The show, about a struggling shoe factory, features actors with authentic Northamptonshire accents.
Kinky Boots is about a shoe factory that starts making boots for drag artists, instead of traditional men's shoesThe musical will be performed by a local cast, on a Northampton stage, in the county where the musical is set.The show nearly did not go ahead after autoclaved aerated concrete was discovered in the venue, The Royal and Derngate, in September.
The Northampton Musical Theatre Company started rehearsing in June but last month the Derngate was closed and they had to wait four weeks to see if the show could go on."There was so much uncertainty; we were told to just keep going as it was better at that point to have a show and not be able to put it on then stop rehearsals and then told we could put it on."He said that as no replacement venue could be found the cast and crew had to just hope the theatre could reopen in time.
He is the boss of traditional shoemaker WJ Brookes in Earls Barton near Northampton, which started making women's shoes in men's sizes for transgender people, drag artists and anyone else who wanted them.Luke Wilson with Steve Pateman , the man who inspired the musical, and Dan Hodson , who is playing Charlie Price, a character loosely based on Steve
A Miramax film was based on the story, and then it was adapted into the musical, with tunes by Cyndi Lauper, moving the story a few miles west to Northampton, in a fictional factory called Price & Son."It's very strange because we usually put on other accents, but this is how we all normally talk, but it's been lovely to hear.
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