‘Kinky Boots’ Sets Summer Return Off Broadway

The intercourse is again within the heel.

Stage 42 introduced on Thursday that an Off Broadway revival of “Kinky Boots,” the Cyndi Lauper-Harvey Fierstein collaboration that received the Tony Award for finest new musical in 2013, would start performances on the theater in July.

The revival on the 499-seat Shubert theater is ready to be directed by Jerry Mitchell (“La Cage Aux Folles,” “Legally Blonde”), who directed and choreographed the unique Broadway manufacturing, which received him his second Tony for choreography.

The texture-good musical tells the story of a younger Englishman, Charlie Worth, who makes an attempt to avoid wasting his household’s shoe manufacturing facility by making boots for drag performers. The Broadway manufacturing — which starred Stark Sands as Worth and Billy Porter because the drag queen Lola, a efficiency for which Porter received a Tony — closed in April 2019 after 34 preview and a pair of,505 common performances.

In his critic’s decide evaluate, the New York Instances critic Ben Brantley known as the musical, which options music and lyrics by Lauper and a ebook by Fierstein, “a shameless emotional button pusher.” He described its pulsing, earworm-y rating as performing “like a pop star on Ecstasy.” (The solid recording received a Grammy for finest musical theater album.)

“Kinky Boots” has been a major hit within the 9 years because it opened on Broadway, the place it grossed $297 million and received six Tony Awards. The present has toured North America and Britain, and productions have been staged in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Poland and Spain.

The Off Broadway manufacturing is scheduled to start performances July 26 and open Aug. 25 at Stage 42 in Hell’s Kitchen. No casting has been introduced.