The Tony-winning musical opened on April 4, 2013, at Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
Kinky Boots celebrated its five-year Broadway anniversary on Wednesday, April 4. Songwriter Cyndi Lauper, and director Jerry Mitchell were on hand to celebrate with current stars Wayne Brady, Kirstin Maldonado, and the cast.
Winner of six 2013 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Kinky Boots features a Tony Award-winning score by Cyndi Lauper, a book by Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein, and direction and choreography by Tony Award winner Jerry Mitchell. Kinky Boots tells the uplifting and heartwarming tale of Charlie Price, a young man reluctantly taking over his family's struggling shoe factory and looking for a fresh idea. Charlie meets and finds inspiration in Lola, and together they discover that it takes a good friend to make a great pair.
The current Broadway cast includes Wayne Brady (Lola), David Cook (Charlie Price), Kirstin Maldonado (Lauren), Daniel Stewart Sherman (Don), Caroline Bowman (Nicola), Marcus Neville (George), Adinah Alexander, Eugene Barry-Hill, Stephen Berger, Holly Davis, Jesus Del Orden, Stephane Duret, Mia Gentile, Blair Goldberg, Natalie Joy Johnson, Jake Katzman, Kevin Smith Kirkwood, Blaine Alden Krauss, Eric Leviton, Jake Odmark, John Jeffrey Martin, Julia McLellan, Michael Milkanin, Connor Mills, Christian Mullins, Fred Odgaard, Robert Pendilla, Jennifer Perry, Kyle Post, Charlie Sutton, Joey Taranto, and Stephen Tewksbury.