Lola Heads Down Under! Kinky Boots to Receive Australian Premiere

Everybody say…mate! The Tony-winning musical Kinky Boots will receive an Australian premiere next fall. Performances will begin at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Melbourne in October 2016. Casting and exact dates for the production, directed by Jerry Mitchell, will be announced later. The tuner features a score by Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein.

Based on the 2005 film and inspired by a true story, Kinky Boots follows Charlie Price, 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, 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 initially expected.

Kinky Boots opened on Broadway in 2013 and won six Tony Awards that year, including Best Musical. In addition to the Broadway production, the show is currently touring the U.S. and playing in Toronto at the Royal Alexandra Theatre. A South Korean production concluded its run in Seoul earlier this year.