CASTING ANNOUNCED!
Kinky
Boots
Sunderland
Empire
Monday
24th June – Saturday 6th July 2019
Kinky Boots, the winner of every major Best Musical
award, is pleased to announce casting for the upcoming UK tour. Kayi Ushe will play the role of Lola, Paula Lane, known for her role as Kylie
Platt in Coronation Street, will play
Lauren and Joel Harper-Jackson will
play Charlie, with a date at Sunderland Empire in 2019.
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Joel Harper-Jackson (Charlie), Paula Lane (Lauren) and
Kayi Ushe (Lola) - Photo: Helen Maybanks
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Also joining the Kinky Boots
cast will be Demitri
Lampra (Don), Adam Price (George) Helen Ternent (Nicola) who will be
accompanied by Charlie Allen, Nicola Avino, Lizzie Bea, Joshua St Clair, Connor Collins, Daniel Conway, Shaun Dalton, John Dempsey, Niki Evans, Mary Fox, Scarlet Gabriel, Damon Gould, George Grayson, Portia Harry, Joshua Lovell, Jacob McIntosh, Chileshe Mondelle, Alfie Parker, Fred Smiley, Toyan Thomas-Browne, Andy Watkins and Jason Winter.
The tour will
open at Royal & Derngate in
Northampton on 19 September 2018,
returning to the home of this heart-warming British story, whilst the West End
production continues at the Adelphi
Theatre until 12 January 2019.
Kinky Boots at the Adelphi Theatre has become a
favourite with UK theatregoers having won three Olivier Awards for Best New
Musical, Best Costume Design and
Best Actor in a Musical for Matt Henry who played Lola. Kinky Boots also won the London Evening Standard BBC Radio 2 Audience Award for Best Musical
as well as three WhatsOnStage Awards
for Best New Musical, Best Actor in a Musical and Best Choreography.
With a book by
Broadway legend and four-time
Tony® Award-winner Harvey Fierstein (La Cage aux Folles), and songs by Grammy® and Tony® winning pop
icon Cyndi Lauper, this joyous musical celebration is about the friendships we
discover, and the belief that
you can change the world when you change your mind.
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.
With direction
and choreography by two-time Tony®
Award-winner
Jerry Mitchell (Legally Blonde, Hairspray), Kinky Boots is the winner of every
major Best Musical award including three
Olivier Awards, three WhatsOnStage
Awards as
well as six Broadway Tony® Awards.
Kayi Ushe (Lola/Simon) has several theatre credits including The Crucible, A Little Night Music
(Storyhouse, Chester); Motown the Musical
(Shaftesbury Theatre); Wonderland (UK
Tour); The Book of Mormon (Prince of
Wales Theatre); Avenue Q (UK Tour); Kisses on a Postcard (North Devon
Theatres); Fame the Musical (Italian
tour) and Crazy for You (London
Palladium).
Joel Harper-Jackson (Charlie Price) has numerous theatre
credits including Pieces of String
(Mercury Theatre); Myth: The Rise and
Fall of Orpheus (The Other Palace); The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (UK Tour), Jesus Christ Superstar (Regents Park
Open Air Theatre); Beautiful - The Carole
King Musical (The Aldwych Theatre); Little
Women (Hope Mill Theatre); Picture
Perfect (St James); Pacific Overtures
(Union Theatre); Rent (UK Tour) and West End Women (UK Tour). His film
credits include The Curse and Abu Ghraib.
Paula Lane (Lauren) has appeared on stage in Be More Martyn (Southwark Playhouse) and
The Bengal Lily (Manchester Royal
Exchange). Her television and film credits include Coronation Street; Doctors;
Heartbeat; The Royal; Going Postal and
War Wounds.
Demitri Lampra (Don) has appeared on stage in both The Jungle Book (Image Musical Theatre)
and The Wind in the Willows (UK tour).
Helen Ternent (Nicola) has several theatre credits including Jersey Boys (Piccadilly Theatre); The Pajama Game (Shaftesbury
Theatre); Stephen Ward (Aldwych
Theatre); Viva Forever (Piccadilly
Theatre); Hairspray! (UK Tour); High School Musical 2 (UK Tour Fame (UK Tour); We Will Rock You (Vienna/Zurich); The Three
Musketeers (Berlin); Mamma Mia! (Cyprus).
Adam Price (George) has multiple theatre credits
including Privates On Parade (MGC,
Noel Coward Theatre); Hairspray
(Shaftesbury Theatre); Hairspray (UK
Tour); Blood Brothers, Oliver Twist, Ghosts of Scrooge (Library Theatre); Babes in Arms, The Winter’s
Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s
Park Open Air Theatre); The Boys From
Syracuse (Crucible, Sheffield); Guys
& Dolls, Fat Pig - The Musical
(Leicester Haymarket); The Red Balloon
(Bristol Old Vic); Notre Dame
(Oxford); The Merry Widow, Ghosts Of Ruddigore (Opera Della Luna); Make Some Noise, One Step Beyond (Stratford East); A Hole In The Fence (White Bear Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Hampstead Theatre) and The Dark Side (UK Tour). His television and film credits include Family Affairs; Eastenders; May To December;
Coppers; The Cuckoo Sister; Grange Hill; Just Good Friends; Executive Stress
and Young Soul Rebels.
Kinky Boots is produced by Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig
and Playful Productions, in association with Cameron Mackintosh.
Book: Harvey
Fierstein
Composer &
Lyricist: Cyndi
Lauper
Director &
Choreographer: Jerry Mitchell
Musical
Supervision,
Arranger &
Orchestrator: Stephen Oremus
Scenic
Design: David Rockwell
Costume Design: Gregg Barnes
Lighting
Design: Kenneth Posner
Sound
Design: John Shivers
Hair Design: Josh Marquette
Tickets:
Tickets
available in person at the Box Office on High Street West, Sunderland from the
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