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Broadway's Kinky Boots Will Strut to Australia

The production will play at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Melbourne.

Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff

| New York City |

July 10, 2015

Jeanna de Waal and Andy Kelso as Lauren and Charlie in Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein's Kinky Boots.
Jeanna de Waal and Andy Kelso as Lauren and Charlie in Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein's Kinky Boots.
(© Matthew Murphy)

The Tony- and Grammy Award-winning musical Kinky Boots, will receive an Australian production next October, producers have announced. The production will play at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Melbourne, Australia, but no other details have been announced so far.

Inspired by the 2005 British film of the same title, Kinky Boots features a Tony-winning score by Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein. Tony Award winner Billy Porter stars as Lola, a sassy drag performer who helps rejuvenate a failing shoe factory by designing boots for his fellow drag queens. The Broadway production plays at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.

The current Broadway cast of Kinky Boots also includes Andy Kelso, Haven Burton, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Cortney Wolfson, Marcus Neville, Nick Rashad Burroughs, Paul Canaan, Sean Patrick Doyle, Kevin Smith Kirkwood, Kyle Post, Joey Taranto, Adinah Alexander, Douglas Baldeo, Eugene Barry-Hill, Stephen Berger, Alfred DalPino, Anna Eilinsfeld, Mia Gentile, Gaelen Gilliland, Natalie Joy Johnson, Jake Katzman, Eric Leviton, Ellyn Marie Marsh, John Jeffrey Martin, Graham Montgomery, Jake Odmark, Nathan Peck, Robert Pendilla, Jennifer Perry, Stephen Tewksbury, Jeremy T. Villas, and Timothy Ware.

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