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Lauper's last project before Kinky Boots had been the album Memphis Blues, while Fierstein was working on Newsies when he began Kinky Boots. along with show tunes.' Lauper joined the creative team in June 2010. Fierstein agreed and eventually approached Lauper to write the songs because he 'saw in the adaptation an opportunity to work with someone with a big musical range, 'somebody who could write club music,'. Mitchell knew that Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper were friends, and he thought they would make a good team to create the musical. Roth and Luftig hired Mitchell to direct and Harvey Fierstein to write the book. When Roth sent Mitchell the DVD of the film, he was enthusiastic about it. īy mid-2008, Roth and Luftig were in discussions with a potential director, Jerry Mitchell, but they still had not found writers. Independently, Hal Luftig saw the film in London and agreed 'that its heart and humanity (and bigger-than-life leading 'lady') would translate well to musical theatre.' Within a year, Roth secured the rights to adapt the film to the stage and partnered with Luftig, a Tony and Olivier Award-winning producer. She felt that its themes resonated and thought that the story had potential as source material for a musical. Daryl Roth, a Tony Award-winning producer, saw the film at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and fell in love with its 'heart and soul'. It followed the true story of Steve Pateman, who was struggling to save his family-run shoe factory from closure and decided to produce fetish footwear for men, under the brand name 'Divine Footwear'.

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Kinky Boots is based on the 2005 British film of the same name, which was in turn inspired by a 1999 episode of the BBC2 documentary television series Trouble at the Top. Harvey Fierstein wrote the book of the musical. Making its West End debut in 2015, in 2016, it won three Laurence Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical. The musical's cast album premiered at number one on the Billboard Cast Albums Chart and number fifty-one on the Billboard 200 chart. The production earned a season-high 13 nominations and 6 Tony wins, including Best Musical, Best Actor for Billy Porter and Best Score for Lauper in her first outing as a Broadway songwriter, making her the first woman to win alone in that category. However, less than a month after opening, Kinky Boots surpassed this rival with audiences in weekly box office gross and later enjoyed a post-Tony boost in advance sales. Having initially been less well received by theatre critics and at the box office than another 2013 Broadway production, Matilda the Musical, Kinky Boots entered the 2013 awards season as an underdog. The Broadway production ended on April 7, 2019.

It made its Broadway debut at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on April 4, 2013, following previews that began on March 3, 2013.

The original production of Kinky Boots premiered at the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago in October 2012, with both direction and choreography by Jerry Mitchell, and starring Stark Sands and Billy Porter as Charlie and Lola, respectively. In the process, Charlie and Lola discover that they are not so different after all.įollowing the show's conception in 2006, the creative team was assembled by 2010. Having inherited a shoe factory from his father, Charlie forms an unlikely partnership with cabaret performer and drag queen Lola to produce a line of high-heeled boots and save the business. Kinky Boots is a musical with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper and book by Harvey Fierstein.īased on the 2005 British film Kinky Boots, written by Geoff Deane and Tim Firth and mostly inspired by true events, the musical tells the story of Charlie Price. Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical.

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