"Kinky Boots"

We missed this last year when it came to town with Billy Porter starring, so we jumped on the dance to buy tickets this spring when the national touring show was announced for Pittsburgh, and last night we saw this Tony Award winning show.  It was terrific and a great theatrical experience.

A story with a great message underlying a presentation that was filled with tremendous energy, great choreography, and a fantastic score with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper.  Tremendous performances by lead actors J. Harrison Ghee as Lola and Adam Kaplan as Charlie, and I can't think of a show that had two such rousing numbers as "Everybody Say Yeah" that closed the first act and "Raise You Up" that closed the show, not to mention a few other show stoppers such as "Sex is in the Heel", "The History of Wrong Guys", and "Hold Me In Your Heart".  That Cyndi Lauper knows what she's doing.

I imagine that "Kinky Boots" will be one of those shows that will be around for a long, long time, touring constantly.  It is one that I would be happy to see again some day, and one that I would recommend to anyone.

Four stars all the way from The Grandstander and Mrs. Grandstander.

This leads to another question:  Will it ever become a staple on the High School Musical circuit?  Hard to imagine that skittish school districts would give their blessing to a show that features drag queens, but you never know.  Every spring some high school or another is doing "A Chorus Line" and featuring some sixteen year old girl doing that "T & A" song, and I never thought that that would happen, so I suppose that we may see Lola and her Angels trodding the boards at some high school in the next decade or so.