On Stage Tonight: "Kinky Boots"

    On stage tonight in Huntington is the touring version of the Broadway musical Kinky Boots.

    My lovely wife and I saw it earlier this year in New York and loved it - it's very funny and loaded with terrific songs and wonderful characters!

   My pal Dave Lavender wrote a story about the show for the Herald-Dispatch, which you can read right here - and here's an excerpt:

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   Five years ago Cyndi Lauper proved that girls (and guys in drag) do just want to have fun, and they did, and they still are in a major league way.

   Lauper's smash-hit musical Kinky Boots, which she wrote with Harvey Fierstein (Hairspray) received 13 Tony nominations in 2013 and took home six 2013 Tony Awards, the most of any show in the season, including Best Musical, Best Score (Cyndi Lauper), Best Choreography (Jerry Mitchell), Best Orchestrations (Stephen Oremus) and Best Sound Design (John Shivers). The show also received the Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and Broadway.com Awards for Best Musical, and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Album, along with many other accolades.

   Kinky Boots, which is still on Broadway, also plays in London's West End, in Australia, and has its U.S. national tour coming in to strut its stuff as the Marshall Artists Series 2017-2018 continues at the Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center.

   Some tickets still remain for Kinky Boots, which is set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26. Tickets are $97.87, $81.50, $70.58 and $64.04 and can be ordered by calling 304-696-6656, online at Ticketmaster.com or at the Marshall Artists Series box office in the Joan C. Edwards Playhouse on 5th Avenue across from Marshall University's Student Center from noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For information, call 304-696-3326.

   Based on a true story, Kinky Boots takes you from a gentlemen's shoe factory in Northampton to the glamorous catwalks of Milan. In the musical, Charlie Price is struggling to live up to his father's expectations and continue the family business of Price & Son. With the factory's future hanging in the balance, help arrives in the unlikely but spectacular form of Lola, a fabulous performer in need of some sturdy new stilettos. Their new line of shoes helps save the family-run shoe factory.