“Kinky Boots,” the endearing, Tony Award-winning musical, gets a charming production at City Lights Theater in San Jose.
Ever since its Broadway premiere in 2013, “Kinky Boots” has lived out loud with gargantuan, affirming energy. It’s a production that backs up its talk about inclusivity, taking even more steps toward this goal in recent years with shifts in dialogue that rightfully pushes away from a harmful gender binary.
Harvey Fierstein’s humorous and tender book, with a wide range of musical styles from Cyndi Lauper does plenty to wrangle the many emotional storylines. Adapted from the 2005 film of the same title, it’s based on a true story of an unlikely bond over footwear in Northampton, England. “Price and Son has spent the last century making a range of shoes for men. We will begin this century by making a range of shoes for a range of men,” Charlie expresses to his flabbergasted staff. But hey, if there are lots of drag performers willing to pay top dollar for spitfire red boots, referred to as “2½ feet of irresistible, tubular, sex,” let’s get crackin’.
Both hit every emotional note in “Not My Father’s Son,” a song with two stories with similar experiences of patriarchal disappointment. Locke’s scintillating lead voice on “Everybody Say Yeah,” coupled with Lysander Abadia’s joyous conveyor belt choreography, readies the show for massive entry into intermission.
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