Masterworks Broadway has just announced the release of the Original Broadway Cast Recording of Kinky Boots. Produced by Cyndi Lauper, Stephen Oremus, William Wittman and Sammy James, Jr., the album will be available on Tuesday, May 28th, 2013.
Kinky Boots opened on Broadway at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on April 4, 2013. In Kinky Boots, Charlie Price (Tony Award nominee Stark Sands) has suddenly inherited his father's shoe factory, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. Trying to live up to his father's legacy and save his family business, Charlie finds inspiration in the form of Lola (Billy Porter). A fabulous entertainer in need of some sturdy stilettos, Lola turns out to be the one person who can help Charlie become the man he's meant to be. As they work to turn the factory around, this 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.
Inspired by a true story and based on the Miramax motion picture written by Geoff Deane and
Tim Firth, Kinky Boots features a warm and witty book by four-time Tony Award-winner
Harvey Fierstein (La Cage, Torch Song Trilogy, Newsies) and a richly diverse musical score from Grammy Award-winning rock icon
Cyndi Lauper, in her stunning theatrical debut. The production is directed and choreographed by Tony Award-winner
Jerry Mitchell (Hairspray, La Cage, Broadway Bares), with music supervision, arrangements and orchestrations by
Stephen Oremus (Book of Mormon, Wicked).
Tony Award nominee
Stark Sands and
Billy Porter lead a cast of thirty-two that also includes
Annaleigh Ashford,
Celina Carvajal,
Daniel Sherman,
Marcus Neville,
Paul Canaan,
Kevin Smith Kirkwood,
Kyle Taylor Parker,
Kyle Post,
Charlie Sutton,
Joey Taranto,
Andy Kelso,
Tory Ross,
Jennifer Perry,
Adinah Alexander,
Eric Anderson,
EuGene Barry-Hill,
Stephen Berger,
Caroline Bowman,
Cole Bullock,
Sandra DeNise,
Jonah Halperin,
Eric Leviton,
Ellyn Marie Marsh,
John Jeffrey Martin,
Marquise Neal,
Nathan Peck,
Robert Pendilla,
Lucia Spina,
Sebastian Hedges Thomas and
Timothy Ware.
Kinky Boots is produced on Broadway by
Daryl Roth and
Hal Luftig,
James L. Nederlander,
Terry Allen Kramer,
Independent Presenters Network, CJ E&M,
Jayne Baron Sherman, Just for Laughs Theatricals/
Judith Ann Abrams,
Yasuhiro Kawana, Jane Bergere,
Allan S. Gordon &
Adam S. Gordon,
Ken Davenport,
Hunter Arnold, Lucy and Phil Suarez,
Bryan Bantry,
Ron Fierstein and Dorsey Regal,
Jim Kierstead/
Gregory Rae, BB Group/
Christina Papagjika, Michael DeSantis/Patrick Baugh, Br
Ian Smith/Tom and Connie Walsh,
Warren Trepp, and
Jujamcyn Theaters.
Masterworks Broadway is a label of Sony Masterworks. For email updates and information on Masterworks Broadway please visit www.masterworksbroadway.com. For more information on the musical, please visit
www.kinkybootsthemusical.com.