CAMBRIDGE – Drayton Leisure is urging theatre-goers to “Step right into a dream the place glamour is excessive” with the worldwide smash-hit musical Kinky Boots!
Winner of six Tony® Awards, London’s Olivier Award, and a Grammy® Award, this “huge-hearted, high-heeled hit” contains a sensational rating by pop icon Cyndi Lauper, theatre officers state.
The present can be on stage for 3 weeks on the Hamilton Household Theatre Cambridge from Aug. 3 to twenty.
“Kinky Boots is undoubtedly a worldwide phenomenon,” says inventive director Alex Mustakas.
“It’s energetic, enjoyable, and full of nice music that can attraction to all sorts of theatregoers. Initially scheduled for the 2020 season, the run was lower quick by the pandemic after solely three performances. We’re excited to lastly carry this present again to Cambridge.”
Based mostly on a real story, Kinky Boots! follows Charlie Worth, who’s struggling to save lots of the lads’s shoe manufacturing unit inherited from his father in Northampton, England. When all appears misplaced, an opportunity encounter with the dazzling drag queen Lola spurs an outrageous concept catering to an underserved area of interest market by creating “ladies’s boots for girls who’re males.” This mismatched pair finally embrace their variations and outfit themselves for achievement by making a glowing line of sturdy stilettos in contrast to any the world has ever seen.
Director and choreographer David Connolly is on the helm of this Broadway musical.
Connolly has directed previous hit productions together with Disney’s Newsies, Mamma Mia! and Cinderella.
Connolly is joined by music director Darryn de Souza, set designer Brian Dudkiewicz, costume designer Ivan Brozic, lighting designer Kaileigh Krysztofiak, stage supervisor Dustyn Wales, assistant stage managers Frances Bundy and Tali Anzel-Sivkin, and assistant director Troy Defour.
Jos N. Banks steps into the position of vibrant drag queen, Lola, who helps Charlie save the manufacturing unit whereas battling his personal demons. Banks, a local of Chicago, has carried out the position of Lola within the North American and Asian Excursions of Kinky Boots.
Sayer Roberts is Charlie Worth, a younger man who’s attempting to save lots of the almost bankrupt males’s shoe manufacturing unit left to him by his late father. Roberts appeared within the position of Johnny B. in Drayton Leisure’s 2016 manufacturing of Pink Rock Diner and starred as Brad within the Stratford Competition manufacturing of The Rocky Horror Present.
AJ Bridel is Lauren, a strong-minded worker of Worth & Son’s shoe manufacturing unit who finds herself falling for Charlie whereas serving to him save the manufacturing unit. Bridel appeared within the position of Sophie in final 12 months’s manufacturing of Mamma Mia!,.
Different forged members embrace Alyssa Curto, Paul Jerry Schwartz, Jackie Mustakas, Sandy Winsby, Justin Stadnyk, Andrew Scanlon is and Cassel Miles.
George Absi, Wesley J. Barnes, Devin Chin-Cheong, Billy Lake, Noah Tremblay, and Trayvon Ward are The Angels, Lola’s fellow drag queens, and backup dancers at The Blue Angel Nightclub. Michael Cox, Keely Hutton, Stacey Kay, and Stephanie Pitsiladis spherical out the glamorous forged because the ensemble.
Kinky Boots options songs by award-winning artist Cyndi Lauper, with a guide by Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein
Based mostly on the 2005 Miramax movie, Kinky Boots premiered on the Financial institution of America Theatre in Chicago in 2012, then made its Broadway debut on the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in 2013.
Common efficiency tickets are $55 for adults, $34 for youth underneath 20 years of age. Tickets for choose low cost dates and teams of 20 or extra are $45, and small teams of 10-19 are $50. HST is relevant to all ticket costs. Tickets will be bought by calling the Field Workplace at 519-621-8000 or toll free at 1-855-drayton (372-9866), or on-line at http://www.draytonentertainment.com.