'Kinky Boots,' Musical Mixing Fetish and Family Business, Leads Tony NominationsThe flamboyant new Broadway show about reviving a family shoe business by catering to drag performers today earned 13 Tony nominations.
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Kinky Boots, the new Broadway musical about a drag queen who helps rescue a family business,dominatedtoday's Tony nominations. It racked up 13 nods across categories, including best musical, director and score. With music from pop icon Cyndi Lauper and book by award-winning writer Harvey Feirstein, the production follows protagonist Charlie Price as he tries to save hisfamily business.
虽然玩的背景可能是年代的前卫ome, with its cross-dressing and fetish footwear, its themes will be familiar to many entrepreneurs and business owners. Price, played by best-actor nominated Stark Sands, suddenly inherits his father's floundering shoe factory and must devise a plan to save it from bankruptcy. To turn the factory around, he partnes with a drag queen named Lola to create a successful line of high-heeled boots for drag performers.
Kinky Bootsis based on a 2005 British film with the same name and isshowingat the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York, N.Y.
