The London company of Kinky Boots. Picture: Matt Crockett
Multi award-winning musical Kinky Boots is to step out on a major UK tour from September next year.
The show will hit the road from 19 September 2018, opening at the Royal & Derngate in Northampton where it will run until 6 October.
Other confirmed dates include: Wolverhampton Grand Theatre (16-27 October 2018); Newcastle Theatre Royal (29 October-10 November 2018); Manchester Opera House (12 November-1 December 2018); Edinburgh Playhouse (10 December 2018-5 January 2019); Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury (14-26 January 2019); Regent Theatre, Stoke-on Trent (28 January-9 February 2019); and Bristol Hippodrome (25 February-9 March 2019). Further dates are to be announced.
An instant favourite with theatregoers, the exuberant show’s impressive awards haul includes three Oliviers (Best New Musical, Best Costume Design and Best Actor in a Musical for Matt Henry who played Lola), the London Evening Standard BBC Radio 2 Audience Award for Best Musical and the WhatsOnStage Awards (Best New Musical Best Actor in a Musical and Best Choreography). The show also picked up six Tony Awards in the US.
With a book by Broadway legend and four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein (La Cage Aux Folles), and songs by Grammy and Tony-winning pop icon Cyndi Lauper, the production is directed and choreographed by double Tony Award winner Jerry Mitchell.
Commenting on the tour, composer and lyricist, Lauper said: “It has been a wonderful adventure and a privilege for me, to play a part in creating Kinky Boots. Everyone can relate to this universal story, and I am overwhelmed that people in the UK have embraced it with open arms. I am thrilled that this fabulous show will be touring the country!”
Book writer, Harvey Fierstein commented: “The inspiring story of Kinky Boots will soon complete its full circle journey from Northampton to the silver screen to Broadway and London and now, at last, back home to Northampton as it embarks on a national UK tour. How often does that happen? It’s been an absolute thrill to witness the giant heart of our show raise audiences up out of their seats in clamorous joy night after night in the West End and I am now so glad to experience its homecoming.”
Director and choreographer, Jerry Mitchell added: “I am delighted to see this big-spirited musical going on tour. Kinky Boots is very close to my heart, and I am really looking forward to taking this British musical all over the UK.”
Kinky Boots, currently at the Adelphi Theatre, London is currently taking bookings into 2019.
Angela Thomas
Tickets for Kinky Boots at the Adelphi Theatre are available HERE.
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