Theater Announcement: KINKY BOOTS (The Hollywood Bowl)

Joining the previously announced Wayne Brady  in the role of Lola,  Jake Shears  as Charlie, and  Kelly Marie Tran as Lauren, the new cast members include: Mark Ballas  of  Dancing With The Stars  in the role of “Harry”;  Hairspray  Tony ®  Award winner  Marissa Jaret Winokur  in the role of “Pat”;  Hayley Orrantia, joining the production as “Nicola” on the heels of her appearance on  The Masked Singer  and a season 10 renewal of  The Goldbergs; actor/singer/songwriter  Drew Seeley  of  Another Cinderella Story  and  High School Musical  fame as a member of the Male Ensemble; television favorite  Jim J. Bullock reprising the role of “George” from the  Kinky Boots’  first national tour; original  Kinky Boots  Broadway cast member  Daniel Stewart Sherman  reprising his role of “Don”; original  Kinky Boots  Broadway cast member  Jennifer Perry  reprising her role of “Trish”;  Patrick Scott McDermott, fresh from the Lincoln Center production of  Flying Over Sunset, as “Young Charlie”; Walter Russell  lll, who comes to the Hollywood Bowl direct from Broadway’s  MJ  where he is appearing as “Young Michael Jackson,” as “Young Lola”;  James Olivas  as “Richard Bailey”;  Brian Cali  as “Mr. Price”; and  Terron Brooks  as “Simon Sr.”
  
The Hollywood Bowl’s upcoming production of  Kinky Boots  will also feature Ernest T. Williams, Tyler Keller, Matthew Varvar, Eric Stanton Betts, Tommy Martinez, Juan Torres-Falcón, Yurel Echezarreta and Jake Dupree as “The Angels”; Jon Robert Hall and Desmond Newson as the Male Ensemble; and Kim Steele, Ashley Moniz, Joanne Javien, Morgan Anita Wood and Mia Gerachis as the Female Ensemble.
  
Kinky Boots, the winner of six 2013  Tony ® Awards including Best Musical,  is  the exhilarating Broadway hit that lifts spirits to new high-heeled heights  with its Tony-winning music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper,  uplifting book by four-time Tony winner Harvey Fierstein,  and direction and Tony-winning choreography by original director-choreographer Jerry Mitchell. The conductor and musical director is two-time Tony and Grammy ®  winner  Stephen Oremus, the original music supervisor, arranger and orchestrator of  Kinky Boots,  for which he won the Tony for Best Orchestrations.  Kinky Boots  also  won the Grammy for Best Musical  Theater  Album.
  
Kinky Boots,  inspired by a true story, will be the 21st annual LA Phil/Hollywood Bowl-produced, fully staged Broadway musical to be presented at the historic venue.  It  tells the story of an unlikely friendship built around some very unlikely shoes. Factory owner Charlie is struggling to save his business, and the fabulous Lola has a wildly exciting idea that just might do the trick.  Kinky Boots  is the huge-hearted story of two people with nothing in common’”or so they think.

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Hollywood Bowl Musicals
The recent history of Broadway musicals at the Hollywood Bowl is nothing short of spectacular, including  Into the Woods  starring Skylar Astin, Sierra Boggess, Chris Carmack, Sutton Foster, Cheyenne Jackson, Gaten Matarazzo, Patina Miller and Shanice Williams, directed and choreographed by Robert Longbottom;  Annie  starring Ana Gasteyer, David Alan Grier, Megan Hilty, Roger Bart and Lea Salonga, directed by Michael Arden;  Mamma Mia!  starring  Jennifer Nettles, Jamie Camil, Dove Cameron, Corbin Bleu, Lea DeLaria, Hamish Linklater, Steven Weber and Tisha Campbell-Martin, directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall;  A Chorus Line  starring Mario Lopez, Krysta Rodriguez, Robbie Fairchild, Spencer Liff and Ross Lynch, directed and choreographed by Baayork Lee;  Spamalot  starring Craig Robinson, Christian Slater, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Warwick Davis and Eric Idle;  Hair  starring Kristen Bell, Hunter Parrish, Beverly D’Angelo, Benjamin Walker and Amber Riley, directed and choreographed by Adam Shankman;  Chicago  starring Ashlee Simpson, Drew Carey, Lucy Lawless and Stephen Moyer, directed by Brooke Shields;  The Producers  starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Rebecca Romijn, Richard Kind and Dane Cook, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman;  Hairspray  starring Harvey Fierstein, Drew Carey, John Stamos, Corbin Bleu and Nick Jonas, directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell; and  Rent  starring Vanessa Hudgens, Aaron Tveit, Skylar Astin, Nicole Scherzinger and Wayne Brady, directed by Neil Patrick Harris.