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''Kinky Boots'' is a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Tony, Emmy and Grammy-winner Cyndi Lauper and a book by Tony-winner Harvey Fierstein. Based on the 2005 film ''Kinky Boots'' by Geoff Deane and Tim Firth, which was inspired by true events, the musical tells the story of Charlie Price, who inherits a shoe factory from his father. To save the business, Charlie forms an unlikely partnership with cabaret performer and drag queen, Lola. With Lola's help, Charlie develops a plan to produce a line of high-heeled boots. In the process, he and Lola discover that they are not so different after all. Following the show's conception in 2006, the creative team was assembled by 2010. The original production of ''Kinky Boots'' premiered at the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago in October 2012, with both direction and choreography by Jerry Mitchell, and starring Stark Sands and Billy Porter as Charlie and Lola, respectively. It made its Broadway debut at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on April 4, 2013 following previews that began on March 3, 2013. The musical began its US tour in 2014. Having been less well received by theatre critics and at the box office, initially, than another 2013 Broadway production, ''Matilda the Musical'', ''Kinky Boots'' entered the 2013 awards season as an underdog. However, less than a month after opening, Kinky Boots surpassed this rival with audiences in weekly box office gross and later enjoyed a post-Tony boost in advance sales. The production earned a season-high 13 nominations and 6 Tony wins, including Best Musical and Best Score for Lauper in her first outing as a Broadway songwriter, making her the first woman to win alone in that category. The musical's cast album premiered at number one on the Billboard Cast Albums Chart and number fifty-one on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart. ==Background and creation== ''Kinky Boots'' is based on the 2005 British film of the same name, which was, in turn, inspired by a 1999 episode of the BBC2 documentary television series ''Trouble at the Top''. It followed the true story of Steve Pateman, who was struggling to save his family-run shoe factory from closure and decided to produce fetish footwear for men, under the brand name "Divine Footwear". Daryl Roth, a Tony Award-winning producer,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Daryl Roth )〕 saw the film at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and fell in love with its "heart and soul". She felt that its themes resonated and thought that the story had potential as source material for a musical. Independently, Hal Luftig saw the film in London and agreed "that its heart and humanity (and bigger-than-life leading 'lady') would translate well to musical theatre." Within a year, Roth secured the rights to adapt the film to the stage and partnered with Luftig, a Tony and Olivier Award-winning producer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ibdb.com/person.php?id=22131 )〕 By mid-2008, Roth and Luftig were in discussions with a potential director, Jerry Mitchell, but they still had not found writers. When Roth sent Mitchell the DVD of the film, he was enthusiastic about it. Roth and Luftig hired Mitchell to direct and Harvey Fierstein to write the book.〔 Mitchell knew that Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper were friends, and he thought they would make a good team to create the musical.〔 Fierstein agreed and eventually approached Lauper to write the songs〔 because he "saw in the adaptation an opportunity to work with someone with a big musical range, 'somebody who could write club music,' ... along with show tunes." Lauper joined the creative team in June 2010. Lauper's last project before ''Kinky Boots'' had been the album ''Memphis Blues'', while Fierstein was working on ''Newsies'' when he began ''Kinky Boots''.〔 The work marked Lauper's debut as a musical theatre songwriter,〔 although she had some theatrical experience, having performed on Broadway in the 2006 Roundabout Theatre Company production of ''The Threepenny Opera''. Among Fierstein's prior experiences were works about drag queens: ''La Cage aux Folles'' and ''Torch Song Trilogy''. Lauper has said that she identifies with drag queens. Fierstein and Lauper had both gained previous critical acclaim and honors in their respective fields. Fierstein had won four Tonys: acting and writing awards for ''Torch Song Trilogy'', an acting Tony for ''Hairspray'', and one for writing the book of ''La Cage''; Lauper is a chart-topping singer-songwriter and actress who had won Grammy, Emmy and many other awards for her songs and performances.〔 Fierstein noted a change in focus between the film "about the saving of a factory" and the musical, which include "drag queens singing as they pass along the assembly line."〔〔 He said the main difference is that the musical is, "at its core, about two young men who come from seemingly opposite worlds who figure out that they have a lot in common, beginning with the need to stand up to their dads."〔 Lauper's inspirations ranged from listening as a child to her parents' recordings of ''South Pacific'' and ''West Side Story'', as well as musical inspirations as diverse as Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" and pop singer Lana Del Rey.〔 In a broadcast interview with Patrick Healy of ''The New York Times'', Lauper and Fierstein said that, in adapting the film, they stressed themes of community and the universality of the father-son bond as vehicles to explore the issues of tolerance and self-acceptance. ''Kinky Boots'' was given a reading on October 6, 2011. Lauper was actively engaged in refining the material once the cast began readings.〔 In January 2012, Roth announced that the show would be workshopped that month, and that Stark Sands and Billy Porter had been cast in the starring roles. In August 2012, the producers announced the Broadway opening date of April 4, 2013.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kinky Boots (musical)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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