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Photo Flash: Tony Winner Billy Porter Heads Home to Pittsburgh in KINKY BOOTS National Tour

By: Aug. 05, 2015
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KINKY BOOTS, the smash-hit musical that brings together four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein (Book) and Grammy Award-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper (Tony Award-winner for Best Score for Kinky Boots), plays the Benedum Center, now through August 9.

Pittsburgh's own Billy Porter, who is stepping out of his Tony Award-winning role on Broadway - for one week only - to play Lola before his hometown audience. Billy returns to Pittsburgh CLO after getting his start as a CLO Mini Star, before graduating from CAPA, Carnegie Mellon University and appearing in Pittsburgh CLO productions, most recently Dreamgirls in 2004.

BroadwayWorld brings you a look at the show's first performance in Pittsburgh below!

Directed and choreographed by Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell, KINKY BOOTS is represented around the world with the Broadway company now in its third year, a North American First National Tour that launched in September 2014, a Toronto production that opened in June 2015, a London production opening in September 2015 and a Melbourne production opening in October 2016. A Korean production of KINKY BOOTS ran from December 2014-February 2015. The Grammy Award-winning Original Broadway Cast Recording of KINKY BOOTS is available on Sony Masterworks Broadway.

KINKY BOOTS took home six 2013 Tony Awards, the most of any show in the season, including Best Musical, Best Score (Cyndi Lauper), Best Choreography (Jerry Mitchell), Best Orchestrations (Stephen Oremus) and Best Sound Design (John Shivers). The show also received the Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and Broadway.com Awards for Best Musical and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Album, along with many other accolades.

Inspired by true events, KINKY BOOTS takes you from a gentlemen's shoe factory in Northampton to the glamorous catwalks of Milan. Charlie Price is struggling to live up to his father's expectations and continue the family business of Price & Son. With the factory's future hanging in the balance, help arrives in the unlikely but spectacular form of Lola, a fabulous performer in need of some sturdy new stilettos.

Billy Porter plays the role of Lola. Broadway: Kinky Boots (2013 Tony Award, Drama Desk & Outer Critics Circle Award Winner), Miss Saigon, Five Guys..., Grease, Smokey Joe's..., Dreamgirls. Off-Broadway/Regional: Angels in America, Merchant of Venice, Radiant Baby, Birdie Blue, Songs for a New World. Ghetto Superstar (One-Man Show), Topdog/Underdog, King Lear, The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler. Film/TV: "The Broken Hearts Club," "Shake Rattle & Roll," "Noel," "Law & Order," "The Big C." Recording: "Untitled," "At the Corner of Broadway & Soul."

Photos by Matt Polk

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Billy Porter and Cast of Kinky Boots

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Billy Porter and Steven Booth

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Billy Porter and Cast of Kinky Boots

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Billy Porter and Cast of Kinky Boots

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Hal Luftig and Billy Porter

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Billy Porter, Van Kaplan

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Billy Porter, Van Kaplan, Ewan McGregor

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Billy Porter and Cast of Kinky Boots




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