This being a musical, the audience can be guaranteed Charlie and Lauren are meant for each other, despite her rousing song “The History of Wrong Guys.” Charlie finds an instant ally in long-time factory worker Lauren (a terrifically appealing Shannon Mullen). The idea to reboot the factory to make kinky boots with sturdy stilettos for drag performers proves a salvation for the business, after, of course a bit of drama and lot of songs. Stores begin to cancel long-standing orders.īy chance, Charlie meets Lola, who has a broken heel. Price & Sons makes high-quality shoes for men, the kind of shoes that never wear out so there is little reason for customers to buy new pairs each year. But the factory is failing, a situation Charlie’s father kept from him. Then Charlie’s father dies, leaving him the factory and the future of the employees, many of whom Charlie has known since he was a child. This being a musical, we immediately know that Nicola is wrong for Charlie, no matter how strong a singer Vagasy is. He leaves for London with his materialistic girlfriend Nicola (Tory Vagasy).
Based on a true story, Kinky Boots’ plot begins with Charlie Price (a winsome Dominique Scott) who doesn’t want to take over Price & Sons, his father’s third-generation shoe factory in England’s Midlands. Kinky Boots, with book by Harvey Fierstein and music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper, earned six Tony Awards in 2012. Word has been showing his talents as part of ensembles in the area, culminating with much deserved Carbonell Award for Best Supporting Actor in the musical, Dreamgirls, at the Broward Stage Door Theater in 2018 for his performance as James Thunder Early.Īs the fearless Lola, Word gives a searing performance that is pure joy, handling with bravado his outlandish numbers in drag, bringing sex appeal and a bit of danger in numbers such as “Sex Is in the Heel” and “The Land of Lola.” Then showing his singing chops include being a belter in the heartfelt “Hold Me in Your Heart.” Word is clearly having the time of his life in this role and his infectious fun resonates with the audience. Slow Burn’s Kinky Boots pulls it all together, from the high-step dancing-and we do mean high with those boots-to the enthusiastic singing to the solid acting, all under the helm of director/choreographer Patrick Fitzwater.Īll this rests heavily and happily on the very agile-and very long-legs of charismatic Elijah Word, bringing a triple threat star turn to the role of drag queen Lola, whose quite kinky boots become the fulcrum for saving a failing factory. Broward Center For The Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale. Instead, let’s start with the sheer entertainment gifted by Slow Burn’s grand production of Kinky Boots, being staged through Jan. More information about how we score this metric can be found here.Elijah Word leads the ladies in Kink Boots from Slow Burn Theatre / Photos by Gregory Reedįor the moment, let’s put aside the messages of acceptance, being comfortable in your own skin, family bonds and making your own path-all of which Slow Burn Theatre Company deftly explores in its high-energy version of the musical Kinky Boots. Resources to help nonprofits improve their DEI practices can be found here. Charity Navigator has developed a plan to iterate and expand upon our preliminary DEI ratings and will be rolling it out gradually in order to provide charities ample time to incorporate, report, and potentially improve their equity practices.
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