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STAGE TUBE: Billy Porter Shares Touching Speech on PRIDE Following KINKY BOOTS Performance

By: Jun. 28, 2015
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Broadway's celebration of the SCOTUS ruling to legalize gay marriage ranged from in-depth Facebook posts to public speeches. Following Friday night's performance, KINKY BOOTS star Billy Porter took center stage to address the crowd and share what the ruling means to him personally. Check out the full video!

Multiple casts decided to publicly speak on marriage equality after Friday night's performances. Click here to watch a speech from FUN HOME's Beth Malone and here for IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU's Tyne Daly. Click here for more PRIDE statements from the Broadway community.

Kinky Boots tells the uplifting and heartwarming tale of Charlie Price, a young man reluctantly taking over his family's struggling business. Charlie meets and finds inspiration in Lola and together, the 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. The winner of six 2013 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Kinky Boots features a Tony Award-winning score by pop icon Cyndi Lauper, a book by Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, and direction and choreography by Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell.

The current cast of Kinky Boots includes Tony Award-winner Billy Porter, Andy Kelso, Jeanna de Waal, Daniel StewartSherman, Cortney Wolfson, Marcus Neville, Nick Rashad Burroughs, Paul Canaan, Sean Patrick Doyle, Kevin SmithKirkwood, Kyle Post, Joey Taranto, Adinah Alexander,Eugene Barry-Hill, Stephen Berger, Anna Eilinsfeld, Mia Gentile, Natalie Joy Johnson, Jake Katzman, D'Andre Lee, Eric Leviton, Ellyn Marie Marsh, John Jeffrey Martin,Graham Montgomery,Abby Mueller, Jake Odmark, Nathan Peck, Robert Pendilla, Jennifer Perry, Stephen Tewksbury, Jeremy T. Villas, and Timothy Ware.







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