Tickets are now available for the fabulous new Broadway musical Kinky Boots. Featuring music and lyrics by Grammy winner Cyndi Lauper and a book by Tony winner Harvey Fierstein, Kinky Boots begins performances on March 5, 2013 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Opening night is set for April 4. The production is directed and choreographed by Tony winner Jerry Mitchell and stars Stark Sands, Annaleigh Ashford and Billy Porter.
Based on the 2005 film and inspired by a true story, Kinky Boots follows Charlie Price (Sands), an aspiring young businessman forced to give up his dreams of living in London in order to save his family’s shoe factory in Northern England after the sudden death of his father. Charlie finds inspiration in Lola (Porter), a fabulous entertainer in need of some sturdy stilettos. As the unlikely pair works to turn the factory around, they find they have more in common than they ever dreamed possible.
In addition to Sands, Ashford and Porter, the cast of Kinky Boots includes Celina Carvajal, Ellyn Marie Marsh, Daniel Sherman, Marcus Neville, Paul Canaan, Kevin Smith Kirkwood, Kyle Taylor Parker, Kyle Post, Charlie Sutton, Joey Taranto, Andy Kelso, Tory Ross, Jen Perry, Josh Caggiano, Aaron Bantum, Adinah Alexander, Eric Anderson, Eugene Barry-Hill, Stephen Berger, Caroline Bowman, Sandra DeNise, Eric Leviton, John Jeffrey Martin, Nathan Peck, Robert Pendilla, Lucia Spina, Sebastian Hedges Thomas, Marquise Neal and Clifton Oliver and Ellyn Marie Marsh.
The Kinky Boots creative team includes scenic designer David Rockwell, costume designer Gregg Barnes, lighting designer Kenneth Posner, sound designer John Shivers and hair designer Josh Marquette. The musical held a pre-Broadway run this October at Chicago’s Bank of America Theatre.
Get a first look at the new musical in the video below.