Kinky Boots

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Kinky Boots is a Tony Award–winning Broadway musical, with music by Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein, about a struggling shoe factory that reinvents itself by producing flamboyant boots for drag performers.

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instanceOf Broadway musical
stage musical
award Drama Desk Award
surface form: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical

Drama League Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play
surface form: Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Musical

Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical NERFINISHED
Tony Award for Best Musical
Tony Award for Best Orchestrations
Tony Award for Best Original Score
basedOn Kinky Boots self-linksurface differs
surface form: Kinky Boots (2005 film)

true story of a British shoe factory
bookBy Harvey Fierstein
BroadwayOpeningDate 2013-04-04
BroadwayPerformances 2507
BroadwayRunEnd 2019-04-07
BroadwayRunStart 2013-04-04
BroadwayTheatre Al Hirschfeld Theatre
castAlbum Kinky Boots self-linksurface differs
surface form: Kinky Boots (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
castAlbumLabel Masterworks Broadway
castAlbumReleaseDate 2013-05-28
choreographer Jerry Mitchell
composer Cyndi Lauper
director Jerry Mitchell
genre musical theatre
hasProduction West End production
hasTour U.S. national tour
language English
leadCharacter Charlie Price
Don
Lauren
Lola
lyricist Cyndi Lauper
musicSupervisor Stephen Oremus
nominations Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical
Tony Award for Best Choreography
Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Musical
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical NERFINISHED
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Musical NERFINISHED
notableFor Lauper becoming first woman to win Tony Award alone for Best Original Score
first Broadway score written solely by Cyndi Lauper
notableSong Everybody Say Yeah
Land of Lola
Raise You Up / Just Be
Sex Is in the Heel
Take What You Got
The History of Wrong Guys
The Most Beautiful Thing in the World
What a Woman Wants
orchestrator Stephen Oremus
originalCharlieActor Stark Sands
originalDonActor Daniel Stewart Sherman NERFINISHED
originalLaurenActor Annaleigh Ashford
originalLolaActor Billy Porter
originalNicolaActor Celina Carvajal NERFINISHED
premiereDate 2012-10-06
premiereLocation Bank of America Theatre, Chicago
producer Daryl Roth
Hal Luftig
setting Northampton
surface form: Northampton, England
subject drag performers
struggling shoe factory
theme acceptance
family business
gender identity
self-expression
tolerance
tryoutCity City of Chicago
surface form: Chicago
WestEndAward Olivier Award for Best New Musical
WestEndCity London, England
surface form: London
WestEndOpeningDate 2015-09-15
WestEndTheatre Adelphi Theatre

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Kinky Boots basedOn Kinky Boots self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Kinky Boots (2005 film)
Kinky Boots castAlbum Kinky Boots self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Kinky Boots (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
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