Last
week Cam and I went to see Kinky Boots at the Pantages Theater. It is
an amazing show about a kid named Charlie Price played by Steven
Booth. After his father, the owner of the family business Price and
Son, passes away after Charlie moves to London with his fiancee he
reluctantly takes over the business. Mixed into this tale is the
story of a young boy playing in high heels before his father screams
at him to stop.
As
Charlie tries to figure out how to keep the business afloat and pay
the employees he attempts to stop a fight between two men and a
“lady.” Charlie is knocked out and the lady is a drag queen named
Lola played by Kyle Taylor Parker. Okay. This man can sing his ass
off. Everyone involved was good but I'll be damned if I didn't clap
like crazy after every song featuring Lola that much harder. Lola
tells Charlie that she broke her heel on his head and Charlie
mentions that he owns a shoe company.
I should also point out Lindsay
Nicole Chambers because she had me cracking up laughing with her
performance.
I did
not know anything about this play going in. I knew there were guys in
drag, something about shoes, and thought it was based in New York so
the English accents caught me off guard. After some shows donations
are asked for and after this one I had to do it. I donated and bought
me and Cam a shirt.
If you get a chance to see it here in Hollywood
or while it is on tour you really should. Live shows are entertaining
in a way that movies can not be and I don't go to them often enough.
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