Kinky Boots Tickets

By: Music & Lyrics by Cyndi Lauper, with a Book by Harvey Fierstein
Director: Jerry Mitchell
Producer: Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig
Cast list: Andy Kelso (as Charlie Price), J. Harrison Ghee (as Lola), Carrie St. Louis (as Lauren), Caroline Bowman (as Nicola), Daniel Stewart Sherman (as Don), and Marcus Neville (as George)
Design: David Rockwell
Lighting: Kenneth Posner
Costume: Gregg Barnes
Choreography: Jerry Mitchell
Sound: John Shivers

Who doesn’t love a story about drag queens saving a local business? Kinky Boots raised up thousands of Broadway audiences for six years, but it hasn't gotten the boot for good. This glitzy, sexy, uplifting show is back, off Broadway this time, just over three blocks from its original home. Get Kinky Boots tickets on TodayTix.

In the Kinky Boots musical, Charlie Price inherits his family’s nearly bankrupt shoe factory in Northampton, while his snobby fiancée just wants to move to London and escape the perils of small-town life. When Charlie meets Lola, a feisty and vivacious drag queen, at a nightclub in the city, he has an idea: What if the factory entered a niche market?

Fast forward to Lola and her entourage visiting Price & Sons, to some of the workers’ chagrin, to request some reinforced steel in their 4-and-a-half inch heels. “The sex is in the heel,” after all. Together, Lola and Charlie form an unstoppable partnership and teach each other and their friends about love, acceptance, and learning to “just be who you wanna be.”

Based on the 2005 film of the same name (starring a young Chiwetel Ejiofor as Lola), the musical won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Musical. The Kinky Boots Broadway production ran for six years, almost to the day, at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, and has given way to a West End premiere (which won the 2016 Olivier Award for Best New Musical), a national tour, and international productions.

Broadway legend Jerry Mitchell directed and choreographed the show, which has a book by Harvey Fierstein and music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper. Three years after the musical left Broadway, Mitchell returns to direct the encore engagement of Kinky Boots off Broadway.

The New York Times review reads, “Try to resist if you must,” but you’ll undoubtedly leave the theatre dancing with a warm heart and inspired mind.

Everybody say yeah! Get tickets to Kinky Boots in New York on TodayTix.

Appropriate for ages 10 and up.

What to Watch For

• Cyndi Lauper is the only woman to receive the Tony Award for Best Score on her own. Kinky Boots is her first musical, and she’s been working on a musical adaptation of the movie Working Girl.
• The show features 80 wigs that have their own dedicated staff to style and preserve.
• Each performer's boots are also custom-made to fit them; the real-life shoemakers for Kinky Boots have to take over 20 different measurements of each actor's legs and feet to make their boots. There are over 200 individual pairs of boots in the musical in total!
• The story is not just glitz and glitter: The musical is inspired by a true story. Steve Pateman is the real-life shoemaker who launched a line of high-heeled boots for men, called Divine Footwear, to save his family’s factory. Pateman’s life was the subject of a 1999 BBC documentary, which then led to the 2005 film and now the musical!
• Lots of celebrities stepped into the high-heeled shoes of Lola on Broadway, including Wayne Brady and Todrick Hall. Panic! At the Disco frontman Brendon Urie also did a stint as Charlie, and Pentatonix member Kirstin Maldonado played Lauren for a limited time. There are no TV stars or famous singers in Kinky Boots off Broadway now, but the cast is just as fabulous.