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Title: 'Kinky Boots' Walk Cyndi Lauper To Broadway
Post by: DriftingCrow on May 04, 2013, 09:41:21 AM
Post by: DriftingCrow on May 04, 2013, 09:41:21 AM
http://www.npr.org/2013/04/04/176136297/kinky-boots-walk-cyndi-lauper-to-broadway (http://www.npr.org/2013/04/04/176136297/kinky-boots-walk-cyndi-lauper-to-broadway)
Author: Jeff Lunden Source: NPR Morning Edition
"If you ask Billy Porter, one of the lead actors in the Broadway musical Kinky Boots, what the show's about, he's got a succinct answer: "It's about two people who have daddy issues," Porter says. "And one of them just happens to wear a dress." " Kinky Boots is a 2006 film based on a true story of a struggling owner of a shoe factory who partners up with a drag queen to make sexy boots for male-sized feet.
Kinky Boots is a new musical who's script is written by Harvey Fierstein (who wrote the musical version of La Cage aux Folles and music written by Cyndi Lauper.
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Apparently, it just recently started showing on Broadway. I love Cyndi Lauper, and she's done a lot of work with the LGBT community, so I hope it's not a show that caters to stereotypes.
Author: Jeff Lunden Source: NPR Morning Edition
"If you ask Billy Porter, one of the lead actors in the Broadway musical Kinky Boots, what the show's about, he's got a succinct answer: "It's about two people who have daddy issues," Porter says. "And one of them just happens to wear a dress." " Kinky Boots is a 2006 film based on a true story of a struggling owner of a shoe factory who partners up with a drag queen to make sexy boots for male-sized feet.
Kinky Boots is a new musical who's script is written by Harvey Fierstein (who wrote the musical version of La Cage aux Folles and music written by Cyndi Lauper.
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Apparently, it just recently started showing on Broadway. I love Cyndi Lauper, and she's done a lot of work with the LGBT community, so I hope it's not a show that caters to stereotypes.
Title: Re: 'Kinky Boots' Walk Cyndi Lauper To Broadway
Post by: Shana A on May 04, 2013, 12:44:53 PM
Post by: Shana A on May 04, 2013, 12:44:53 PM
I watched the movie a few years ago, thought it was nicely done and humorous without being offensive to trans people.
Shana
Shana