After lip syncing for his life, RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars judge and YouTube star Todrick Hall starts performances in Kinky Boots on November 1. He sashays in as Lola for Alan Mingo Jr., who played his last performance on October 30. Hall is scheduled to play a limited engagement at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre through March 5, 2017.
Hall recently concluded the national tour of his show Straight Outta Oz. Prior to his YouTube fame, Hall appeared on Broadway in The Color Purple and Memphis. He has worked with dozens of Main Stem names, including Shoshana Bean and Jay Armstrong Johnson, in his videos. He also collaborated with Joseph Gordon-Levitt on his variety series HitRecord on TV and was a semi-finalist on season nine of American Idol.
Featuring a score by Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein, Kinky Boots follows a struggling shoe factory owner who works to turn his business around with help from a local drag queen. Together, these two become an unstoppable team, and find that they have more in common than they ever dreamed possible.
In addition to Hall, the current cast of Kinky Boots features Aaron C. Finley as Charlie, Haven Burton as Lauren, Shannon O’Boyle as Nicola, Daniel Stewart Sherman as Don and Marcus Neville as George.