Kinky Boots celebrated its five-year anniversary on Broadway April 4 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
The winner of six 2013 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Kinky Boots features a Tony-winning score by Cyndi Lauper, a book by Tony winner Harvey Fierstein, and direction and choreography by Tony winner Jerry Mitchell.
Emmy winner Wayne Brady currently heads the cast as Lola, with American Idol winner David Cook as Charlie Price and Grammy winner Kirstin Maldonado as Lauren.
Flip through photos of the celebration below:
Kinky Boots tells the story of Charlie Price, a young man who reluctantly takes over his family’s struggling shoe factory and is looking for a fresh idea. Charlie meets and finds inspiration in the drag queen Lola, and together they discover that it takes a good friend to make a great pair.
Kinky Boots is produced on Broadway by Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig, James L. Nederlander, Terry Allen Kramer, Independent Presenters Network, CJ E&M, Jayne Baron Sherman, Just for Laughs Theatricals/Judith Ann Abrams, Yasuhiro Kawana, Jane Bergere, Allan S. Gordon & Adam S. Gordon, Ken Davenport, Hunter Arnold, Lucy and Phil Suarez, Bryan Bantry, Ron Fierstein and Dorsey Regal, Jim Kierstead/Gregory Rae, BB Group/Christina Papagjika, Michael DeSantis/Patrick Baugh, Brian Smith/Tom and Connie Walsh, Warren Trepp, and Jujamcyn Theaters.