Producers ROYO and Curve are delighted to announce WhatsOnStage Award-winner, Courtney Bowman, will star as Lauren within the brand-new Made at Curve manufacturing of the Olivier, Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical KINKY BOOTS The Musical, which arrives at The King’s Theatre, Glasgow from 11-15 February 2025.
Courtney joins the beforehand introduced Johannes Radebe (STRICTLY COME DANCING) as Lola and Dan Partridge (GREASE) as Charlie Price.
KINKY BOOTS The Musical contains a rating by Cyndi Lauper and a e book by Harvey Fierstein. It shall be directed by Curve’s Artistic Director Nikolai Foster (THE WIZARD OF OZ, A CHORUS LINE, BILLY ELLIOT).
Courtney Bowman received the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Performer in a Musical in 2023 for her portrayal of Elle Woods in Legally Blonde at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. Her different theatre credit embrace: Closer to Heaven (Turbine Theatre), Cool Rider: 10th Anniversary Concert (London Palladium), Pretty Woman (Savoy Theatre), SIX (Arts Theatre/Lyric Theatre) and he or she was a part of the unique forged of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Apollo Theatre/Sheffield Crucible). Courtney’s TV credit embrace Eastenders (BBC) and the lead position of Little Cook Small for two collection in Big Cook Little Cook (CBeebies).
Full casting for KINKY BOOTS shall be introduced in the end.
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 facility 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 would possibly simply maintain the reply to saving the struggling enterprise.
