Kinky Boots

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Blank, Matthew (August 5, 2015). "Watch Billy Porter Take a Bow in His Hometown as He Joins the National Tour of Kinky Boots!". Playbill. Archived from the original on September 16, 2015 . Retrieved August 29, 2015. Beard, Lanford (November 28, 2013). "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2013: EW's Minute-by-minute Rundown". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on November 28, 2013 . Retrieved November 29, 2013. Ishwerwood, Charles (February 21, 1013). "Hard Times Come Again, With Song". The New York Times. New York Times. Archived from the original on November 6, 2017 . Retrieved May 22, 2017. In November 2019, Kinky Boots premiered as part of the onboard entertainment for Norwegian Encore, a cruise ship in the Norwegian Cruise Line fleet. [105] Argentina [ edit ]

In Lauper's first effort at writing for the stage, she found that it required a sustained effort to write songs for the different characters. [23] Lauper joked about the difficulty of writing her first score: "How much of a stretch is it for me to write songs about fashion, funny relationships, people changing their minds and shoes?" [9] The first song that Lauper wrote was the opening number, which included a wide range of voices. [18] Her process was to conceive a song and sing it into her iPhone, and orchestrator Stephen Oremus would write it down. [9] Oremus would then "'blow up' the vocal line into harmonies, create the incidental music that linked scenes and songs" and orchestrate the material. [24] The songs range in style "from pop to funk to new wave to tango, with highly personal lyrics". [11] New York Times critic Melena Ryzik wrote: "Though there are plenty of hooky, rousing numbers, the emotional heart of Kinky Boots is several ballads about the weight of parental expectations." [11] The musical uses a twelve-piece orchestra consisting of keyboards, percussion, bass, guitars, reeds, violin, viola, cello, trumpet, and trombone. [25] [26] Gans, Andrew (May 13, 2013). " Pippin Is Big Winner of 2012-13 Outer Critics Circle Awards". Playbill . Retrieved May 13, 2013.

Tanaka, Nobuko (July 14, 2016). "Teppei Koike and Haruma Miura strut proudly onto the stage in 'Kinky Boots' ". The Japan Times. Archived from the original on August 16, 2018 . Retrieved August 15, 2018. The show is based on the 2005 film of the same name. The film written by Geoff Deane and Tim Firth is inspired by the true story of the young owner of a struggling shoe factory in northern England who found an unlikely business partner which changed his life forever. a b Jones, Chris (June 28, 2012). " Kinky Boots Announces Full Cast". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on November 9, 2013 . Retrieved November 10, 2013.

Kahn, Robert (April 5, 2013). "Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein Don Their Kinky Boots". WNBC-TV. Archived from the original on December 16, 2013 . Retrieved December 16, 2013.Kinky Boots was given a reading on October 6, 2011. [20] Lauper was actively engaged in refining the material once the cast began readings. [11] In January 2012, Roth announced that the show would be workshopped that month, and that Stark Sands and Billy Porter had been cast in the starring roles. [21] [22] In August 2012, the producers announced the Broadway opening date of April 4, 2013. [10] Synopsis [ edit ] Act 1 [ edit ]

McNamara, Catherine (2009). The Constitution of Transgender Masculinities through Performance. Queen Mary, University of London. pp.137–151. The musical makes Charlie seem less of a drip than he was in the movie. This is partly because Cyndi Lauper’s score and Fierstein’s book heighten the parallels between Charlie and Lola, both the victim of paternal expectations who here get to sing a touching duet, Not My Father’s Son. It also helps that, as Charlie, Killian Donnelly – lately impressive in Memphis – succeeds in making ordinariness interesting. The one moment that defeats even Donnelly is an improbable tirade against Lola and his kind that seems inserted just to prove the persistence of antiquated attitudes to gender illusion. DidHeLikeIt.com (August 7, 2015). "Did he like it". DidHeLikeIt.com . Retrieved August 7, 2015. [ dead link] On July 7, 2017 a Polish production premiered at Teatr Dramatyczny in Warsaw, with Krzysztof Szczepaniak as Lola and Mateusz Weber as Charlie. [100] Kinky Boots in Hamburg, Germany (May 2018). Purcell, Carey (9 June 2013). "Kinky Boots, Vanya and Sonia, Pippin and Virginia Woolf? Are Big Winners at 67th Annual Tony Awards". Playbill. Archived from the original on 11 June 2013 . Retrieved 13 June 2013.Broadway Box Office Grosses". Broadwayworld.com. Archived from the original on December 19, 2013 . Retrieved December 18, 2013. Gans, Andrew (May 17, 2013). " Kinky Boots, Pippin, Vanya and Sonia, Virginia Woolf and More Win Drama League Awards". Playbill. Archived from the original on June 15, 2013 . Retrieved May 17, 2013. A West End Original Cast Recording was recorded live at the Adelphi Theatre and released April 1, 2016. [160] The West End cast recording was nominated for a 2017 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. [161] Collaboration [ edit ] Kinky Boots to release West End cast recording". whatsonstage.com. What's On Stage. March 4, 2016. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016 . Retrieved March 11, 2016. Initially planned to run from June to September 2015 at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, with a mostly Canadian cast, [70] by the beginning of July, the run was extended to November. [71] The run was later extended to January 3, to March 6 and finally to May 15, 2016, [72] [73] as the final show before the theatre closed for a major renovation. [74] West End [ edit ]

It’s currently playing at Adelphi Theatre on The Strand. The nearest stations to the show are Charing Cross (350m), Covent Garden (500m) or Embankment (500m). You can also get to the Adelphi Theatre via overground train to London Charing Cross (350m). Will Kinky Boots be touring? Kinky Boots ' West End Cast". whatsonstage.com. April 23, 2015. Archived from the original on August 21, 2015 . Retrieved August 7, 2015. In the film's denouement, Lola headlines her own show and sings a song in honour of the "kinky boots factory" of Northampton. Most of the key workers are in attendance and enjoying themselves, including Charlie and Lauren, who have become a couple. Charlie Price has reluctantly inherited a struggling shoe business from his ‎dad, which he’s desperate to save. He unexpectedly bumps into a larger-than-life drag queen Lola, who’s looking for some sturdy stilettos. They think they’ve nothing in common, but as the unlikely pair ruffle a few feathers, designing some fabulous footwear for the factory floor, perhaps they do…

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Kinky Boots Musical Comes To London". bbc.co.uk/news. BBC News. February 6, 2015. Archived from the original on February 6, 2015 . Retrieved February 6, 2015. a b c d " Kinky Boots Chicago Premiere: Cyndi Lauper, Harvey Fierstein Musical Begins Pre-Broadway Run". The Huffington Post. October 2, 2012. Archived from the original on October 4, 2012 . Retrieved October 5, 2012. A Filipino production, staged by Atlantis Theatrical, ran from June to July 2017, with Nyoy Volante as Lola and Laurence Mossman as Charlie Price. [95] It was revived for a limited run in March 2018. [96]