KINKY BOOTS heads to Dublin as part of its UK&I Tour

Kinky Boots, has announced it will add the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in Dublin to its touring schedule 19 August – 31 August 2019.

The tour opened at Royal & Derngate in Northampton on 19 September 2018, returning to the home of this heart- warming British story and is currently at Manchester Opera House until 1 December, followed by Edinburgh Playhouse from 10 December – 5 January 2019.

In Dublin, 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.

Also joining the Kinky Boots cast includes: 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.

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.

Upcoming dates include:
Manchester Opera House (12 November – 1 December 2018)
Edinburgh Playhouse (10 December 2018 – 5 January 2019)
Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury (14– 26 January 2019)
Regent Theatre, Stoke-on Trent (28 January – 9 February 2019)
Venue Cymru, Llandudno (11 – 16 February 2019)
New Theatre Oxford (18 – 23 February 2019)
Bristol Hippodrome (25 February – 9 March 2019)
Birmingham Hippodrome (11 – 23 March 2019)
Liverpool Empire (25 March – 6 April 2019)
Leeds Grand Theatre (8 April – 20 April 209)
His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen (23 April – 4 May 2019)
Kings Theatre Glasgow (6 – 18 May 2019)
Theatre Royal Nottingham (27 May – 8 June 2019)
Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield (10 – 22 June 2019)
Sunderland Empire (24 June – 6 July 2019)
Theatre Royal, Plymouth (8 July – 20 July 2019)
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff (22 July – 3 August 2019)
Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin (19 August – 31 August)
Mayflower Theatre, Southampton (3-14 September 2019)
Opera House, Blackpool (30 September – 12 October 2019)
Alhambra Theatre, Bradford (14-26 October 2019)
Milton Keynes Theatre (28 October-9 November 2019)
Hull New Theatre (11-23 November 2019)

Photo: Helen Maybanks

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