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Panic! At the Disco's Brendon Urie to Make Broadway Debut in Kinky Boots

The rock band’s lead singer will take on the role of Charlie Price for a limited run.

Brendon Urie will make his Broadway debut in Kinky Boots.
Brendon Urie will make his Broadway debut in Kinky Boots.
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Panic! At the Disco frontman Brendon Urie will make his Broadway debut as Charlie Price in Kinky Boots, joining the cast May 26-August 6 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Urie succeeds Killian Donnelly in the Tony-winning musical, which just celebrated its four-year anniversary on Broadway.

"I’m thrilled to be making my Broadway debut with this fantastic company," said Urie. "I’m a huge fan of Kinky Boots and musical theater, and am honored to be joining the cast."

Urie is the frontman of the Grammy-nominated rock band, Panic! At the Disco. The band’s fifth studio album, Death of a Bachelor, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Chart, with their single "Victorious" debuting at No. 1 on iTunes Top Songs, iTunes Alternative Songs, and Billboard Twitter’s Trending 140 charts.

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 with direction by Jerry Mitchell. The musical tells the story of Charlie Price, the owner of a failing shoe factory who realizes that a sassy drag queen named Lola has the key to the business' success.

The current Broadway cast features J. Harrison Ghee (Lola), Killian Donnelly (Charlie Price), and Taylor Louderman (Lauren), along with Daniel Stewart Sherman, Shannon O’Boyle, Marcus Neville, Sean Patrick Doyle, Kevin Smith Kirkwood, Fred Odgaard, Kyle Post, Eric LaJuan Summers, Hernando Umana, Adinah Alexander, Eugene Barry-Hill, Stephen Berger, Damien Brett, Devin Trey Campbell, Christopher Convery, Holly Davis, Jesus Del Orden, Stephane Duret, Christy Faber, Mia Gentile, Blair Goldberg, Natalie Joy Johnson, Jake Katzman, Jeff Kuhr, Ross Lekites, Eric Leviton, Ellyn Marie Marsh, John Jeffrey Martin, Michael Milkanin, Nathan Peck, Jennifer Perry, and Stephen Tewksbury.

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