Ready Boots? Start Walking! Kinky Boots, Starring Billy Porter & Stark Sands, Opens on Broadway

The crowd-pleasing new Broadway musical Kinky Boots, starring Billy Porter and Stark Sands, officially opens at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on April 4. Kinky Boots features music and lyrics by Grammy winner Cyndi Lauper, a book by Tony winner Harvey Fierstein and direction and choreography by Tony winner Jerry Mitchell.

A bevy of screen and stage stars are slated to welcome Kinky Boots to Broadway in grand style. Among them are Liza Minnelli, Bernadette Peters, Rosie O’Donnell, Cynthia Nixon, Mariska Hargitay, Chita Rivera, Megan Hilty, Christian Borle, Clive Davis, Joan Rivers, Glenn Close, Kathy Najimy, Steven Pasquale, Will Swenson, Victor Garber, Carson Kressley and Marissa Jaret Winokur.

Based on the 2005 film and inspired by a true story, Kinky Boots follows Charlie Price (Sands), an aspiring young businessman who, after the death of his father, is forced to give up his dreams of living in London in order to save his family’s fledgling shoe factory in Northern England. Charlie finds inspiration in Lola (Porter), a fabulous entertainer in need of some sturdy stilettos. As the unlikely pair works to turn the factory around, they find they have more in common than they ever dreamed possible. Kinky Boots co-stars Annaleigh Ashford and Celina Carvajal.

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