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Charlie Price is forced to step in and save his family's shoe factory in Northern England, following the sudden death of his father. Help comes from the unlikeliest angel, a fabulous drag performer named Lola. Together, this improbable duo not only revitalizes the nearly bankrupt business, but helps one another grow into the men their fathers always dreamed their sons would become and transforms an entire community through the power of acceptance.

Try-out : Bank of America Theatre (Chicago): Octobre 2012

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.

Act I
"Price & Son Theme/The Most Beautiful Thing" – Mr. Price, Young Charlie, Young Simon/Lola, Nicola, Charlie & Company
"Take What You Got" – Harry, Charlie & Club Patrons
"Land of Lola" – Lola & Angels
"Land of Lola" (reprise)[27] – Lola & Angels‡
"Charlie's Soliloquy" – Charlie
"Step One" – Charlie
"Sex is in the Heel" – Lola, Pat, George, Angels, Lauren, Charlie & Factory Workers
"The History of Wrong Guys" – Lauren
"Not My Father's Son" – Lola & Charlie
"Everybody Say Yeah" – Charlie, Lola, Lauren, Angels & Factory Workers

Act II
"Price & Son Theme" (reprise) – Company‡
"What a Woman Wants" – Lola, Pat, Don, George & the Ladies of the Factory
"In This Corner" – Lola, Don, Pat, Trish, Angels & Factory Workers
"Charlie's Soliloquy" (reprise) – Charlie
"Soul of a Man" – Charlie
"The History of Wrong Guys" (reprise) – Lauren‡
"Hold Me in Your Heart" – Lola
"Raise You Up/Just Be" – Company

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