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Kinky Boots is a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein.

Based on the 2005 British film Kinky Boots, written by Geoff Deane and Tim Firth and 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 Chicago in October 2012, with both direction and choreography by Jerry Mitchell, and starring Stark Sands and Billy Porter as Charlie and Lola, respectively. It made its Broadway debut at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on April 4, 2013, following previews that began on March 3, 2013. The musical began its US tour in 2014.

Having initially been less well received by theatre critics and at the box office than another 2013 Broadway production, Matilda the Musical, Kinky Boots entered the 2013 awards season as an underdog. However, less than a month after opening, Kinky Boots surpassed this rival with audiences in weekly box office gross and later enjoyed a post-Tony boost in advance sales. The production earned a season-high 13 nominations and 6 Tony wins, including Best Musical and Best Score for Lauper in her first outing as a Broadway songwriter, making her the first woman to win alone in that category. The musical's cast album premiered at number one on the Billboard Cast Albums Chart and number fifty-one on the Billboard 200 chart. In 2016, it won three Laurence Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical.

Background and creation

By mid-2008, Roth and Luftig were in discussions with a potential director, Jerry Mitchell, but they still had not found writers.^[8] When Roth sent Mitchell the DVD of the film, he was enthusiastic about it.^[9] Roth and Luftig hired Mitchell to direct and Harvey Fierstein to write the book.^[6]^[10] Mitchell knew that Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper were friends, and he thought they would make a good team to create the musical.^[9] Fierstein agreed and eventually approached Lauper to write the songs^[3] because he "saw in the adaptation an opportunity to work with someone with a big musical range, 'somebody who could write club music,' ... along with show tunes."^[11] Lauper joined the creative team in June 2010.^[12] Lauper's last project before Kinky Boots had been the album Memphis Blues, while Fierstein was working on Newsies when he began Kinky Boots.^[11] The work marked Lauper's debut as a musical theatre songwriter,^[10] although she had some theatrical experience, having performed on Broadway in the 2006 Roundabout Theatre Company production of The Threepenny Opera.^[13] Among Fierstein's prior experiences were works about drag queens: La Cage aux Folles and Torch Song Trilogy.^[14] Lauper has said that she identifies with drag queens.^[15]

Fierstein and Lauper had both gained previous critical acclaim and honors in their respective fields. Fierstein had won four Tonys: acting and writing awards for Torch Song Trilogy, an acting Tony for Hairspray, and one for writing the book of La Cage; Lauper is a chart-topping singer-songwriter and actress who had won Grammy, Emmy and many other awards for her songs and performances.^[16]^[22]^[17] Fierstein noted a change in focus between the film "about the saving of a factory" and the musical, which include "drag queens singing as they pass along the assembly line."^[3]^[9] He said the main difference is that the musical is, "at its core, about two young men who come from seemingly opposite worlds who figure out that they have a lot in common, beginning with the need to stand up to their dads."^[9] Lauper's inspirations ranged from the musicals South Pacific and West Side Story to Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring and pop singer Lana Del Rey.^[11] In a broadcast interview with Patrick Healy of The New York Times, Lauper and Fierstein said that, in adapting the film, they stressed themes of community and the universality of the father-son bond as vehicles to explore the issues of tolerance and self-acceptance.^[18]

Synopsis

Act I

Charlie Price grows up as the fourth-generation "son" in his family business, Price & Son, a shoe factory in Northampton. Another young boy, growing up in London, is as fascinated by shoes as Charlie is bored by them, but in this case, it is a pair of red women's heels that have attracted his attention, aggravating his strict father. Years pass. Charlie's father is aging and hopes that Charlie will take over the factory, but Charlie is eager to move to London with his status-conscious fiancée, Nicola, and pursue a career in real estate ("The Most Beautiful Thing").

Charlie has barely made it into his new flat in London when his father dies suddenly. Charlie hurries home for the funeral, where he finds the factory near bankruptcy. The factory makes good quality men's shoes, but they are not stylish and not cheap, and the market for them is drying up. Charlie is determined to save the factory and his father's legacy, though he has no desire to run Price & Sons himself. The workers, many of whom have known Charlie his entire life, do not understand why Charlie had moved away in the first place, and many are hostile and skeptical of the new management.

Returning to London, Charlie meets his friend and fellow shoe salesman, Harry, in a pub to ask for help with the factory. Harry can only offer a temporary solution and advises Charlie not to fight the inevitable ("Take What You Got"). Leaving the pub, Charlie witnesses a woman being accosted by two drunks. He intervenes and is knocked unconscious. He comes to in a seedy nightclub, where the woman he attempted to rescue is revealed to have been the club's drag queen headliner, Lola, who performs with her backup troupe of drag dancers, the "angels" ("Land of Lola"). Recuperating from his ordeal in Lola's dressing room, an uncomfortable Charlie notices that the performers' high-heeled boots are not designed to hold a man's weight, but Lola explains that the expensive and unreliable footwear is an essential part of any drag act.

Charlie returns to the factory and begins reluctantly laying off his workers. Lauren, one of the women on the assembly line, explodes at Charlie when given her notice, and stubbornly tells him that other struggling shoe factories have survived by entering an "underserved niche market". This gives Charlie an idea ("Land of Lola" reprise), and he invites Lola to come to the factory to help him design a women's boot that can be comfortable for a man ("Charlie's Soliloquy"/"Step One").

Lola and the angels arrive at the factory, and she is immediately unsatisfied with Charlie's first design of the boot. Quickly getting the women of the factory on her side, she draws a quick design of a boot, explaining the most important factor is by far the heel ("The Sex is in the Heel"). George, the factory manager, realizes a way to make her design practical, and an impressed Charlie begs Lola to stay until a prestigious footwear show in Milan in three weeks' time, to design a new line of "kinky boots" that could save the factory. Lola is reluctant, since she is already receiving crass comments from Don, the factory foreman and some of the other factory workers but is flattered by Charlie's praise, and finally agrees.

Charlie announces that the factory will be moving ahead with production on the boots. He thanks Lauren for giving him the idea and offers her a promotion. She accepts and is horrified but thrilled to realize she is falling for him ("The History of Wrong Guys").

The next day, Lola shows up in men's clothes and is mocked by Don and his friends. An upset Lola takes refuge in the bathroom, and Charlie attempts to comfort her. Lola explains that her father trained her as a boxer, but disowned her when she showed up for a match in drag. The two discover their similarly complex feelings toward their fathers, and Lola introduces herself by her birth name: Simon ("Not My Father's Son").

Nicola and her boss Richard Bailey arrive from the city of London and present Charlie with a plan for the factory that Richard has drawn up: closing it and converting it into condominiums. Charlie refuses but is shocked to discover that his father had agreed to this plan before he died, presumably because Charlie was not there to run it. He refuses to sell, and soon the workers are celebrating as the first pair of "kinky boots" is finished ("Everybody Say Yeah").

Act II

Some of the factory workers are not enthusiastic about the radical change in their product line. Some of them, especially the intimidating Don, make Lola feel very unwelcome. Lola taunts him back, enlisting the help of the female factory workers to prove that Lola is closer to a woman's ideal man than Don ("What a Woman Wants"). Lola presents Don with a unique wager to see who is the better "man": Lola will do any one thing that Don specifies if Don will do one thing that Lola specifies. Don's challenge is for Lola to fight him in a boxing match at the pub. Charlie, remembering Lola's background, is horrified. Lola easily scores against Don in the ring but ultimately lets Don win the match ("In This Corner"). Afterwards, in private, Don asks why she let him win, and Lola replies that she could not be so cruel as to humiliate Don in front of his mates. She gives him her part of the challenge: "accept someone for who they are."

Charlie is pouring his own money into the factory to ensure it will be ready in time for Milan, and he is getting frantic that the product is not right, angrily forcing his staff to redo what he considers to be shoddy work. Nicola arrives, fed up with Charlie's obsession over the factory, and breaks up with him. Lola has been making some decisions about production and preparations without consulting Charlie. When he discovers that she has decided to have her angels wear the boots on the runway rather than hiring professional models, an overwhelmed Charlie lashes out at her, humiliating her in front of the other workers. Lola storms out, and the factory workers go home. Alone, Charlie struggles with the weight of his father's legacy and what it means to be his own man ("Soul of a Man").

Lauren finds Charlie and tells him to come back to the factory. It is revealed that Don has persuaded all the workers to return to work and to sacrifice a week's pay to ensure the boots can be finished in time for Milan. Charlie is astonished and grateful, and asks if Don has paid up on his wager by accepting Lola. Lauren explains that the person that Don has accepted is Charlie himself.

As he heads to the airport for Milan, Charlie leaves a heartfelt apology on Lola's voicemail. Meanwhile, Lola performs her act at a nursing home in her home town. After she leaves the stage, she speaks to her now wheelchair-bound father, who is dying in the home, and reaches a sense of closure ("Hold Me in Your Heart").

Charlie and Lauren arrive in Milan, but without models Charlie is forced to walk the runway himself. Lauren is thrilled by his dedication ("The History of Wrong Guys (Reprise)") but the show threatens to be a disaster. Just as all seems lost, Lola and her angels arrive to save the day. Lauren and Charlie share their first kiss, and the whole company celebrates the success of the "Kinky Boots" ("Raise You Up/Just Be").

Music

In Lauper's first effort at writing for the stage, she found that it required a sustained effort to write songs for the different characters.^[22] Lauper joked about the difficulty of writing her first score: "How much of a stretch is it for me to write songs about fashion, funny relationships, people changing their minds and shoes?"^[9] The first song that Lauper wrote was the opening number, which included a wide range of voices.^[17] Her process was to conceive a song and sing it into her iPhone, and orchestrator Stephen Oremus would write it down.^[9] Oremus would then "'blow up' the vocal line into harmonies, create the incidental music that linked scenes and songs" and orchestrate the material.^[23] The songs range in style "from pop to funk to new wave to tango, with highly personal lyrics".^[11] New York Times critic Melena Ryzik wrote: "Though there are plenty of hooky, rousing numbers, the emotional heart of Kinky Boots is several ballads about the weight of parental expectations."^[11] The musical uses a twelve-piece orchestra consisting of keyboards, percussion, bass, guitars, reeds, violin, viola, cello, trumpet, and trombone.^[24]^[25]

Musical numbers

Another reprise of Charlie's Soliloquy was added for the West End production in between "Not My Father's Son" and "Everybody Say Yeah."

Principal roles and original casts

Production history

Chicago and Broadway

On February 6, 2012, the Chicago Tribune reported that Kinky Boots' producers were considering taking advantage of an incentive program from the State of Illinois for out-of-town tryouts for Broadway shows.^[35] The October 2012 pre-Broadway Chicago tryout was announced on February 22, 2012.^[36]^[37] On June 28, 2012 the full Chicago cast was announced.^[38] The production was rehearsed at the New 42nd Street Studios in New York City in September 2012. The show began its pre-Broadway run at the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago, on October 2, 2012, which continued until November 4, 2012.^[9]^[22]^[39] The show was directed and choreographed by Mitchell; scenic design was by David Rockwell, costumes by Gregg Barnes, lighting by Kenneth Posner and sound by John Shivers. The music director and orchestrator was Stephen Oremus. The director and design team had gained previous critical acclaim and theatre or music awards. Mitchell had won a Tony Award for choreographing the 2005 revival of La Cage aux Folles; Barnes and Posner had won Tonys; and Rockwell had been nominated for Tonys and other theatre awards.^[16]^[22]^[17]

Mitchell and Rockwell had previously collaborated on Hairspray, Catch Me If You Can and Legally Blonde.^[40] Mitchell told The New York Times that the "Everybody Say Yeah" scene, in which the cast celebrates the creation of the first pair of Kinky Boots with a choreographed celebration on conveyor belts, required repeated innovations and adjustments like the eventual addition of safety rails and actor controls for the apparatus.^[41] Designer Derek McLane commented that it is not uncommon for repeat choreographer/set designer collaborations to result in intriguing innovation like the conveyor belt dance scene in Kinky Boots. McLane was impressed with the "series of conveyor belts that came apart, moved around, and fit the context of the story" in order to accentuate the choreography of "a troupe of men in four-inch heels". With respect to the conveyor belts, he said, "They've never been used as dynamically as this, creating a series of surprises, with the kind of wild athleticism that actually looks dangerous. It's one of the more thrilling combinations of stage design and choreography that I can recall."^[40]

After the tryout, the team went back to work, adding a new musical number for Charlie and a second song in the drag club, removing another song, and revising the book.^[3] The Broadway debut started previews on March 3, 2013 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, with the official opening on April 4, 2013.^[42]^[43] Both the Chicago and original Broadway casts starred Billy Porter as Lola, Stark Sands as Charlie and Annaleigh Ashford as Lauren.^[44]^[38] Porter, in particular, was singled out for critical praise.^[45]^[46]

The musical’s economic clout empowers a shift in the American cultural climate, engendering acceptance of cross-dressing and transgender individuals.^[59] For example, on November 28, 2013, members of the cast performed the finale of the show in the nationally televised Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Many viewers commented that, in their opinion, the performance was inappropriate for a family program.^[60]^[61] By contrast, some spectators applauded the performance for sharing messages of “inclusivity” and “diversity”.^[62] This demonstrates how the musical’s financial power has played a strong role in “starting a dialogue”, both support and criticism, facilitating the necessary steps to “open peoples’ minds”^[63] and hearts towards LGBTI Americans. Fierstein responded that the show's inclusion in the parade reflected decreasing prejudice and increased tolerance for LGBT people in society.^[64] The performance of August 26, 2015 marked the 1000th Broadway performance for the production.^[65] On September 28, 2018 it was announced that the Broadway production will close on April 7, 2019. At the time of closing, the show will have played 34 previews and 2,507 performances.

Toronto

The Toronto original cast, led by Alan Mingo Jr as Lola and Graham Scott Fleming as Charlie, began rehearsals with Jerry Mitchel and the Broadway creative team on May 4, 2015. It began previews on June 16, 2015 with its opening night coming on June 28 to critical acclaim.{{citation needed|date=June 2016}}

Initially planned to run from June to September 2015 at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, with a mostly Canadian cast,^[66] by the beginning of July, the run was extended to November.^[67] The run was later extended to January 3, to March 6 and finally to May 15, 2016,^[68]^[69] as the final show before the theatre closed for a major renovation.^[70]

West End

In January 2014, it was revealed Mitchell was planning a West End production and was negotiating to secure a theatre for 2015.^[71] On February 6, 2015, it was confirmed the musical would begin previews at the Adelphi Theatre in London, on August 21, 2015, with its official opening night on September 15.^[72] Tickets went on sale on March 2.^[73] On April 23, 2015, it was confirmed that Killian Donnelly and Matt Henry would play Charlie and Lola respectively, with other cast members including Amy Lennox as Lauren, Amy Ross as Nicola, Jamie Baughan as Don and Michael Hobbs as George.^[74] The West End production became London's first paperless and mobile ticketing operation.^[75] Although the show is set in a British town, it took a concerted effort to remove Americanisms from the Broadway production.^[76] On May 5, 2017 it was announced that Matt Henry will depart from the role of Lola after 2 years in the role. He performed around 750 performances by time of departure on July 8, 2017. On January 15, 2018, the West End production celebrated 1000 performances. ^[77] On June 12, 2018 it was announced Kinky Boots will close on January 12, 2019 after over 1400 performances.^[78]

Other productions

A US national tour began at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas on September 4, 2014.^[79] The role of Lola was set to be played by Kyle Taylor Parker.^[80] Porter took a week off from the Broadway production to perform with the national tour when it visited his home town of Pittsburgh from August 4 through August 9, 2015, at the Benedum Center.^[81]

A South Korean production was planned to run from December 2, 2014, to February 22, 2015, at the Chungmu Art Hall in Seoul.^[82]

The Japanese production ran in the New National Theatre in Tokyo from July 21 to August 6, 2016; the Orix Theater in Osaka from August 13 to 22, 2016; and the Tokyu Theatre Orb in Shibuya from August 28 to September 4, 2016. It starred Teppei Koike as Charlie and Haruma Miura as Lola.^[83]

The Australian production opened on 12 October 2016, at Her Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne.^[84] ^[85] The cast included Callum Francis, from the London production, as Lola, and Toby Francis as Charlie. Joining them were Sophie Wright (Lauren), Daniel Williston (Don), Teagan Wouters (Nicola) and Nathan Carter (George).^[86] This production then toured to Sydney's Capitol Theatre and Brisbane's QPAC where it closed on 22 October 2017.

A Philippine production, staged by Atlantis Theatrical, ran from June to July 2017, with Nyoy Volante as Lola and Laurence Mossman as Charlie Price^[87], and enjoyed a limited re-run in March 2018.^[88]

On July 7, 2017 a Polish production premiered at Teatr Dramatyczny in Warsaw, with Krzysztof Szczepaniak as Lola and Mateusz Weber as Charlie. ^[89]

The show was scheduled to premiere in Germany in autumn 2017, with Gino Emnes and Dominik Hees leading the production as Lola and Charlie Price. Due to few visitors, it closed on October 1, 2018.^[90]

A UK tour will start on September 19, 2018, at the Royal & Derngate in Northampton, where the show is set, and will continue into 2019.^[91]

In November 2018, it was announced that the musical would be produced as part of the on board entertainment for Norwegian Encore, a cruise ship in the Norwegian Cruise Line fleet.^[92]

Critical reaction

Upon its October 2012 Chicago opening, Chicago Tribune critic Chris Jones described the show as a "warm, likable, brassy, sentimental, big-hearted and modestly scaled" production.^[93] Another reviewer praised the score, book, direction and, particularly, Porter, before suggesting that, before opening on Broadway, it could use a more effective opening number, better pacing in Act 2 and "the budding romance between Charlie and coworker Lauren ... needs more lead-in. In other words, give Ashford, a clear crowd favorite, more to do".^[46]

The musical's Broadway debut received mixed to positive reviews.^[94] The show was awarded a "Critic's Pick" designation by The New York Times, Time Out New York and New York Magazine, and was included in Entertainment Weekly magazine's "Must See" list.^[95]

The theatre critic for Time Out New York called the show "the very model of a modern major musical."^[97] The Associated Press termed it "a big ol’ sweet love story about sons, the families we make and red patent leather. ... Thank goodness for Harvey Fierstein – he spins theatrical magic", but despite criticisms of the script the “perpetual cheer-churning machine” that is Kinky Boots certainly serves an important end goal; to empower not just its central characters, but the entire audience, in the spirit of acceptance.^[98] According to Julie Grossman, Kinky Boots facilitates the retraining of the eye to gender conventions and “repositions the marginalised figure as central to the spectacle of mass theatre... enacting a shift in the perspective of the viewer”.^[99] The finale “Raise You Up/Just Be” epitomises the empowerment of the individual, empowerment to “Just Be” regardless of the “oppressive gender roles directly connected to patriarchal views of legacy and inheritance”^[100] under which Charlie and Lola initially suffer. Entertainment Weekly said "Cyndi Lauper's infectious score is cause for celebration."^[101] New York Magazine,^[102] The New York Post,^[103] The Washington Post^[104] and Variety all gave mostly favorable reviews.^[105]

In 2014, Kinky Boots began a United States national tour, which has also garnered mostly positive reviews.^[113] Democrat and Chronicle^[114] raved, “Flashy, funny and uplifting, Kinky Boots has appeal — and lots of it — for all ‘ladies, gentleman and those who are yet to make up their mind.’” BroadwayWorld Los Angeles^[115] offered “praise to the entire triple threat ensemble!“ The Republic^[116] countered, “Despite the fiery showstopper 'Sex Is in the Heel,' however, Kinky Boots is surprisingly short on sex appeal, and the cheerleaderish troupe of drag queens called Angels don't have any of the transgressive appeal of the Cagelles from Fierstein's earlier hit La Cage aux Folles." CBS Minnesota^[117] summed it up as “loud, proud and a tubular sensation.”

The London production received mostly raves, with the London Evening Standard writing, "The thigh's the limit for this high-kicking London musical," calling it "a glorious high-kicking romp," and adding that "...its energy is infectious."^[118] Time Out London called it "dazzling, fabulously sassy and uplifting," explaining "It's not all glitz and high-kicks...there are some grittier moments that give the show an edgier feel."^[119] And Digital Spy proclaimed it "hilarious, heartwarming, and a hell of a lot of fun," offering special praise for the show's star: "Matt Henry...truly steals the show...He is utterly commanding in the role, and you instantly root for him."^[120]

It has been argued that Kinky Boots has added to the public discourse of gender, and its flexibility and fluidity. The prevalence of drag culture in mainstream media has introduced a step of separation between femininity and being female.^[121]

Awards and nominations

The West End production won the Evening Standard Radio 2 Audience Award for Best New Musical, which was based on voting by the public at the 2015 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.^[133] The show earned seven nominations for the 2016 Laurence Olivier Awards, which was second to a revival of Gypsy, which earned eight nominations.^[134] Kinky Boots won three Olivier Awards: Best New Musical, Best Actor in a Musical and Best Costume Design, trailing only Gypsys four awards.^[135]

Recordings

A Broadway original cast album, produced by Lauper, Oremus and William Wittman^[136] was released on May 28, 2013.^[137] It premiered at number one on the Billboard Cast Albums Chart and number fifty-one on the Billboard 200 chart,^[138] making it the highest charting Broadway cast recording since The Book of Mormon{{'}}s album was released two years earlier.^[139] Before the Chicago tryout, "Sex Is in the Heel" became the first Broadway song to reach the top 10 of the Billboard club charts in 25 years.^[11] "Land of Lola" was released as a dance remix by Wayne G. & LFB in June 2013.^[140] The album received a favorable review in Playbill from Steven Suskin^[141] and won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.^[142]

A West End Original Cast Recording was recorded live at the Adelphi Theatre and released April 1, 2016.^[143] The West End cast recording was nominated for a 2017 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.^[144]

Collaboration

In summer 2018, a Kinky Boots co-branded pop-up store launched at Mellower Coffee's Tongren Road location in Shanghai. Mellower Coffee has specially made a "Sparkle Dance" drink for this event.^[145]

Notes

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2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0077q7l|title=Kinky Boot Factory|publisher=BBC Two|accessdate=November 11, 2013|date=}}
3. ^¹²³{{cite web|author=Ferri, Josh|url=http://www.broadway.com/buzz/168053/fetish-footwear-acclaimed-film-rockin-broadway-musical-explore-the-many-steps-of-kinky-boots/|title=Fetish Footwear, Acclaimed Film & Rockin' Broadway Musical: Explore the Many Steps of Kinky Boots|publisher=Broadway.com|date=March 16, 2013|accessdate= November 14, 2013}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://ibdb.com/person.php?id=21571|title=Daryl Roth|publisher=Internet Broadway Database|accessdate= December 16, 2013}}
5. ^{{cite web|last=Jones|first=Kenneth|title=Kinky Boots, the Musical, Walking Toward Broadway|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/119294-Kinky-Boots-the-Musical-Walking-Toward-Broadway|work=Playbill|date=July 8, 2008|accessdate=December 17, 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023234612/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/119294-Kinky-Boots-the-Musical-Walking-Toward-Broadway|archivedate=October 23, 2012|df=mdy-all}}
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7. ^{{cite web| title=Hal Luftig: Producer, Production Crew|url=http://ibdb.com/person.php?id=22131| publisher=The Broadway League| accessdate=December 17, 2013}}
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26. ^After previews, a song called "What Else Can I Do?/Bad Girl" was replaced by "The Land of Lola" (reprise).{{cite web | url=http://www.playbill.com/events/event_detail/24668-Kinky-Boots-at-Al-Hirschfeld-Theatre | title=Kinky Boots | work=Playbill | accessdate=June 9, 2013}}
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32. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/amp/articles/news/pride/8469541/mark-ballas-joins-kinky-boots-cast-broadway|title=Mark Ballas Steps Into 'Kinky Boots' Broadway Cast as Charlie Price|work=Billboard|last=Bote|first=Joshua|accessdate=September 10, 2018}}
33. ^{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2015/legit/news/wayne-brady-kinky-boots-broadway-1201569359/|title=Wayne Brady to Star in Broadway’s ‘Kinky Boots’|accessdate=August 14, 2015|date=August 13, 2015|work=Variety|author=Cox, Gordon}}
34. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/todrick-hall-will-join-broadways-kinky-boots-watch-video-of-his-lola-here|title=Todrick Hall Will Join Broadway’s Kinky Boots — Watch Video of His Lola Here!|accessdate=August 17, 2016|date=August 16, 2016|work=Playbill|author=Gans, Andrew}}
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37. ^{{cite web| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806E2DD113EF930A15751C0A9649D8B63|title=Artsbeat; Kinky Boots Musical Has Tryout in Chicago|accessdate=November 7, 2013|date=February 23, 2013|work=The New York Times|author=Healy, Patrick}}
38. ^¹{{cite web|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-06-28/entertainment/chi-kinky-boots-announces-full-cast-20120628_1_full-cast-marcus-neville-kinky-boots|title=Kinky Boots Announces Full Cast|accessdate=November 10, 2013| date=June 28, 2012|work=Chicago Tribune|author=Jones, Chris}}
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40. ^¹{{cite web |url= https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323869604578368372245126296|title=Curtain Raisers: The Belts Match the Boots |accessdate= November 12, 2013| date= March 13, 2013 |work= The Wall Street Journal |author= Simon, Lizzie}}
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43. ^¹{{cite web|url=http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/theater/hands-on-a-hardbody-and-kinky-boots-on-broadway.html| title=Hard Times Come Again, With Song|accessdate=March 14, 2013|date=February 21, 2013| work=The New York Times| author=Isherwood, Charles}}
44. ^¹²³{{cite web| url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/02/kinky-boots-chicago-premi_n_1933241.html|title=Kinky Boots Chicago Premiere: Cyndi Lauper, Harvey Fierstein Musical Begins Pre-Broadway Run| work=The Huffington Post| accessdate=October 5, 2012| date=October 2, 2012}}
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47. ^Matilda opened on Broadway on April 11, 2013, one week after Kinky Boots.
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