Kinky Boots: Still Stunningly Flashy
Kinky Boots is a stunningly flashy Broadway musical that tugs on the heartstrings with its equally stunning clichés. With its plot originally conceived as a British film in 2005, the stage production was not produced until 2012 and was based on the book written by Harvey Fierstein. Furthermore, the show did not find its way to Broadway until 2013. When it debuted, the show opened to critical acclaim with Billy Porter and Stark Sands originating the roles of lead characters Lola and Charlie. Since its Broadway debut, Kinky Boots has been a smashing commercial success. Over the years, Kinky Boots has swapped out the actors in its cast many times. However, the original leading actors of the show, Billy Porter and Stark Sands, have returned once again to play Lola and Charlie in 2017.
Kinky Boots, directed by Jerry Mitchell with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper, follows the story of Charlie Price when he inherits his family’s shoe factory from his father. The factory has fallen on hard times with sales reaching depressing lows and the factory bleeding cash flow. All seems lost until Charlie has a fateful meeting with drag performer Lola, who inspires Charlie to reinvent the factory and produce a new line of high-heeled boots in an unlikely partnership. Tensions mount and personalities clash as their production deadline nears, but in the end the partners realize that they have more in common than meets the eye.
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His tiny feet, encased in short black boots with steel buckles, would have neatly fitted into a delicate lady 's dancing slippers; when he stood up, he was no taller than a twelve-year-old child, and suddenly looked, strutting on stunted legs that seemed grotesquely inadequate to the grown-up bulk they supported, not like a well-built truck driver but like a retired jockey, overblown and muscle-bound, pg 15
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