Kinky Boots (musical)

Kinky Boots
Chicago preview promotional poster
Music	Cyndi Lauper
Lyrics	Cyndi Lauper
Book	Harvey Fierstein
Basis	Kinky Boots by Geoff Deane Tim Firth
Premiere	October 2012: Bank of America Theatre, Chicago
Productions	2012 Chicago 2013 Broadway 2014 US Tour 2014 Seoul 2015 Toronto 2015 West End 2016 Melbourne 2016 Malmö 2016 Seoul 2016 Tokyo 2017 Germany 2017 Sydney 2017 Manila
Awards	Tony Award for Best Musical Tony Award for Best Original Score Tony Award for Best Choreography Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical

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 which was 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 been less well received by theatre critics and at the box office, initially, 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.