{"id":82513,"date":"2019-01-23T20:19:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T02:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=82513"},"modified":"2019-01-23T20:19:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T02:19:17","slug":"the-tony-award-winning-best-musical-kinky-boots-will-play-bologna-performing-arts-center-on-tuesday-feb-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2019\/01\/the-tony-award-winning-best-musical-kinky-boots-will-play-bologna-performing-arts-center-on-tuesday-feb-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tony Award-Winning Best Musical KINKY BOOTS Will Play Bologna Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, Feb. 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TROIKA Entertainment is thrilled to present KINKY BOOTS, the smash-hit musical that brings together four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein (book) and Grammy Award-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper (Tony Award-winner for best score for KINKY BOOTS), at the Bologna Performing Arts Center.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>KINKY BOOTS will play Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. at the Bologna Performing Arts Center (BPAC) at Delta State University. Tickets start at $40 and are on sale at the BPAC Ticket Office, by phone 662-846-4626, or online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bolognapac.com\">www.bolognapac.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of six 2013 Tony Awards, including best musical, KINKY BOOTS features a Tony-winning score by Cyndi Lauper, a book by Tony-winner Harvey Fierstein, and direction and choreography by Tony-winner Jerry Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>KINKY BOOTS tells the uplifting and heartwarming tale of Charlie Price, a young man reluctantly taking over his family\u2019s struggling shoe factory and looking for a fresh idea. Charlie meets and finds inspiration in Lola, and together they discover that it takes a good friend to make a great pair.<\/p>\n<p>KINKY BOOTS has won every major best musical award and is represented around the world with the Tony-winning Broadway company now in its fifth year, an Olivier Award-winning production in London, an Australian production that opened in October 2016, and an upcoming production in Germany. Other previous productions include a past U.S. national tour that played more than 80 cities, an award-winning extended run in Toronto, two productions in Korea, and a Japanese language production. The Grammy Award-winning original Broadway cast recording of KINKY BOOTS is available on Sony Masterworks Broadway.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by true events, KINKY BOOTS takes you from a gentlemen\u2019s shoe factory in Northampton to the glamorous catwalks of Milan. Charlie Price is struggling to live up to his father\u2019s expectations and continue the family business of Price &amp; Son. With the factory\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>The national tour of KINKY BOOTS is produced by TROIKA Entertainment. The creative team includes Tony nominee David Rockwell (scenic design), Tony-winner Gregg Barnes (costume design), Tony-winner Kenneth Posner (lighting design), Tony-winner John Shivers (sound design), Josh Marquette (hair design), Brian Strumwasser (make-up design), Joy Dewing Casting and Wojcik\/Seay Casting (casting), DB Bonds (associate director), and Rusty Mowery (associate choreographer). KINKY BOOTS features musical supervision by Roberto Sinha and arrangements and orchestrations by Tony- and Grammy-winner Stephen Oremus.<\/p>\n<p>For full performance schedule and details, visit KinkyBootsTheTour.com.<\/p>\n<p>The Broadway production of KINKY BOOTS is produced by Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig, James L. Nederlander, Terry Allen Kramer, Independent Presenters Network, CJ E&amp;M, Jayne Baron Sherman, Just for Laughs Theatricals\/Judith Ann Abrams, Yasuhiro Kawana, Jane Bergere, Allan S. Gordon &amp; Adam S. Gordon, Ken Davenport, Hunter Arnold, Lucy and Phil Suarez, Bryan Bantry, Ron Fierstein and Dorsey Regal, Jim Kierstead\/Gregory Rae, BB Group\/Christina Papagjika, Michael DeSantis\/Patrick Baugh, Brian Smith\/Tom and Connie Walsh, Warren Trepp and Jujamcyn Theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROIKA Entertainment is thrilled to present KINKY BOOTS, the smash-hit musical that brings together four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein (book) and Grammy Award-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper (Tony Award-winner for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":82514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bologna-performing-arts-center"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82517,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82513\/revisions\/82517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}