Kinky Boots
The exhilarating true story about a struggling shoe factory that will lift your spirits to high-heeled heights!
Now available for licensing!
Winner of six Tony Awards including Best Musical, Kinky Boots features a joyous, Tony-winning score by Cyndi Lauper and a hilarious, uplifting book by four-time Tony winner Harvey Fierstein.
Charlie Price has reluctantly inherited his father's shoe factory, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. Trying to live up to his father's legacy and save his family business, Charlie finds inspiration in the form of Lola. A fabulous entertainer in need of some sturdy stilettos, Lola turns out to be the one person who can help Charlie become the man he's meant to be. As they work to turn the factory around, this unlikely pair finds that they have more in common than they ever dreamed possible... and discovers that when you change your mind about someone, you can change your whole world.
Kinky Boots is full of opportunities for a theatre to flex their artistic muscles with elaborate costumes, exhilarating choreography and a truly moving and powerful story. A sure-fire crowd pleaser, Kinky Boots will have your audiences dancing in the aisle and discovering why sometimes, the best way to fit in is to stand out!
Show Essentials
Songs
Price and Son Theme
The Most Beautiful Thing in the World
Take What You Got
The Land of Lola
Step One
Sex is in the Heel
The History of Wrong Guys
I'm Not My Father's Son
Everybody Say Yeah!
What a Woman Wants
In This Corner
Charlies's Sad Soliloquy/Soul of a Man
Hold Me in Your Heart
Raise You Up
Just Be
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"Raise You Up" from Kinky Boots on Broadway
"Step One" from Kinky Boots on Broadway
"History of Wrong Guys" from Kinky Boots on Broadway
"The Sex is in the Heel" from Kinky Boots on Broadway
"Everybody Say Yeah" from Kinky Boots on Broadway
Behind the recording of the Kinky Boots original cast album
Recording "Soul of a Man" for the Kinky Boots original cast album
Recording "The Sex is in the Heel" for the Kinky Boots original cast album
Interview with Kinky Boots authors Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein
New York Times interview with Kinky Boots authors Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein
An intimate performance of "Not My Father's Son" by Bill Porter and Stark Sands
Harvey Fierstein discusses Kinky Boots with the Wall Street Journal
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Concert Selections for Kinky Boots
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RAISE YOU UP/JUST BE
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First Performance Fee:
$175
Each Additional Performance:
$100
Music by
Cyndi Lauper
Lyrics by
Cyndi Lauper
Arranged by
Stephen Oremus
Orchestrated by
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Stephen Oremus
Arrangement Details
Song Type:
Show Extraction
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Starting Key:
D
Estimated duration
6 min 10 sec
Instrumentation
(1x) FULL SCORE, (2x) PIANO/VOCAL SCORE, (20x) VOCAL BOOK, (1x) REED (Alto Saxophone), (1x) TRUMPET, (1x) TROMBONE, (2x) KEYBOARD 1 [can be used as PIANO/CONDUCTOR], (1x) KEYBOARD 2, (1x) GUITAR 1 (Electric), (1x) GUITAR 2 (Electric), (1x) BASS (Electric), (1x) DRUMS, (1x) VIOLIN, (1x) CELLO