The run closed April 7, 2019
- Opened
- 2013
- Closed
- April 7, 2019
- Performances
- 2,505
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 4th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it75 named
Celina Carvajal
Daniel Stewart Sherman
Adinah Alexander
Eugene Barry Hill
Stephen Berger
Andy Kelso
Kevin Smith Kirkwood
Eric Leviton
Ellyn Marie Marsh
John Jeffrey Martin
Marquise Neal
Kyle Taylor Parker
Jennifer Perry
Kyle Post
Tory Ross
Charlie Sutton
Joey Taranto
Sebastian Hedges Thomas
Mark Ballas
Killian Donnelly
Aaron C Finley
Callum Francis
Todrick D Hall
Conor Maynard
Brendon Urie
Tiki Barber
Haven Burton
Shannon O Boyle
Carrie St Louis
Cortney Wolfson
Douglas Baldeo
James Delisco Beeks
Callan Bergmann
Damien Brett
Nick Rashad Burroughs
Devin Trey Campbell
Pierce Cassedy
Lauren Nicole Chapman
Cameron Colley
Alfred Dalpino
Anna Eilinsfeld
Ian Gallagher Fitzgerald
Mia Gentile
Gaelen Gilliland
Blair Goldberg
Christopher Gurr
Jaden Jordan
Jake Katzman
Blaine Alden Krauss
Corey Mach
Graham Montgomery
Fred Odgaard
Jake Odmark
Patricia Phillips
Griffin Reese
Eric Lajuan Summers
Stephen Tewksbury
Hernando Umana
Jeremy T Villas
Eric Walker Jr
15 of these 75 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 60 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters12 roles recorded
Steven Booth Charlie Price
Kyle Taylor Parker Lola
Lindsay Nicole Chambers Lauren
Grace Stockdale Nicola
Joe Coots Don
Craig Waletzko George
Bonnie Milligan Pat
Amelia Cormack Trish
Mike Longo Harry
David McDonald Mr. Price
Anthony Picarello Young Charlie
Andrew Theo Johnson Young Lola
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Jerry Mitchell
- Choreographer
- Jerry Mitchell
- Orchestrations
- Stephen Oremus
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 6 from 13 nominations
| Best Musical | Won |
Around this production
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…
Keith Richards came to the show and had a bit of a meet ‘n’ greet with Stark and Billy beforehand. During introductions, he shook hands with Stark and leaned in for a hug and kiss with Billy, assuming he was a woman. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2012 To May 2013 Robert Viagas 9th Annual Ed, p. 215
- none is currently slated for recursive musical film adaptations. Of the most recent Broadway musicals based on films—Once, Bullets over Broadway, Rocky, Ghost, Kinky Boots, Bring It On: The Musical, Legally Blonde: The Musical, Carrie: The Musical— Dominic Mchugh the Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations 2019 Ox, p. 883
- Kinky Boots (2012) 592, 608 Dominic Mchugh the Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations 2019 Ox, p. 948
- Between 2001 and 2014 the majority of new musicals were based on successful movies; these include: ... Kinky Boots, Big Fish and Rocky, The Musical. A History of the American Musical Theatre No Business Like Nathaniel Hurwitz Tay, p. 287
- The same was definitely NOT true for the two main Tony contenders, Matilda (12 nominations) and Kinky Boots (13 nominations), which spent the late spring battling for Best Musical and other top honors. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2012 To May 2013 Robert Viagas 9th Annual Ed, p. 7
- Awards They Should Give: #1 Best New Showtune: Our nominees: “When I Grow Up” from Matilda, “Joy of the Lord” in Hands on a Hardbody, “Sex in the Heel” from Kinky Boots, “The Life That You Wished For” from Chaplin, “You'll Shoot Your Eye Out” from A Christmas Story. “We Are All Shirtless Now” (Men With Their Shirts O… The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2012 To May 2013 Robert Viagas 9th Annual Ed, p. 14
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Kinky Boots at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.