TV Exclusive: Meet the 2013 Tony Nominees- Jerry Mitchell on His Effortless KINKY BOOTS Collaboration

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BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was thrilled to sit down and speak with nearly all of this year's Tony Award nominees at the official Tonys Meet & Greet on May 1, 2013, and we will be bringing you special coverage on all of them throughout the awards season. Today we bring you Jerry Mitchell, a nominee for Best Choreography and Direction of a Musical for Kinky Boots. Check out what he had to say below!

Broadway and West End debuts as the director of Legally Blonde (Olivier Award for Best Musical, Tony nomination and Drama Desk nomination for choreography, Drama Desk nomination for direction.) Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics' Circle Awards for choreographing the 2005 revival of La Cage aux Folles, as well as a Tony nomination as choreographer of The Full Monty, Hairspray, Never Gonna Dance and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Twenty years ago while dancing on Broadway in The Will Rogers Follies, Jerry conceived and created Broadway Bares, a comedy burlesque show performed annually for the charity, Broadway Cares.

From Grammy Award-winning pop icon Cyndi Lauper and four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein comes the exhilarating new musical Kinky Boots, directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Jerry Mitchell. Charlie Price (Tony nominee Stark Sands) has suddenly 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 (Billy Porter). 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.

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