Shows · Kinky Boots
Kinky Boots
Opened 2013
2,505 performances
Musical, Modern
Tony Award for Best Musical, 2013
When young Charlie Price inherits his father's struggling Northampton shoe factory, he finds an unlikely savior in Lola, a fabulous drag queen who needs sturdy, stylish high-heeled boots for her cabaret act. Together, the unlikely pair must overcome prejudice and self-doubt as they work to save the factory by designing a dazzling line of kinky boots for an unlikely new market.
- Music
- Cyndi Lauper
- Lyrics
- Cyndi Lauper
- Book
- Harvey Fierstein
Productions1 on Broadway
Songs2 songs
Everybody Say Yeah, Land of Lola
Recordings 3 recordings
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Kinky Boots matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
Kinky Boots is a musical with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper and book by Harvey Fierstein. Based 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. 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. In the process, Charlie and Lola discover that they are not so different after all. Following the show's conception in 2006, the creative team was assembled by 2010. The original production of Kinky Boots premiered at the Bank of America Theatre in Chi…
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