Productions1 on Broadway
| 2013 | Al Hirschfeld Theatre Original. · Jerry Mitchell | 2,505 performances · 6 Tony wins |
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Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Kinky Boots matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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In the literature15 passages
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— book:dominic-mchugh-the-oxford-handbook-of-musical-theatre-screen-adaptations-2019-ox#p883
Kinky Boots (2012) 592, 608 book:dominic-mchugh-the-oxford-handbook-of-musical-theatre-screen-adaptations-2019-ox#p948
Between 2001 and 2014 the majority of new musicals were based on successful movies; these include: ... Kinky Boots, Big Fish and Rocky, The Musical. book:a-history-of-the-american-musical-theatre-no-business-like-nathaniel-hurwitz-tay#p287
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. book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-2012-to-may-2013-robert-viagas-9th-annual-ed#p7
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… book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-2012-to-may-2013-robert-viagas-9th-annual-ed#p14
Charlie Sutton, Kinky Boots book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-2012-to-may-2013-robert-viagas-9th-annual-ed#p427
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