China Daily

Musical: Kinky Boots in Shanghai

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Date: July 11-22 — 7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Culture Square The winner of six 2013 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Kinky Boots features a Tony Award-winning score by Cyndi Lauper, a book by Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, and direction and choreograp­hy by Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell. Inspired by true events, it 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. This joyous musical celebratio­n is about the friendship­s we discover, and the belief that you can change the world when you change your mind. It has won every major Best Musical Award and is represente­d around the world with the Tony Award-winning Broadway company now in its fifth year.

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