Tickets to Go on Sale Tomorrow for KINKY BOOTS in Melbourne

Prepare to get Kinky! Tickets for the Australian season of feel-good, multi award-winning musical KINKY BOOTS go on sale tomorrow, Thursday 18 February 2016. Performances begin on 12 October 2016 at Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne.

KINKY BOOTS features a book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, music and lyrics by pop icon Cyndi Lauper, and direction and choreography by two-time Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell.

KINKY BOOTS officially opened on Broadway in April 2013, scooping six Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Original Score Written for the Theatre - the first time a solo female composer has ever won the award. The production also took home the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album.

The blockbuster Broadway hit opened in London's West End in September 2015, winning the Radio 2 Audience Award for Best Musical at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Further productions are also currently playing in Toronto and on tour in the US.

Inspired by a true story and based on the Miramax film by Geoff Deane and Tim Firth starring Joel Edgerton, KINKY BOOTS tells the story of Charlie Price who has reluctantly inherited his father's Northampton shoe factory. Trying to live up to his father's legacy and save the family business from bankruptcy, Charlie finds inspiration in the form of Lola, 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 that when you change your mind, you can change the world.

Minister for Tourism and Major Events, John Erin said today: "KINKY BOOTS isn't just a showstopper, it's a powerful story too. It's one of equality, fairness and inspiration. It's no surprise that a Broadway show of this size is coming to Melbourne. We're a leader for the big cultural events, and we do them so well."

Tickets are available from www.kinkybootsthemusical.com.au.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

HARVEY FIERSTEIN (BOOKWRITER)

Harvey Fierstein is the author of the revised book for the new smash hit production of Funny Girl currently running in London, and wrote the teleplay for December's NBC live broadcast in America of The Wiz. A new production of that musical will be heading to Broadway with his new book. He has also penned the recent Broadway hits Newsies (Tony nomination) and Casa Valentina (Tony nomination, Best Play), as well as Torch Song Trilogy (Tony, Drama Desk and Obie Awards), La Cage aux Folles (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), A Catered Affair (12 Drama Desk nominations), Safe Sex (Ace Award), Legs Diamond, Spookhouse, Flatbush Tosca, Common Ground, and more. His political editorials have been published in The New York Times, TV Guide and The Huffington Post and broadcast on PBS's "In the Life," while his children's book, The Sissy Duckling (Humanitas Award), is now in its fifth printing. As an actor, Mr. Fierstein is known worldwide for his performances in films including Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day and Bullets Over Broadway; on stage in Hairspray (Tony Award), Fiddler on the Roof, La Cage aux Folles and Torch Song Trilogy (Tony Award); and on TV shows such as "Smash," "How I Met Your Mother," "The Good Wife," "Cheers" (Emmy nomination), "The Simpsons," "Family Guy" and "Nurse Jackie."

CYNDI LAUPER (COMPOSER & LYRICIST)

Cyndi Lauper is a Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award-winning (for her KINKY BOOTS score)artist who, after 30 sterling years and global record sales in excess of 50 million albums, has proven that she has the heart and soul to keep her legion of fans compelled by her every creative move. With her first album, She's So Unusual, Lauper won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist and became the first female in history to have four top-five singles from a debut album. Since then, Lauper has released ten additional studio albums and was recently inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Her upcoming 11th studio album, Detour, recorded late last year in Nashville, will showcase her signature takes on classic country songs from the 1950's and 60's. The album will also feature appearances by some of country music's most-celebrated artists. Overall, during her storied music career, Lauper has been nominated for 15 Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, seven American Video Awards and 18 MTV Awards. She recently captured her journey through music and life in her New York Times best-selling autobiography, Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir. As an actress, Lauper made her Broadway debut in The Threepenny Opera alongside Alan Cumming in 2006. She has appeared in numerous television shows, including "Mad About You" (Emmy Award) and "Bones" and films including The Opportunist with Christopher Walken, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Life With Mikey, Off and Running and Vibes. Lauper also continues her philanthropic work through her foundation, the True Colors Fund.

JERRY MITCHELL (Director & Choreographer)

Jerry received the Tony Award for Best Choreography twice-initially for the revival of La Cage Aux Folles and more recently, for the 2013 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, KINKY BOOTS, for which he was also nominated as Director. Jerry is also currently represented on Broadway as Director of the Gloria Estefan musical, On Your Feet and was recently nominated for an Olivier Award for his choreography in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which he also directed and co-produced in the West End. He's the director/co-choreographer of the new musical comedy Gotta Dance, which comes to Broadway in fall 2016 after a successful world premiere in Chicago. In the 35 preceding years, Jerry has been involved with over 50 Broadway, West End and touring productions, including his having choreographed You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown; The Full Monty (Tony nomination); The Rocky Horror Show; Hairspray (Tony nomination); Gypsy; Never Gonna Dance (Tony nomination); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony nomination); La Cage Aux Folles (Tony Award); Imaginary Friends; Legally Blonde (Tony nomination), which he also directed; Catch Me If You Can; and KINKY BOOTS (also running in London, Toronto, Korea and on national tour, with Australia and Japan up next.) Jerry is especially proud to have received three Helpmann Awards for Best Direction, Best Choreography and Best Musical for Legally Blonde starring Lucy Durack. Twenty-five years ago, Jerry conceived and created Broadway Bares, a comedy burlesque show performed annually for the charity Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, for which he continues to serve as Executive Producer.

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