Kinky Boots (musical)

Kinky Boots

Chicago preview promotional poster
Music Cyndi Lauper
Lyrics Cyndi Lauper
Book Harvey Fierstein
Basis 2005 film Kinky Boots
Premiere October 2012: Bank of America Theatre, Chicago
Productions 2012 Chicago
2013 Broadway
2014 US Tour
2014 South Korea
2015 Toronto
2015 West End
International productions
Awards Tony Award for Best Musical
Tony Award for Best Original Score
Tony Award for Best Choreography
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical

Kinky Boots is a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Tony, Emmy and Grammy-winner Cyndi Lauper and a book by Tony-winner Harvey Fierstein. Based on the 2005 film Kinky Boots by Geoff Deane and Tim Firth, which was inspired by true events, the musical tells the story of Charlie Price, who inherits a shoe factory from his father. To save the business, Charlie forms an unlikely partnership with cabaret performer and drag queen, Lola. With Lola's help, Charlie develops a plan to produce a line of high-heeled boots. In the process, he 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 Chicago in October 2012, with both direction and choreography by Jerry Mitchell, and starring Stark Sands and Billy Porter as Charlie and Lola, respectively. It made its Broadway debut at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on April 4, 2013 following previews that began on March 3, 2013. The musical began its US tour in 2014.

Having been less well received by theatre critics and at the box office, initially, than another 2013 Broadway production, Matilda the Musical, Kinky Boots entered the 2013 awards season as an underdog. 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. The production earned a season-high 13 nominations and 6 Tony wins, including Best Musical and Best Score for Lauper in her first outing as a Broadway songwriter, making her the first woman to win alone in that category. The musical's cast album premiered at number one on the Billboard Cast Albums Chart and number fifty-one on the Billboard 200 chart. In 2016, it won three Laurence Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical.

Background and creation

Harvey Fierstein wrote the book of the musical.

Kinky Boots is based on the 2005 British film of the same name,[1] which was, in turn, inspired by a 1999 episode of the BBC2 documentary television series Trouble at the Top. 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".[2][3] Daryl Roth, a Tony Award-winning producer,[4] saw the film at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and fell in love with its "heart and soul". She felt that its themes resonated and thought that the story had potential as source material for a musical. 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."[5] 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.[6][7]

By mid-2008, Roth and Luftig were in discussions with a potential director, Jerry Mitchell, but they still had not found writers.[8] When Roth sent Mitchell the DVD of the film, he was enthusiastic about it.[9] Roth and Luftig hired Mitchell to direct and Harvey Fierstein to write the book.[6][10] Mitchell knew that Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper were friends, and he thought they would make a good team to create the musical.[9] Fierstein agreed and eventually approached Lauper to write the songs[3] because he "saw in the adaptation an opportunity to work with someone with a big musical range, 'somebody who could write club music,' ... along with show tunes."[11] Lauper joined the creative team in June 2010.[12] Lauper's last project before Kinky Boots had been the album Memphis Blues, while Fierstein was working on Newsies when he began Kinky Boots.[11] The work marked Lauper's debut as a musical theatre songwriter,[10] although she had some theatrical experience, having performed on Broadway in the 2006 Roundabout Theatre Company production of The Threepenny Opera.[13] Among Fierstein's prior experiences were works about drag queens: La Cage aux Folles and Torch Song Trilogy.[14] Lauper has said that she identifies with drag queens.[15]

Lauper wrote the songs for the show.

Fierstein and Lauper had both gained previous critical acclaim and honors in their respective fields. Fierstein had won four Tonys: acting and writing awards for Torch Song Trilogy, an acting Tony for Hairspray, and one for writing the book of La Cage; Lauper is a chart-topping singer-songwriter and actress who had won Grammy, Emmy and many other awards for her songs and performances.[16][17][18] Fierstein noted a change in focus between the film "about the saving of a factory" and the musical, which include "drag queens singing as they pass along the assembly line."[3][9] He said the main difference is that the musical is, "at its core, about two young men who come from seemingly opposite worlds who figure out that they have a lot in common, beginning with the need to stand up to their dads."[9] Lauper's inspirations ranged from listening as a child to her parents' recordings of South Pacific and West Side Story, as well as musical inspirations as diverse as Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" and pop singer Lana Del Rey.[11] In a broadcast interview with Patrick Healy of The New York Times, Lauper and Fierstein said that, in adapting the film, they stressed themes of community and the universality of the father-son bond as vehicles to explore the issues of tolerance and self-acceptance.[19]

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

Act I

Charlie Price grows up as the fourth-generation "son" in his family business, Price & Son, a shoe factory in Northampton. Another young boy, growing up in London, is as fascinated by shoes as Charlie is bored by them, but in this case it is a pair of red women's heels that have attracted his attention, aggravating his strict father. Years pass. Charlie's father is aging and hopes that Charlie will take over the factory, but Charlie is eager to move to London with his status-conscious fiancée, Nicola, and pursue a career in real estate ("The Most Beautiful Thing").

Charlie has barely made it into his new flat in London when his father dies suddenly. Charlie hurries home for the funeral, where he finds the factory near bankruptcy. The factory makes good quality men's shoes, but they are not stylish and not cheap, and the market for them is drying up. Charlie is determined to save the factory and his father's legacy, though he has no desire to run Price & Sons himself. The workers, many of whom have known Charlie his entire life, do not understand why Charlie had moved away in the first place, and many are hostile and skeptical of the new management.

Returning to London, Charlie meets his friend and fellow shoe salesman Harry, in a pub, to ask for help with the factory. Harry can only offer a temporary solution and advises Charlie not to fight the inevitable ("Take What You Got"). Leaving the pub, Charlie witnesses a woman being accosted by two drunks. He intervenes and is knocked unconscious. He comes to in a seedy nightclub, where the woman he attempted to rescue is revealed to have been the club's drag-queen headliner, Lola, who performs with her backup troupe of drag dancers, the "angels" ("Land of Lola"). Recuperating from his ordeal in Lola's dressing room, an uncomfortable Charlie notices that the performers' high-heeled boots are not designed to hold a man's weight, but Lola explains that the expensive and unreliable footwear is an essential part of any drag act.

Charlie returns to the factory and begins reluctantly laying off his workers. Lauren, one of the women on the assembly line, explodes at Charlie when given her notice, and stubbornly tells him that other struggling shoe factories have survived by entering an "underserved niche market". This gives Charlie an idea ("Land of Lola" reprise), and he invites Lola to come to the factory to help him design a women's boot that can be comfortable for a man ("Charlie's Soliloquy"/"Step One").

Lola and the angels arrive at the factory, and she is immediately unsatisfied with Charlie's first design of the boot. Quickly getting the women of the factory on her side, she draws a quick design of a boot, explaining the most important factor is by far the sex appeal ("The Sex is in the Heel"). George, the factory manager, realizes a way to make her design practical, and an impressed Charlie begs Lola to stay until a prestigious footwear show in Milan in three weeks' time, to design a new line of "kinky boots" that could save the factory. Lola is reluctant, since she is already receiving crass comments from some of the factory workers, but is flattered by Charlie's praise, and finally agrees.

Charlie announces that the factory will be moving ahead with production on the boots. He thanks Lauren for giving him the idea, and offers her a promotion. She accepts, and is horrified but thrilled to realize she is falling for him ("The History of Wrong Guys").

The next day, Lola shows up in men's clothes and is mocked by the foreman, Don, and his friends. An upset Lola takes refuge in the bathroom, and Charlie attempts to comfort her. Lola explains that her father trained her as a boxer, but disowned her when she showed up for a match in drag. The two discover their similarly complex feelings toward their fathers, and Lola introduces herself by her birth name: Simon ("Not My Father's Son").

Nicola arrives from London, and presents Charlie with a plan for the factory that her boss has drawn up: closing it and converting it into condominiums. Charlie refuses, but is shocked to discover that his father had agreed to this plan before he died, presumably because Charlie was not there to run it. He refuses to sell, and soon the workers are celebrating as the first pair of "kinky boots" is finished ("Everybody Say Yeah").

Act II

Many of the factory workers are not enthusiastic about the radical change in their product line. Some of them, especially the intimidating Don, make Lola feel very unwelcome. Lola taunts him back, enlisting the help of the female factory workers to prove that Lola is closer to a woman's ideal man than Don ("What a Woman Wants"). Lola presents Don with a unique wager to see who is the better "man": Lola will do any one thing that Don specifies if Don will do one thing that Lola specifies. Don's challenge is for Lola to fight him in a boxing match at the pub. Charlie, remembering Lola's background, is horrified. Lola easily scores against Don in the ring but ultimately lets Don win the match ("In This Corner"). Afterwards, in private, Don asks why she let him win, and Lola replies that she could not be so cruel as to humiliate Don in front of his mates. She gives him her part of the challenge: "accept someone for who they are."

Charlie is pouring his own money into the factory to ensure it will be ready in time for Milan, and he is getting frantic that the product is not right, angrily forcing his staff to redo what he considers to be shoddy work. Nicola arrives, fed up with Charlie's obsession over the factory, and breaks up with him. Lola has been making some decisions about production and preparations without consulting Charlie. When he discovers that she has decided to have her angels wear the boots on the runway rather than hiring professional models, an overwhelmed Charlie lashes out at her, humiliating her in front of the other workers. Lola storms out, and the factory workers go home. Alone, Charlie struggles with the weight of his father's legacy and what it means to be his own man ("Soul of a Man").

Lauren finds Charlie and tells him to come back to the factory. It is revealed that Don has persuaded all the workers to return to work and to sacrifice a week's pay to ensure the boots can be finished in time for Milan. Charlie is astonished and grateful, and asks if Don has paid up on his wager by accepting Lola. Lauren explains that the person that Don has accepted is Charlie himself.

As he heads to the airport for Milan, Charlie leaves a heartfelt apology on Lola's voicemail. Meanwhile, Lola performs her act at a nursing home in her home town. After she leaves the stage, she speaks to her now wheelchair-bound father, who is dying in the home, and reaches a sense of closure ("Hold Me in Your Heart").

Charlie and Lauren arrive in Milan, but without models Charlie is forced to walk the runway himself. Lauren is thrilled by his dedication ("The History of Wrong Guys (Reprise)") but the show threatens to be a disaster. Just as all seems lost, Lola and her angels arrive to save the day. Lauren and Charlie share their first kiss, and the whole company celebrates the success of the "Kinky Boots" ("Raise You Up/Just Be").

Music

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]

Musical numbers

The musical numbers from the 2013 Broadway production are as follows:

Act I
  • "Price & Son Theme/The Most Beautiful Thing" – Mr. Price, Young Charlie, Young Simon/Lola, Nicola, Charlie & Company
  • "Take What You Got" – Harry, Charlie & Club Patrons
  • "Land of Lola" – Lola & Angels
  • "Land of Lola" (Reprise)[27] – Lola & Angels‡
  • "Charlie's Soliloquy" – Charlie
  • "Step One" – Charlie
  • "Sex is in the Heel" – Lola, Pat, George, Angels, Lauren, Charlie & Factory Workers
  • "The History of Wrong Guys" – Lauren
  • "Not My Father's Son" – Lola & Charlie
  • "Everybody Say Yeah" – Charlie, Lola, Lauren, Angels & Factory Workers
Act II
  • "Price & Son Theme" (Reprise) – Company‡
  • "What a Woman Wants" – Lola, Pat, Don, George & the Ladies of the Factory
  • "In This Corner" – Lola, Don, Pat, Trish, Angels & Factory Workers
  • "Charlie's Soliloquy" (Reprise) – Charlie
  • "Soul of a Man" – Charlie
  • "Hold Me in Your Heart" – Lola
  • "The History of Wrong Guys" (Reprise) – Lauren
  • "Raise You Up/Just Be" – Company

‡Song not included on original Broadway cast album.

The musical numbers from the 2012 Chicago production are as follows:

Act I
  • "Price & Son Theme" – Full Company
  • "The Most Beautiful Thing" - Full Company
  • "Take What You Got" – Harry, Charlie & Club Patrons
  • "Land of Lola" – Lola & Angels
  • "Beware The Black Widow" - Lola & Angels
  • "I Come To The Rescue" - Charlie
  • "Sex is in the Heel" – Lola, Pat, George, Angels, & Factory Workers
  • "The History of Wrong Guys" – Lauren
  • "Not My Father's Son" – Lola & Charlie
  • "Everybody Say Yeah" – Charlie, Lola, Lauren, Angels & Factory Workers
Act II
  • "Price & Son Theme" (reprise) – Company
  • "What a Woman Wants" – Lola, Pat, Don, George & the Ladies of the Factory
  • "In This Corner" – Lola, Don, Pat, Trish, Angels & Factory Workers
  • "So Long, Charlie" - Nicola
  • "Soul of a Man" – Charlie
  • "Hold Me in Your Heart" – Lola
  • "Raise You Up/Just Be" – Full Company

Principal roles and original casts

Character Original Broadway Cast[26] Current Broadway Cast Original US Tour Cast[28] Original Toronto Cast Original South Korean Cast[29] Original West End Cast
Charlie Price Stark Sands Andy Kelso Steven Booth Graham Scott Fleming Kim Moo-yul, Ji Hyun-woo, Yoon So-ho Killian Donnelly
Lola/Simon Billy Porter Alan Mingo Jr Kyle Taylor Parker Alan Mingo Jr. Oh Man-seok, Kang Hong-seok Matt Henry
Lauren Annaleigh Ashford Jeanna de Waal Lindsay Nicole Chambers A.J Bridel Jung Sun-ah, Choi Yu-ha Amy Lennox
Nicola Lena Hall[30] Cortney Wolfson Grace Stockdale Vanessa Sears Lee Yea-eun Amy Ross
Harry Andy Kelso Jake Odmark Mike Longo Patrick Cook Seo Seung-won Paul Ayres
Mr. Price Stephen Berger David McDonald Sandy Winsby Cho Jung-keun Alan Vicary
Simon Sr. Eugene Barry-Hill Horace V. Rogers Jivaro Smith Lee Sang-jun Robert Grose
Don Daniel Sherman Joe Coots Daniel Williston Go Chang-suk, Shim Jae-hyun Jamie Baughan
George Marcus Neville Craig Waletzko James Kall Lee Woo-seung Michael Hobbs
Pat Tory Ross Natalie Joy Johnson Bonnie Milligan Kristen Peace Kim Ki-jung Chloe Hart
Trish Jennifer Perry Amelia Cormack Nicola Dawn Brook Jang Ye-won Gillian Hardie
Richard Bailey John Jeffrey Martin Ross Lekites Justin Stadnyk Choo Yean-sung Michael Vinsen
Milan Stage Manager Adinah Alexander Anne Tolpegin Lisa Horner Choi Yu-jin Verity Quade
Young Charlie Sebastian Hedges Thomas Jake Katzman
Graham Montgomery		 Anthony Picarello Arden Couturier, Eric LeClair Choi Min-young, Yoon Yea-dam Beau Cripps, Ben Dawson, Edward Green
Young Simon Marquise Neal Jeremy T. Villas
Douglas Baldeo		 Andrew Theo Johnson Isiah Slater, Kaden Stevens Oh Ji-hwan, Tang Joon-sang, Lee Tae-kyung Nana Agyeman-Bediako, James Gava, Tumo Reetsang
Maggie Caroline Bowman Anna Eilinsfeld Blair Goldberg Erica Peck Lee Song Bleu Woodward

Broadway replacements:

Production history

Chicago and Broadway

On February 6, 2012, the Chicago Tribune reported that Kinky Boots' producers were considering taking advantage of an incentive program from the State of Illinois for out-of-town tryouts for Broadway shows.[36] The October 2012 pre-Broadway Chicago tryout was announced on February 22, 2012.[37][38] On June 28, 2012 the full Chicago cast was announced.[39] The production was rehearsed at the New 42nd Street Studios in New York City in September 2012. The show began its pre-Broadway run at the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago, on October 2, 2012, which continued until November 4, 2012.[9][17][40] The show was directed and choreographed by Mitchell; scenic design was by David Rockwell, costumes by Gregg Barnes, lighting by Kenneth Posner and sound by John Shivers. The music director and orchestrator was Stephen Oremus. The director and design team had gained previous critical acclaim and theatre or music awards. Mitchell had won a Tony Award for choreographing the 2005 revival of La Cage aux Folles; Barnes and Posner had won Tonys; and Rockwell had been nominated for Tonys and other theatre awards.[16][17][18]

Mitchell and Rockwell had previously collaborated on Hairspray, Catch Me If You Can and Legally Blonde.[41] Mitchell told The New York Times that the "Everybody Say Yeah" scene, in which the cast celebrates the creation of the first pair of Kinky Boots with a choreographed celebration on conveyor belts, required repeated innovations and adjustments like the eventual addition of safety rails and actor controls for the apparatus.[42] Designer Derek McLane commented that it is not uncommon for repeat choreographer/set designer collaborations to result in intriguing innovation like the conveyor belt dance scene in Kinky Boots. McLane was impressed with the "series of conveyor belts that came apart, moved around, and fit the context of the story" in order to accentuate the choreography of "a troupe of men in four-inch heels". With respect to the conveyor belts, he said, "They've never been used as dynamically as this, creating a series of surprises, with the kind of wild athleticism that actually looks dangerous. It's one of the more thrilling combinations of stage design and choreography that I can recall."[41]

Kinky Boots on the marquee of the Al Hirschfeld Theatre

After the tryout, the team went back to work, adding a new musical number for Charlie and a second song in the drag club, removing another song, and revising the book.[3] The Broadway debut started previews on March 3, 2013 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, with the official opening on April 4, 2013.[43][44] Both the Chicago and original Broadway casts starred Billy Porter as Lola, Stark Sands as Charlie and Annaleigh Ashford as Lauren.[17][39] Porter, in particular, was singled out for critical praise.[45][46]

The New York Times noted that in the 2012–13 season, most of the new Broadway musicals were "inspired by movies or books".[10] The paper found the show timely for its treatment of problems that paralleled those at the time of its production, including "chronic unemployment, financial distress and the collapse of manufacturing".[44] Prior to the June 9, 2013 Tony Awards, Kinky Boots had trailed its box office competitor, Matilda the Musical,[47] in advance sales.[48] However, less than a month after opening, Kinky Boots surpassed this rival in weekly box office gross.[49] Kinky Boots won a season-high six Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The next day, the show sold $1.25 million tickets, and its advance ticket sales for future dates became a hot commodity.[48] In the weeks following its Tony wins, the show became so popular that in the beginning of July a special ticket lottery system was created to keep fans from camping outside the theatre.[50] Kinky Boots set a new box-office record at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre,[51] and "recouped its $13.5 million capitalization in a relatively quick 30 weeks of performances",[52] which was "faster than any big budget musical in recent history."[53][54] In October 2013, Kinky Boots had the second highest premium-price tickets on Broadway behind only The Book of Mormon.[52] As of 4 February 2015, the show had grossed just over $135 million.[55]

On November 28, 2013, members of the cast performed the finale of the show in the nationally televised Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Many viewers commented that, in their opinion, the performance was inappropriate for a family program.[56][57] Fierstein responded that the show's inclusion in the parade reflected decreasing prejudice and increased tolerance for LGBT people in society.[58] The August 26, 2015 performance marked the 1000th Broadway performance for the production.[59]

Kinky Boots the Musical at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto, Canada June 2015 to May 2016.

Canadian Production

The Toronto Original Cast, led by Alan Mingo Jr as Lola and Graham Scott Fleming as Charlie, began rehearsals with Jerry Mitchel and the Broadway creative team on May 4, 2015. It began previews on June16th 2015 with its opening night coming on June 28 to critical acclaim. The opening night also coincided with the announcement of same sex marriages being legally accepted in the US. A very poignant link with the sentiment of Kinky Boots and it's phrase 'Just Be' and it's 6 step program. Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein, Jerry Mitchel and the Broadway creative team joined the cast onstage at the Royal Alexander Theatre on a joyous opening night.

Initially planned to run from June to September 2015 at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, with a mostly Canadian cast.[60] By the beginning of July, the run was extended to November.[61] The run was later extended to January 3, to March 6 and finally to May 15, 2016.[62][63]

On March 13 Alan Mingo Jr and Vanessa Sears played their final shows. Alan Mingo Jr taking over from Wayne Brady in the Broadway production on March 27, 2016 and being replaced, in Toronto by Kyle Taylor Parker. Vanessa Sears, who played Nicola, being replaced by Elena Juatco.

West End

In January 2014, it was revealed Mitchell was planning a West End production and was negotiating to secure a theatre for 2015.[64] On 6 February 2015, it was confirmed the musical would begin previews at the Adelphi Theatre in London, on 21 August 2015, with its official opening night coming on 15 September.[65] Tickets went on sale on 2 March.[66] On 23 April 2015, it was confirmed that Killian Donnelly and Matt Henry would play Charlie and Lola respectively, with other cast members including Amy Lennox as Lauren, Amy Ross as Nicola, Jamie Baughan as Don and Michael Hobbs as George.[67] The West End production became London's first paperless and mobile ticketing operation.[68] Although the show is set in a British Northampton neighborhood, it took a concerted effort to remove Americanisms from the production after its West End spinoff from the Broadway production.[69] In August 2015, booking was extended to February 6, 2016.[70] In October 2015, booking was extended to May 28, 2016.[71] Booking was extended to September 24, 2016 in January 2016.[72] On April 11, 2016, it was extended through 14 January 2017.[73]

Other productions

A US national tour began at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas on September 4, 2014.[74] The role of Lola is set to be played by Kyle Taylor Parker.[75] Porter took a week off from the Broadway production to perform with the National tour when it visited his home town of Pittsburgh from August 4 through August 9, 2015 at the Benedum Center.[76]

A South Korean production is planned to run from December 2, 2014 to February 22, 2015 at the Chungmu Art Hall (충무아트홀 대극장) in Seoul.[77]

The Melbourne production is set to open in October 2016 at the Her Majesty's Theatre and casting is expected to be announced.[78] The cast will include Callum Francis, from the London production as Lola, Toby Francis as Charlie. Joining them are Sophie Wright (Lauren), Damien Bermingham (Don), Teagan Wouters (Nicola) and Nathan Carter (George).[79]

Malmö Opera House will open its 2016/17 season with the Scandinavian premiere of Kinky Boots on September the 3rd 2016.[80] It will be sung in Swedish.

Critical reaction

Upon its October 2012 Chicago opening, Chicago Tribune critic Chris Jones described the show as a "warm, likable, brassy, sentimental, big-hearted and modestly scaled" production.[81] Another reviewer praised the score, book, direction and, particularly, Porter, before suggesting that, before opening on Broadway, it could use a more effective opening number, better pacing in Act 2 and "the budding romance between Charlie and coworker Lauren ... needs more lead-in. In other words, give Ashford, a clear crowd favorite, more to do".[46]

The musical's Broadway debut received mixed to positive reviews.[82] The show was awarded a "Critic's Pick" designation by The New York Times, Time Out New York and New York Magazine, and was included in Entertainment Weekly magazine's "Must See" list.[83]

Ben Brantley of The New York Times gave a warm review, calling it "inspired" and comparing the work to other successful recent Broadway musicals: "Like The Full Monty (choreographed by Mr. Mitchell) and Billy Elliot the Musical, it is set in a hard-times British factory town, where jobs are in jeopardy and spirits need lifting. Like La Cage aux Folles and Priscilla Queen of the Desert, it presents drag queens as the show’s official spirit lifters. And like Hairspray, the musical this production most resembles in tone, Kinky Boots is about finding your passion, overcoming prejudice and transcending stereotypes."[84] Brantley wrote that Lauper's "love- and heat-seeking score" wowed with her "trademark ... mix of sentimentality and eccentricity", and that the costumes and boots courtesy of Gregg Barnes made for "big red scene stealers". He also praised “Raise You Up/Just Be,” as "one of the best curtain numbers since 'You Can’t Stop the Beat' sent Hairspray audiences dancing out of the theater.” Brantley, however, did not extend his praise to Fierstein's script, writing that his "sticky, sermonizing side" comes through in the second half, where "all the clichés stand naked before you."[84]

The theatre critic for Time Out New York called the show "the very model of a modern major musical."[85] The Associated Press termed it "a big ol’ sweet love story about sons, the families we make and red patent leather. ... Thank goodness for Harvey Fierstein – he spins theatrical magic", but noted that "the second half is almost completely unnecessary, the English accents are laughable and the footwear puns are relentless."[86] Entertainment Weekly said "Cyndi Lauper's infectious score is cause for celebration."[87] New York Magazine,[88] The New York Post,[89] The Washington Post[90] and Variety all gave mostly favorable reviews.[91]

Los Angeles Times theater critic Charles McNulty criticized Lauper's "novice mistakes" with a score that "never establishes a compositional through line" and saying that while "Fierstein's heart is in the right place ... the show's earnestness sinks it", adding that "if [the show] weren't such a cheesy commercial mess, it might actually be fun".[92] Joe Dziemianowicz of the New York Daily News wrote that while the "script has issues like a pair of shoes" that don't quite fit, "Mitchell's production moves lickety-split" and "Porter ... is a force of nature as Lola." But, he added, Lauper's "multicolored, surprising and fun" score outshines the fancy footwear and proves to be the "real star of this show".[45] Writing for The Guardian, David Cote noted that the decision to use American actors for an adaptation that maintained the Northampton setting resulted in a disconcerting inconsistency in terms of accents.[93] The Wall Street Journal gave the show a negative review, calling it "an imitation heart-warming British working-class musical with a gay angle and a maudlin ending. ... Kinky Boots is its own spoiler alert, the kind of musical in which you recite the dialogue a half-beat ahead of the actors. ... [the score] sounds like ... "Cyndi: The Deservedly Forgotten Late-'80s B-Sides."[94] A review in The Bergen Record said that the show "sorely lacks is a dramatic commitment to what it's doing. Which is why a show that seems to make few false steps is so relentlessly tedious," calling it "dull" and "synthetic".[95] Talkin' Broadway also gave the show a negative review.[96] The Village Voice,[97] AM New York,[98] and NBC turned in lukewarm reviews.[99]

In 2014, Kinky Boots began a United States national tour, which has also garnered mostly positive reviews.[100] Democrat and Chronicle[101] raved, “Flashy, funny and uplifting, Kinky Boots has appeal — and lots of it — for all ‘ladies, gentleman and those who are yet to make up their mind.’” BroadwayWorld Los Angeles[102] offered “praise to the entire triple threat ensemble!“ The Republic[103] countered, “Despite the fiery showstopper "Sex Is in the Heel," however, "Kinky Boots" is surprisingly short on sex appeal, and the cheerleaderish troupe of drag queens called Angels don't have any of the transgressive appeal of the Cagelles from Fierstein's earlier hit "La Cage aux Folles." CBS Minnesota[104] summed it up as “loud, proud and a tubular sensation.”

In Toronto, Canada, Kinky Boots opened on June 28 to critical acclaim. The Globe and Mail writing "Exuberant! Inspired! Terrific! Splendid fun! Excellent Canadian Cast...A tour de force!". The Toronto Star wrote "Kinky Boots is the spectacular celebration of song, dance and comedy you've got to enjoy this summer. Cue the dancing in the street. Bravo!". National Post said " THE BEST! The most inventive musical I've seen in ages. Joyous! Ingenious! Very funny!". And TVO stated "A complete triumph. One of the best musicals I've ever seen. Kinky Boots is crazy good."

The London production received mostly raves, with the London Evening Standard writing, "The thigh's the limit for this high-kicking London musical," calling it "a glorious high-kicking romp," and adding that "...its energy is infectious."[105] Time Out London called it "dazzling, fabulously sassy and uplifting," explaining "It's not all glitz and high-kicks...there are some grittier moments that give the show an edgier feel."[106] And Digital Spy proclaimed it "hilarious, heartwarming, and a hell of a lot of fun," offering special praise for the show's star: "Matt Henry...truly steals the show...He is utterly commanding in the role, and you instantly root for him."[107]

Awards and nominations

Matilda had been the pre-Award season favorite, but as the season progressed, it became clear that Kinky Boots and the revival of Pippin would provide serious competition.[108] Early in the 2013 awards season, Kinky Boots did well, receiving Drama League Award nominations for Distinguished Production of a Musical and Distinguished Performance, for both Porter and Sands,[109] and winning for Distinguished Production.[110] The show received nine Outer Critics Circle Award nominations, winning three, including Outstanding New Broadway Musical, Outstanding New Score and Outstanding Actor in a Musical (Porter).[111] The musical received only two Drama Desk Award nominations, however, and only one win: Porter for Outstanding Actor in a Musical.[112] New York Times theatre writer Patrick Healy, however, reported that some Tony voters found Matilda "dark" and "a bit chilly", and accurately predicted that "while the cleverness of Matilda may be enough to win best book, the warmth of Kinky Boots will be enough to score an upset and take the top Tony for best musical."[108]

Kinky Boots received a season-high 13 Tony Award nominations.[113] Matilda, which The New York Times described as the "unalloyed critical hit" of the season, received 12 nominations, 11 of them in the same categories as Kinky Boots.[114] In addition to its critical success, Matilda had won the Drama Desk Award for outstanding musical and had set a record by winning the most Olivier Awards in history.[115] Nevertheless, Kinky Boots won a season-high six Tonys, including Best Musical, which the press described as an upset, and Lauper's win for Best Score made her the first woman to win alone in that category.[116] The creative team are Americans, and reviewer David Cote, an American writing in The Guardian, judged that the show's win was a case of "the balance of love going to a homegrown American musical, Kinky Boots, over the British import Matilda."[93] The other Tony wins were for best actor (Porter), sound design (Shivers), choreography (Mitchell) and orchestrations (Oremus). Fierstein, Sands, Ashford, Mitchell (as director) and the three other designers were all nominated but did not win.[113] Kinky Boots also won the 2013 Artios Award for Outstanding Achievement in Casting in the Broadway musical category.[117]

The West End production won the Evening Standard Radio 2 Audience Award for Best New Musical, which was based on voting by the public at the 2015 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.[118] The show earned seven nominations for the 2016 Laurence Olivier Awards, which was second to a revival of Gypsy, which earned eight nominations.[119] Kinky Boots won three Olivier Awards: Best New Musical, Best Actor in a Musical and Best Costume Design, trailing only Gypsy's four awards.[120]

Recordings

A Broadway original cast album, produced by Lauper, Oremus and William Wittman[121] was released on May 28, 2013.[122] It premiered at number one on the Billboard Cast Albums Chart and number fifty-one on the Billboard 200 chart,[123] making it the highest charting Broadway cast recording since The Book of Mormon's album was released two years earlier.[124] Before the Chicago tryout, "Sex Is in the Heel" became the first Broadway song to reach the top 10 of the Billboard club charts in 25 years.[11] "Land of Lola" was released as a dance remix by Wayne G. & LFB in June 2013.[125] The album received a favorable review in Playbill from Steven Suskin[126] and won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.[127]

A West End Original Cast Recording was recorded live at the Adelphi Theatre and released April 1, 2016.[128]

Notes

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  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Jones, Chris (September 27, 2012). "Cyndi Lauper Working Out The Kinks In Kinky Boots". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved October 5, 2012. (subscription required (help)).
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