Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
#1Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Posted: 5/18/13 at 11:07am
EVERYBODY!
http://youtu.be/6cQZIssXYA8
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Posted: 5/18/13 at 11:35amAw....that was really nice. Particularly Lauper getting chocked up at the end.
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#3Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Posted: 5/18/13 at 11:39am
I love Bernie's face at about 1:45 and Cyndi at the end.
....but the world goes 'round
ajh
Broadway Star Joined: 5/6/11
#4Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Posted: 5/18/13 at 12:08pmWhat a great promo film; I fancied seeing this anyway but this is really the icing on the cake. I also think that, charismatic as Harvey F is, Cyndi Lauper is a completely winning frontperson for the show -she is adorable and authentic. The bit where she tears up is a joy. Love her, and love what I've heard so far of her score. Hoping to see the show in October.
#5Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Posted: 5/18/13 at 12:11pmAnd whatever happens at the Tonys, she has written a great, great score.
ajh
Broadway Star Joined: 5/6/11
#7Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Posted: 5/18/13 at 12:36pmWould you say that it's the favorite? Much as I enjoyed and admired Matilda as a whole I think it only has about 4 really good songs, the rest of it is serviceable.
#8Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Posted: 5/18/13 at 1:09pmI didn't realize until this video that Cyndi could be the first woman to win Best Score - I guess solo? - so that is pretty cool
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DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#9Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Posted: 5/18/13 at 1:16pmNICE! I really was blah about both Kinky and Matilda. But I do love CL and HF and I want them to win. I want them to clean up.
HUSSY POWER!
------ HUSSY POWER!
wicked4l
Broadway Star Joined: 5/19/06
#10Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Posted: 5/18/13 at 1:18pmI've always been cheering on Kinky Boots for the Tony's, but now that I know that a woman has never won before i DEFINITELY want Kinky to win!
#11Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Posted: 5/18/13 at 1:59pm
What I also find impressive about Lauper is that very few of her early hits were written by her. Only She Bop and Time After Time (and the forgotten Goonies song) were co-written by her, and even her recent songs mostly have co-writers. But, over the years, she has honed her craft and found her voice.
She also choked up when talking to Patrick Healy of the New York Times:
"Ms. Lauper, a Queens native, began crying on Tuesday as she described finding success so close to home. 'My whole life I’ve been chasing work around the whole world, but I never would have imagined that I only had to look in my own backyard to find something like this,' she said."
I wonder which one came first (the clip or the Healy quote). I'm guessing it was the Healy quote, and she knew she wasn't going to be able to say it again in the clip without choking up.
"What was the name of that cheese that I like?"
"you can't run away forever...but there's nothing wrong with getting a good head start"
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#12Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Posted: 5/18/13 at 3:45pmThanks PJ for posting--there won't be an empty seat if this is used for promotion--what a great collection of positives and topped by an emotional Ms Lauper--what a show-what a woman!
KathyNYC2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/10
#13Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Posted: 5/18/13 at 5:01pm
MikeM..the quote from Patrick Healy was from a Times article written on April 30th immediately after the Tony Nominations.
The ABC quote is from ABC's "Person of the Week" segment of the ABC's Nightly News broadcast on Friday May 3rd. The interview actually took place on May 2nd.
Very close together.
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#14Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Posted: 5/18/13 at 5:06pmCyndi Lauper will be the first woman to ever win for best score in her own right (previous winners were part of a team). I think she's going to take it, personally (and deserves it, richly). Ironically, my favorite songs of hers are the ones she wrote (she didn't write "True Colors"?)
Owen22
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/11
#15Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Posted: 5/18/13 at 5:29pm
"And whatever happens at the Tonys, she has written a great, great score."
Okay, its a good score, and much better than most pop artist's attempts at writing for Broadway.
But please. Its far from a "great" score, let alone a great, GREAT one. And yes, I know its opinion, but when you attach such superlatives to such things, in slowly lowers the standards of what a truly "great" score should be.
I have no problem, however, with Cyndi winning the Tony, as I think Minchin's score is merely "good" as well (though I think Matilda a finer show).
#16Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Posted: 5/18/13 at 6:20pm
And yes, I know its opinion, but when you attach such superlatives to such things, in slowly lowers the standards of what a truly "great" score should be.
Don't be a silly, over-dramatic goose. It does no such thing.
I'll say it again: Cyndi Lauper has written a GREAT score.
#17Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Posted: 5/18/13 at 6:29pm
I get the feeling Matilda has somewhat believed it's own hype coming over from London and may have gone into awards season a little nonchalant. Meanwhile, Kinky Boots has come out swinging so hard you'd think Eileen Rand was behind it.
I'd love to see Cyndi Lauper win, I had no idea she'd be the first woman to win for score on her own.
#18Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Posted: 5/18/13 at 6:30pmCyndi Lauper deserves to win. That's all there is to it. She has written one of the best scores I have heard in a LONG time. I like Matilda's score, but Kinky Boots's score is something else.
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#19Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Posted: 5/19/13 at 4:33amI think it's a sure thing to say at this point that Kinky Boots will win best musical.
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#20Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Posted: 5/19/13 at 5:44am
I don't know Kinky Boots very well so I might regret posting this in 2 months time but it does seem to me to be a pretty pedestrian, 'feel good' score (as opposed to a triumph). What exactly do you guys like about it? Meh. I feel it is unusual for this this forum not to back the artistic alternative.
Well to each their own, as Matilda sings in QUIET:
There's no way of knowing if red
Means the same thing in your head
As red means in my head
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
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dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#21Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Posted: 5/19/13 at 7:41am
I've said this in another thread aboaut the two shows (Both of which I've seen, neither did I LOVE, but liked both, liking Kinky a little more.): The audience reaction in KINKY is insane. There is so much love for this show, every song rec'd applause like I've never heard sustained throughout an evening. I cannot say the same of the audience reaction during Matilda.
Actually, I will liken the energy I felt in the theater the night I saw the show (I believe it was the night after opening) was more like the energy one would expect at a closing night performance. Palpable. A-MA-ZING.
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KathyNYC2
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#22Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Posted: 5/19/13 at 7:59am
Having just seen Matilda, I personally think the problems some people have with the Matilda music - no matter if it is "superior" or not..is that you can't understand the words a good part of the time. Maybe it's different in various parts of the theater, but from where I was sitting, I was dealing with #1 really loud sound volume which gave the words some extra blur/echo feature (which made dialogue even hard to understand) and #2 the British accents were really uneven. I can honestly say I missed at least half the lyrics and a good amount of dialogue due to poor sound.
That's really distracting when you are trying to get into a show and enjoy what is being presented. It's one thing to say the music is superior when listening to a recording or reading the score/lyrics - but it's entirely different thing to say it's superior after just hearing it at a performance where the sound is so unreliable.
Kinky Boots = certainly the music is not as "complicated" in style (though I loved individual songs in both shows). But as even Ben Brantley said in his review, Cyndi Lauper really knows how to sell a song and KB has the best closing number since Hairspray. I don't think the current production of Matilda is doing its score any favors...during the performance I saw at least.
Updated On: 5/19/13 at 07:59 AM
KathyNYC2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/10
#23Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Posted: 5/19/13 at 8:02am
Sorry..double post.
Updated On: 5/19/13 at 08:02 AM
Theater'sBestFriend
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#24Everybody's Talking About Kinky Boots
Posted: 5/19/13 at 10:27am
"Having just seen Matilda, I personally think the problems some people have with the music - no matter if it is 'superior' or not..is that you can't understand the words a good part of the time."
I think that is part of it. Also, the advance perception about Matilda may have contributed to an expectation of "superior" music, but I don't think it actually is. The songs are for the most part melodically straightforward, rhythmically simple and stylistically homogeneous. It doesn't surprise me that several posters described a monotonous effect that left them unengaged or feeling flat.
Kinky Boots's score is actually much more sophisticated. It references a range of genres -- R&B, hard core rock, gospel, disco, and ballad. Each one is used as a "voice" that articulates a character, creates their world, and propels the story of their encounter. The styles start out seeming incongruous, like the characters, but by the end are woven together like the plot line. It makes you FEEL the story. Although trumpeting her musical intelligence isn't part of her "schtick," I think Lauper is a great musician and knows what she's doing.
I think that's a part of why, as someone else said above, "There is so much love for this show, every song rec'd applause like I've never heard sustained throughout an evening. I cannot say the same of the audience reaction during Matilda."
