VIDEO: Take a Backstage Tour With KINKY BOOTS' Jeanna de Waal

By: Jul. 20, 2016
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British triple-threat Jeanna de Waal has sure been in demand since landing on these shores. After making her Broadway debut in AMERICAN IDIOT, she Ozified herself to tour as Glinda in WICKED, and then joined the Off-Broadway company of CARRIE.

After appearing in the American Repertory Theater's premiere production of WAITRESS, she returned to KINKY BOOTS where she's now enjoying her third stint as the romantically frustrated Lauren. But this engagement ends in August, as she'll be appearing in a two-person play at 59E59, although she seems to be keeping mum on the title.

In a new backstage video livestreamed on Facebook, she shows us the dressing areas where the KINKY BOOTS cast dons their fabulous footwear and gets their wigs applied, while answering viewer questions on her career and of the life of a Broadway performer.

KINKY BOOTS tells the uplifting and heartwarming tale of Charlie Price, a young man reluctantly taking over his family's struggling business. Charlie meets and finds inspiration in Lola and together, the unlikely pair finds that they have more in common than they ever dreamed possible... and discovers that when you change your mind about someone, you can change your whole world. The Grammy Award-winning Original Broadway Cast Recording ofKinky Boots is available on Sony Masterworks Broadway.

KINKY BOOTS has won the top prize for every production, including the Tony Award (Broadway production, 2013), the Olivier Award (West End production, 2016), the Dora Award (Toronto production, 2016), the Korean Musical Theatre Association Musical Award (Korean production, 2015), and the touring production has won many 'Best Of' Awards in major local markets. The Original Broadway Cast Recording of Kinky Boots won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album (2014).

In addition to the Broadway and West End productions of Kinky Boots, the show is currently touring the country on its First National Tour. An Australian production is set to open in October 2016 at Her Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne.



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