Support Take It From The Top: Bid to Meet KINKY BOOTS' Wayne Brady

More than ten years after making his Broadway debut as Billy Flynn in the hit revival of CHICAGO, Emmy-winner Wayne Brady took on the challenge of replacing Tony-winner Billy Porter as the glamourous and determined fighter Lola in the Broadway smash KINKY BOOTS.

His limited run comes to an end on March 27th when Alan Mingo steps into the role, but first Charitybuzz is hosting an online auction where the highest bidder receives two VIP tickets for a performance of KINKY BOOTS and a visit with Wayne Brady after the show.

The winning bid will benefit Take It From The Top, a National Arts Alliance dedicated to providing quality education enrichment through music, dance and theatre to students and other organizations nationwide. Take It From The Top serves as a catalyst for professional mentoring, workshops, and structured programs that inspire confidence and provide students a pathway to attain their highest potential.

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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 Cyndi Lauper, a book by Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, and direction and choreography by Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell. The Grammy Award-winning Original Broadway Cast Recording of Kinky Boots is available on Sony Masterworks Broadway.

In addition to the Broadway production of Kinky Boots, which is about to celebrate three years on Broadway, the show is currently touring the country on its First National Tour, playing an extended run in Toronto at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, and playing an award-winning run in the West End on September 15, 2015 at London's Adelphi Theatre. An Australian production is set to open in October 2016 at Her Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne.

The current Broadway cast of Kinky Boots includes Emmy Award-winner Wayne Brady, Andy Kelso, Jeanna de Waal, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Cortney Wolfson, Marcus Neville, Nick Rashad Burroughs, Pierce Cassedy, SeanPatrick Doyle, Kevin Smith Kirkwood, Fred Odgaard, Hernando Umana, Eugene Barry-Hill, Stephen Berger, Devin Trey Campbell, Mia Gentile, Gaelen Gilliland, Blair Goldberg, Natalie Joy Johnson, Jake Katzman, Ross Lekites, Eric Leviton, Ellyn Marie Marsh, John Jeffrey Martin, Graham Montgomery, Nathan Peck, Robert Pendilla, Jennifer Perry,Patricia Phillips, Stephen Tewksbury, Jeremy T. Villas, and Timothy Ware.

The design team for Kinky Boots includes Tony Award nominee David Rockwell (Scenic Design), Tony Award-winnerGregg Barnes (Costume Design), Tony Award-winner Kenneth Posner (Lighting Design), Tony Award-winner John Shivers (Sound Design), Josh Marquette (Hair Design), Randy Houston Mercer (Make-up Design), Telsey + Company, Justin Huff, CSA (Casting), Brian Usifer (Musical Direction), with Musical Supervision, Arrangements and Orchestrations by Tony and Grammy Award-winner Stephen Oremus.