J. Harrison Ghee and Jake Shears celebrate 2,000 performances with the audience at Kinky Boots. (Photo by Emilio Madrid-Kuser.)
Kinky Boots producers Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig announced today that the Tony® Award-winning musical Kinky Boots celebrated 2,000 performances on Broadway at Saturday’s matinee performance, January 20, 2018. Led by Scissor Sisters front-man, Jake Shears as ‘Charlie Price’ and J. Harrison Ghee as ‘Lola,’ the matinee audience took part in a full-theater photograph to commemorate the show’s milestone performance.
Roth and Luftig previously announced that Pentatonix star Kirstin Maldonado will join the cast as ‘Lauren’ on February 2, 2018.
The 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.
Kinky Boots has won every major Best Musical Award and is represented around the world with the Tony Award-winning Broadway company now in its fifth year, a London production in its third year (where it won the 2016 Olivier Award for Best Musical) with a recently announced UK & Ireland Tour commencing next summer, a North American First National Tour in its fourth year, an upcoming production in Germany beginning performances later this month, a Korean production returning to Seoul for a third season this coming Spring and a Japanese production returning for a second season to Tokyo and Osaka in 2019.
Other previous productions include an extended run in Toronto (winner of the Dora Award for Musical) and an award-winning Australian production which concluded in October 2017. The Grammy Award-winning Original Broadway Cast Recording of Kinky Boots is available on Sony Masterworks Broadway.
