Kinky Boots is a musical that opened on Broadway in 2013, winning the Tony Award for Best Musical and various other awards that season. The show has a book by Harvey Fierstein and songs by Cyndi Lauper.[1] Kinky Boots is based on the 2005 British film of the same name,[2] which was, in turn, inspired by a true story.[3]
The original production was directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell and orchestrated by Stephen Oremus. Scenic design was by David Rockwell, costumes by Gregg Barnes, lighting by Kenneth Posner and sound by John Shivers. The cast starred Billy Porter as Lola and Stark Sands as Charlie and featured Annaleigh Ashford as Lauren.[4]
Early in the 2013 awards season, Kinky Boots did well, receiving Drama League Award nominations for Distinguished Production of a Musical and Distinguished Performance, for both Porter and Sands,[5] and winning for Distinguished Production.[6] The show received nine Outer Critics Circle Award nominations, winning three, including Outstanding New Broadway Musical, Outstanding New Score and Outstanding Actor in a Musical (Porter).[7] The musical received only two Drama Desk Award nominations, however, and only one win: Porter for Outstanding Actor in a Musical.[8]
Kinky Boots received a season-high 13 Tony Award nominations.[4] Matilda, which The New York Times described as the "unalloyed critical hit" of the season, received 12 nominations, 11 of them in the same categories as Kinky Boots.[9] In addition to its critical success, Matilda had won the Drama Desk Award for outstanding musical and had set a record by winning the most Olivier Awards in history.[10] Nevertheless, Kinky Boots won a season-high six Tonys, including Best Musical, which the press described as an upset, and Lauper's win for Best Score made her the first woman to win alone in that category.[11] The creative team are Americans, and reviewer David Cote, an American writing in The Guardian, judged that the show's win was a case of "the balance of love going to a homegrown American musical, Kinky Boots, over the British import Matilda."[12] Kinky Boots also won the 2013 Artios Award for Outstanding Achievement in Casting in the Broadway musical category.[13]
Kinky Boots won the award for Best Musical Theater Album at the Grammy Awards in January 2014.[14]
Awards and nominations
editOriginal Broadway production
edit| Year | Award | Category | Nominee | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Drama League Award | Distinguished Production of a Musical | Won | |
| Distinguished Performance | Billy Porter | Nominated[6] | ||
| Stark Sands | Nominated[6] | |||
| Outer Critics Circle Award | Outstanding New Broadway Musical | Won[7] | ||
| Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Harvey Fierstein | Nominated[7] | ||
| Outstanding New Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Cyndi Lauper | Won[7] | ||
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Jerry Mitchell | Nominated[7] | ||
| Outstanding Choreographer | Nominated[7] | |||
| Outstanding Costume Design (Play or Musical) | Gregg Barnes | Nominated[7] | ||
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Billy Porter | Won[7] | ||
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Daniel Stewart Sherman | Nominated[7] | ||
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Annaleigh Ashford | Nominated[7] | ||
| Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Billy Porter | Won[8] | |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Annaleigh Ashford | Nominated[8] | ||
| Tony Award | Best Musical | Won[4] | ||
| Best Book of a Musical | Harvey Fierstein | Nominated[4] | ||
| Best Original Score | Cyndi Lauper | Won[4] | ||
| Best Actor in a Musical | Billy Porter | Won[4] | ||
| Stark Sands | Nominated[4] | |||
| Best Featured Actress in a Musical | Annaleigh Ashford | Nominated[4] | ||
| Best Scenic Design of a Musical | David Rockwell | Nominated[4] | ||
| Best Costume Design of a Musical | Gregg Barnes | Nominated[4] | ||
| Best Lighting Design of a Musical | Kenneth Posner | Nominated[4] | ||
| Best Sound Design of a Musical | John Shivers | Won[4] | ||
| Best Direction of a Musical | Jerry Mitchell | Nominated[4] | ||
| Best Choreography | Won[4] | |||
| Best Orchestrations | Stephen Oremus | Won[4] | ||
| Artios Award | Outstanding Achievement in Casting | Bernard Telsey & Justin Huff | Won[13] | |
| Astaire Awards | Outstanding Choreographer in a Broadway Show | Jerry Mitchell | Nominated | |
| Outstanding Male Dancer in a Broadway Show | Billy Porter | Nominated | ||
| Charlie Sutton | Nominated | |||
| 2014 | Grammy Award | Best Musical Theater Album | Won[14] | |
Original West End Production
edit| Year | Award | Category | Nominee | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Evening Standard Awards | Best Musical | Won | |
| Best Musical Performance | Killian Donnelly | Nominated | ||
| 2017 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best New Musical | Won | |
| Best Actor in a Musical | Killian Donnelly | Nominated | ||
| Matt Henry | Won | |||
| Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical | Amy Lennox | Nominated | ||
| Best Theatre Choreographer | Jerry Mitchell | Nominated | ||
| Best Costume Design | Gregg Barnes | Won | ||
| Outstanding Achievement in Music | Cyndi Lauper & Stephen Oremus | Nominated | ||
| 2017 | Grammy Award | Best Musical Theater Album | Nominated | |
Original Australian production
edit| Year | Award | Category | Nominee | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Helpmann Awards | Best Musical | Nominated | |
| Best Music Direction | Luke Hunter | Nominated | ||
| Best Choreography in a Musical | Jerry Mitchell | Won | ||
| Best Direction of a Musical | Nominated | |||
| Best Female Actor in a Musical | Sophie Wright | Nominated | ||
| Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical | Teegan Wouters | Nominated | ||
| Best Male Actor in a Musical | Callum Francis | Won | ||
Notes
edit- ^ Ryzik, Melena (2013-03-14). "So Unusual for a Theater Tunesmith". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-11-07.
- ^ "Cyndi Lauper-Harvey Fierstein Musical Kinky Boots Opens in Chicago Oct. 17; Broadway Is Next". playbill.com. Playbill. 17 October 2012. Archived from the original on 5 February 2013. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
- ^ Ferri, Josh. "Fetish Footwear, Acclaimed Film & Rockin' Broadway Musical: Explore the Many Steps of Kinky Boots", Broadway.com, March 16, 2013, accessed November 14, 2013
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Purcell, Carey (2013-06-09). "Kinky Boots, Vanya and Sonia, Pippin and Virginia Woolf Are Big Winners at 67th Annual Tony Awards". Playbill. Archived from the original on 2013-06-11. Retrieved 2013-06-10.
- ^ Gans, Andrew (2013-04-25). "Nominees Announced for 79th Annual Drama League Awards". Playbill. Archived from the original on 2013-04-26. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
- ^ a b c Gans, Andrew (May 17, 2013). "Kinky Boots, Pippin, Vanya and Sonia, Virginia Woolf and More Win Drama League Awards". Playbill. Archived from the original on June 15, 2013. Retrieved May 17, 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Gans, Andrew (May 13, 2013). "Pippin Is Big Winner of 2012-13 Outer Critics Circle Awards". Playbill. Retrieved May 13, 2013.
- ^ a b c Hetrick, Adam (2013-05-19). "Billy Porter, Andrea Martin, Pippin, Matilda, Vanya and Sonia Win Drama Desk Awards". Playbill. Archived from the original on 2013-06-05. Retrieved 2013-05-20.
- ^ Healy, Patrick (2013-04-30). "It's Kinky Boots vs. Matilda in Tony Nominations". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-11-10.
- ^ "Matilda musical breaks Olivier awards record". BBC. April 15, 2012. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
- ^ Healy, Patrick (2013-06-10). "Kinky Boots Dances to the Top of the Tonys". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
- ^ Cote, David (2013-06-10). "Tony awards 2013: Matilda left wanting as Kinky Boots dances to victory: Tony voters stuck to the American side of Broadway – even if Kinky Boots came with an English pedigree". The Guardian. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
- ^ a b "Artios Awards" Archived 2013-11-02 at the Wayback Machine, Casting Society of America, accessed November 20, 2013
- ^ a b Hetrick, Adam (2014-01-26). "Kinky Boots Wins Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album". Playbill. Archived from the original on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 2014-01-27.
External links
edit- Official website
- Kinky Boots at the Internet Broadway Database
- Kinky Boots at the Playbill Vault (archive)
- Kinky Boots at Tony Awards.com