Award-winning Kinky Boots opens at London’s Adelphi Theatre on 15 September, 2015. Picture: Matthew Murphy
The UK premiere of multi award-winning musical Kinky Boots will open in the West End on 15 September at the Adelphi Theatre, with previews from 21 August 2015. With a book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, music and lyrics by pop icon Cyndi Lauper, and direction and choreography by two-time Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell, Kinky Boots won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Musical, and the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album. Tickets at the Adelphi Theatre go on sale from Monday 2 March 2015.
Inspired by a true story and based on the Miramax film written by Geoff Deane and Tim Firth, Kinky Boots tells the story of Charlie Price who has reluctantly inherited his father’s Northampton shoe factory. Trying to live up to his father’s legacy and save the family business from bankruptcy, Charlie finds inspiration in the form of Lola. A fabulous entertainer in need of some sturdy stilettos, Lola turns out to be the one person who can help Charlie become the man he’s meant to be. As they work to turn the factory around, this unlikely pair finds that they have more in common than they ever dreamed possible… and discovers that when you change your mind, you can change the world.
Producers Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig said: “We are thrilled and deeply honoured to be bringing Kinky Boots back home to British shores, where this inspirational story is set. The show is big-hearted and filled with joy and we trust that it will be warmly embraced by audiences in the UK.”
Director and choreographer, Jerry Mitchell added: “I am delighted to see this big-spirited musical arrive in London. Kinky Boots is very close to my heart, and I am really looking forward to staging it here with a British cast.”
Harvey Fierstein (book) is the author of the recent Broadway hits Newsies and Casa Valentina, as well as Torch Song Trilogy, La Cage aux Folles, A Catered Affair, Safe Sex, Legs Diamond, Spookhouse, Flatbush Tosca, Common Ground and more. As an actor, Fierstein is known worldwide for his performances in films including Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day and Bullets Over Broadway; on stage in Hairspray, Fiddler On the Roof, La Cage aux Folles and Torch Song Trilogy.
Cyndi Lauper (composer and lyricist) is a Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award-winning (for her Kinky Boots score) artist. With her first album, She’s So Unusual, Lauper won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist and became the first female in history to have four Top Five singles from a debut album. Since then, Lauper has released ten additional studio albums, with her most recent, Memphis Blues, ruling the Billboard Blues Chart for 14 consecutive weeks to become the best-selling blues album of 2010. As an actress, Lauper made her Broadway debut in The Threepenny Opera alongside Alan Cumming in 2006. She has appeared in numerous television shows and films.
Jerry Mitchell (director and choreographer) received the Tony Award in recognition of his choreography for the 2013 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Kinky Boots, for which his direction was also recognised with a Tony nomination. In the 33 preceding years, Mitchell has been involved with more than 50 Broadway, Off-Broadway, West End and touring productions. His West End credits include the Olivier Award winning musical Legally Blonde, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Hairspray and La Cage aux Folles. His Broadway debut as a choreographer, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, was followed by The Full Monty, The Rocky Horror Show, Hairspray, Gypsy, Never Gonna Dance, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, La Cage aux Folles, Imaginary Friends, Legally Blonde, which he also directed, and Catch Me If You Can. Most recently, Mitchell received the Drama League’s Founders’ Award for Excellence in Directing and the George Abbott Lifetime Achievement Award from his peers. Twenty-three years ago, he conceived and created Broadway Bares, a comedy burlesque show performed annually for the charity Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Also in the creative team are set designer David Rockwell, costume designer Gregg Barnes, lighting designer Kenneth Posner, sound designer John Shivers, with musical supervision, arrangements and orchestrations by Stephen Oremus.
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