Producers ROYO and Curve have introduced a brand-new Made at Curve manufacturing of the Olivier, Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical KINKY BOOTS The Musical, which can tour the UK and Ireland from 17 January 2025 and visits Glasgow 11-15 February 2025.
KINKY BOOTS The Musical encompasses a rating by Cyndi Lauper and a e book by Harvey Fierstein. It will probably be directed by Curve’s Artistic Director Nikolai Foster (THE WIZARD OF OZ, A CHORUS LINE, BILLY ELLIOT) and can star TV dance sensation and worldwide champion Johannes Radebe as Lola and rising star Dan Partridge as Charlie Price.
KINKY BOOTS The Musical was a Broadway and West End phenomenon primarily based on a real story and film of the identical identify launched in 2005. After inheriting his household’s failing shoe manufacturing unit and with a relationship on the rocks, life is proving to be very difficult for Charlie Price. That is till he meets Lola, a drag queen whose sparkle and unsteady heels may simply maintain the reply to saving the struggling enterprise.
Guaranteed to RAISE YOU UP and have fun everyone’s individuality, don’t miss KINKY BOOTS on tour commencing January 2025!
Cyndi Lauper mentioned “Kinky Boots is one of the things I’m proudest of in my career, and I’m so excited that audiences will get to see it again, in a new production. It’s like a happy pill – and we could all use some of that right now! I can’t think of a better time or place to relaunch this special show in its place of origin.”
Harvey Fierstein added “An all new production is a thrilling event in the life of a well-loved show. And to have that rebirth occur in the place of its origin makes it all a billion times more exciting. I can’t wait to welcome KINKY BOOTS home.”
Curve’s Chief Executive Chris Stafford and Artistic Director Nikolai Foster added:
“We all know Johannes for his extraordinary artistry on the dance flooring, however seeing him inhabit the astonishing world of Lola in Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper’s proud, punchy and passionate KINKY BOOTS has been an electrifying and profoundly shifting expertise.
“Johannes is joined by Curve common, the magnificent Dan Partridge, as Charlie Price and a world class artistic group, led by designer Robert Jones and choreographer Leah Hill.
“We are past thrilled to have the chance to create a brand-new KINKY BOOTS at Curve, alongside our terrific co-producers at ROYO, returning the story to its native Midlands and manufacturing heartland of Leicester, the place our theatre proudly stands at the moment. This is a narrative of British industrial heritage, advised by means of Fierstein’s fiercely clever phrases, and Lauper’s explosive songs, in a very joyful musical about overcoming adversity, celebrating individuality, the ability of an excellent pair of heels and neighborhood spirit.
“We can’t wait to share this explosion of joy with audiences next year.”
Born within the township Zamdela Sasolburg, South Africa, Johannes Radebe began dancing when he was seven. At the age of 21, Johannes left South Africa to work on the internationally famend Italian cruise liner Costa and in 2018, he was invited to affix the debut season of the worldwide hit present, Dancing With The Stars, in South Africa.
Johannes toured the world within the worldwide dance present Burn The Floor earlier than being headhunted by Strictly Come Dancing. He moved to the UK to bounce on the flagship BBC present. In his second sequence, he was partnered with Catherine Tyldesley and danced the primary same-sex routine with fellow Strictly star Graziano Di Prima. In 2020 he danced with actress Caroline Quentin and in 2021, he and his movie star associate, John Waite, made historical past by being the primary all-male partnership to compete on the present. The pair made it to the ultimate and lately received the British LGBT Award for Media Moment of the Year. In 2022, he was partnered with comic and actress Ellie Taylor, and made it to the semi-finals within the sixth sequence with associate Annabel Croft in 2023.
2022 noticed his movie choreography debut with the function Pretty Red Dress (Teng Teng Films, in collaboration with the BFI, BBC Film, and the Sundance Institute) which premiered at London Film Festival. In 2023, he additionally was requested to be a Co-Producer on the Olivier nominated A Strange Loop at The Barbican.
His first e book Jojo: Finally Home was revealed on 7 September 2023 and have become a Sunday Times best-seller. It was lately introduced that South African movie firm Arrested Industries run by Anthony Kimble, and Oscar nominated Helena Spring Films, have optioned Jojo: Finally Home for a movie, with additional particulars to return.
His debut solo UK tour Freedom and observe up present Freedom Unleashed offered out throughout the UK together with per week in London’s West End on the Peacock Theatre. He is at present on tour with this third present: House of Jojo, which incorporates performances on the London Palladium.
Johannes was invited to Buckingham Palace to offer the keynote speech for The Duke of Edinburgh Awards Scheme, to award the Gold Award winners for the primary time for the reason that pandemic. He returned to the Palace after a private invitation from King Charles III and The Queen Consort to The State Banquet for The President of South Africa – a real honour for a boy from Zamdela. In 2024, he lead a dance workshop at Buckingham Palace for volunteers from The Royal Voluntary Service which was attended by Queen Camilla. Johannes introduced her majesty with a pair of faucet footwear.
Dan Partridge has an intensive checklist of theatre credit together with Magaldi in Evita (Curve, Leicester), Danny Zuko in Grease (Dominion Theatre, West End, Curve & National Tour), Rum Tum Tugger in CATS (European Tour & South Korea Tour), Link Larkin in Hairspray (UK Tour) and Pepper in MAMMA MIA! (West End).
His TV and Film credit embrace: Randolph Scott in Archie, the story of Cary Grant’s life for ITV, Jamie Wells in Casualty (BBC) and Jez Gordon in Doctors (BBC).
Dan additionally received Best Actor on the ‘This Is England’ Film Festival in Rouen, France for his work on the brief movie ÉTÉ directed by Gregory Oke.
11 – 15 February 2025* Glasgow Kings Theatre
*Please word: Johannes won’t carry out on the Wed & Thu matinees*
