Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Watch Billy Porter, Stark Sands & the Cast of Kinky Boots Kick Up Their Heels on Today by Josh Ferri

The Today Show got a heaping helping of glitter, glam and heart on the morning of June 18 as the Tony-winning musical Kinky Boots strutted into Rockefeller Center. In the video below, the la…

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Review: Wagner Dream (Birmingham)

Birmingham Hippodrome 2013 is yielding a veritable embarrassment of riches for Wagner-lovers, but WNO's staging of the late Jonathan Harvey's meditative Wagner Dream has to be one of the mo…

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Monday, June 17, 2013

CONTEST: Win Tickets to Off-Broadway's UNBROKEN CIRCLE! by JK

 He's a writer, interviewer, musician and Broadway personality extraordinaire.  And with the Off-Broadway play, Unbroken Circle, he adds "producer" to his resume.  I'm talking…

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Saturday, June 15, 2013

STAGE TUBE: On This Day 6/15- Neil Patrick Harris by Stage Tube

Happy Birthday, Neil Patrick Harris A veteran of the theater, Harris recently tackled the role of Bobby in the New York Philharmonic's production of Stephen Sondheim's 'Company' at Lincoln …

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Friday, June 14, 2013

Stephen Porter (1925-2013) by Stephen Bowie, Library For The Performing Arts

A death notice for the theater director Stephen Porter appears in today's New York Times. Porter, who died on June 11 at the age of 87, won two Drama Desk Awards (for They Knew What They Wa…

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Billy Porter Sings "Sex Is in the Heel" at Kinky Boots Cast Recording Session

The cast of Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein's Tony Award winning musical Kinky Boots hit the studio to lay down tracks for the show's original cast recording. Here is a look at Ton…

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KINKY BOOTS wins the 2013 Tony Award for BEST MUSICAL! by Kinky Boots

KINKY BOOTS wins the 2013 Tony Award for BEST MUSICAL! Don't miss KINKY BOOTS, winner of six 2013 Tony Awards® including BEST MUSICAL! Find out more at http://kinkybootsthemusical.c…

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What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips by Lyn Gardner

Tim Firth's This Is My Family starts in Sheffield, Natalie McGrath's Oxygen celebrates the centenary of the 1913 suffrage pilgrimage from Land's End, and Punchdrunk's The Drowned Man opens i…

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Thursday, June 13, 2013

Official: KINKY BOOTS to Kick Off National Tour in 2014 from Las Vegas! by BroadwayWorld

Producers Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig are proud to announce that Kinky Boots, the six-time Tony Award-winning musical that brings together four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein Book and…

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"Schools Out" HMI Benefit by Barry

           By: Isa GoldbergThomas Krever (HMI Executive DIrector), Michael LongacreThe annual benefit for Hetrick Martin Institute at the home of Peter Wilson and Scott Sanders in …

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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Theater News: Tony Award Winner Kinky Boots to Launch 2014 National Tour in Las Vegas by Hayley Levitt

Watch out, Vegas: Your most fabulous drag queens will soon have some stiff competition. Broadway's new Cyndi Lauper-Harvey Fierstein musical Kinky Boots, recent recipient of six Tony Awards …

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Vanya and Kinky Boots Take Top Tony Awards by Lauren Yarger

The 2013 Tony Award winners (in red). For reviews, click the link under "2012-2013 Reviews" at right. David Hyde Pierce, Sigourney Weaver, Kristine Nielsen, and Billy Magnussen. Photo…

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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Tony Winner Kinky Boots Will Raise Audiences Up Around the Country; National Tour Launches in Vegas by Josh Ferri

The Tony-winning Best Musical Kinky Boots will strut its way into a town near you as the crowd-pleasing Cyndi Lauper/Harvey Fierstein tuner launches a national tour. The production kicks off…

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Cyndi Lauper Intends to Write Another Musical; 'Would Love to Work with Harvey Again' by BroadwayWorld

In an interview with USA Today, KINKY BOOTS composer and lyricist Cyndi Lauper revealed that she intends to write another musical eventually. The recent Tony Award winner shared that she 'wo…

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Monday, June 10, 2013

KINKY BOOTS & CYNDI LAUPER Are TONY’s Best. Complete List Of Winners by Michael J. Roberts

  Kinky Boots, the Cyndi Lauper-Harvey Fierstein musical adaptation of the film of the same name, and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, the comedy by Christopher Durang, were re…

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Audra McDonald, Alan Cumming and More Honored with 2013 MADE IN NY Awards; KINKY BOOTS Performs by BroadwayWorld

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Mayor's Office of Media amp Entertainment Commissioner Katherine Oliver today presented the eighth annual 'Made in NY' Awards, honoring individuals and organiz…

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KINKY BOOTS: "The Sex is in the Heel" Recording Session by Kinky Boots

KINKY BOOTS: "The Sex is in the Heel" Recording Session KINKY BOOTS is the winner of six 2013 Tony Awards, including BEST MUSICAL! The cast records "The Sex is in the Heel&qu…

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EXCLUSIVE: Kinky Boots’ Stark Sands Shows the “Soul of a Man” at Cast Recording Session

The cast of Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein’s Kinky Boots hit the studio to lay down tracks for the original cast recording of the Tony-winning show. Here, Stark Sands leads the crew thr…

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Tony award winners 2013 – the full list

The Lauper-Fierstein collaboration Kinky Boots scooped six awards including best musical, but what about those other prizes? Here's the full 2013 Tony winners' listBest playWinner: Vanya and…

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Tony awards: Matilda left wanting as Kinky Boots dances to victory by David Cote

Tony voters stuck to the American side of Broadway – even if Kinky Boots came with an English pedigreeThe overarching narrative of your average Tony awards ceremony goes one of two ways: t…

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Kinky Boots Winners Toast Their Tony Triumphs by Josh Ferri

The big winner at the 2013 Tony Awards was the Cyndi Lauper/Harvey Fierstein musical Kinky Boots. A stage adaptation of the British indie film, this heartwarming tale of a Northampton factor…

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KINKY BOOTS Wins Tony Award for Best Musical by BroadwayWorld

Kinky Boots has one the 2013 Tony Award for Best Musical. From four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein book, Grammy Award-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper Music amp Lyrics, Tony Award-win…

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Sunday, June 9, 2013

2013 Tony Awards - my predictions by Mondschein

Just under the wire, here are my predictions: Best Play * Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Best Musical * Matilda The Musical Best Revival …

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2013 Tony Awards: Red Carpet - Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper by The Tony Awards

2013 Tony Awards: Red Carpet - Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper arrive on the Audemars Piguet Red Carpet at the 2013 Tony Awards. Video courtesy of NY1. …

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TONY AWARDS 2013 PROPOSED NEW RULE FOR 2013-2014: Resume shots in Playbill are to be no more than ten years or ten pounds ago. That goes double

MY TONY THOUGHTS 2013BEST PLAYNominees: The Assembled Parties, Lucky Guy, The Testament of Mary, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and SpikeMy personal ‘druthers: The Assembled Parties (Am I the …

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Dudes look like a lady by By barbara Hoffman

Not since Harvey Fierstein’s Tony-winning turn in “Hairspray” have Broadway’s leading men gotten so much mileage from a dress. This time around, it’s Bertie Carvel and Billy Porter…

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KINKY BOOTS' Harvey Fierstein Appears on CBS SUNDAY MORNING Today by BroadwayWorld

Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein's work to help those with AIDS and preventing the spread of the virus came after he hit rock bottom, he tells Richard Schlesinger in …

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Saturday, June 8, 2013

Tony Award Predictions 2013 - PC by Barry

                 By: Patrick ChristianoCyndi Lauper, Harvey Fierstein "Kinky Boots"The annual Tony Award show is shaping up to be suspenseful evening with a majority of the c…

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2013 Tony awards: Broadway kicks off its Kinky Boots and celebrates the show by Emma G Keller

Neil Patrick Harris is back to host again (yay!), and Tom Hanks is a sentimental favourite to win, so sit back and grab the popcornIf you're a theatre lover, Sunday night's big match will no…

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The 2013 Tony Awards: Jeff and Mike's Predictions by JK

At last!  The most exciting night of the year for Broadway fans is just one day away!  And just as we have for the past few seasons, my friend Mike and I are weighing in who we thi…

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BWW TV Exclusive: Meet the 2013 Tony Nominees- KINKY BOOT'S Cyndi Lauper on Owing It All to Harvey Fierstein by BroadwayWorld TV

BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was thrilled to sit down and speak with nearly all of this year's Tony Award nominees at the official Tonys Meet amp Greet on May 1, 2013, and we will be bringi…

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