Photo Coverage: Kirstin Maldonado Takes First Bows In KINKY BOOTS

By: Feb. 03, 2018
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Everybody say yeah! Staring last night, February 2, Grammy Award-winner Kirstin Maldonado, of the hit acapella group Pentatonix, made her Broadway debut as "Lauren" in Kinky Boots on Broadway. Maldonado will remain in the production for a limited run through Sunday, April 8, 2018.

Check out photos from Kirstin's first bows below!

Show-stopping vocals, charismatic confidence, and fighting spirit on full display, GRAMMY® Award-winning multiplatinum singer, songwriter, and one-fifth of Pentatonix Kirstin Maldonado emerges as a solo powerhouse on her debut L O V E EP [RCA Records]. Embracing a variety of electronic influences ranging from James Blaketo Alina Baraz, she expresses a different side of herself, illuminating dancefloor-ready soundscapes with her seismic and stunning delivery. Kirstin started honing the voice millions know and love as a child in Arlington, TX.

The winner of six 2013 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Kinky Bootsfeatures a Tony Award-winning score by Cyndi Lauper, a book by Tony Award-winner Harvey Fiersteinand 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.

Photo Credit: Jennifer Broski

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Caroline Bowman

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Kirstin Maldonado

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Caroline Bowman, Kirstin Maldonado

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Caroline Bowman, Kirstin Maldonado

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J. Harrison Ghee, Jake Shears

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J. Harrison Ghee, Jake Shears

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J. Harrison Ghee, Jake Shears

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J. Harrison Ghee, Jake Shears

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Caroline Bowman, J. Harrison Ghee, Jake Shears, Kirstin Maldonado, Marcus Neville

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Caroline Bowman, J. Harrison Ghee, Jake Shears, Kirstin Maldonado, Marcus Neville

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Daniel Stewart Sherman, Caroline Bowman, J. Harrison Ghee, Jake Shears, Kirstin Maldonado, Marcus Neville

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Caroline Bowman, Kirstin Maldonado, Jake Shears, J. Harrison Ghee and the cast of KINKY BOOTS

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Caroline Bowman, Kirstin Maldonado, Jake Shears, and the cast of KINKY BOOTS

Kinky Boots
Caroline Bowman, Kirstin Maldonado, Jake Shears, and the cast of KINKY BOOTS


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