STAGE TUBE: THE BALANCING ACT Chats With KINKY BOOTS' Cyndi Lauper About Giving Back to The LGBT Community

Lifetime's The Balancing Act talks with KINKY BOOTS' composer/lyricist Cyndi Lauper, producers Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig and actor Kyle Taylor Parker, who plays Lola in the national tour, about the musicals message of acceptance and how the show is giving back to the LGBT community.

KINKY BOOTS opened on Broadway on April 4, 2013 and went on to win six Tony Awards, including Best Musical.Kinky Boots features a Tony Award-winning score by Lauper, a book by Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, and direction and choreography by Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell.

Now in its third year, the musical tells the uplifting and heartwarming tale of Charlie Price (currently played by Andy Kelso), a young man reluctantly taking over his family's struggling business. Charlie meets and finds inspiration in Lola (currently played by Billy Porter) 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.