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Kinky Boots celebrates 500 performances in the West End

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LAST night (Thursday, November 3, 2016), Kinky Boots celebrated its 500th performance in London’s Adelphi Theatre, where it is currently booking until May 6, 2017.

Previously Posted: Kinky Boots, now in its second year in London’s West End, has won the London Lifestyle Award for Theatre Show of the Year.

The awards celebrate the best of the ‘lifestyle industry’, with 20 awards, 15 being voted for by the public, going to talented individuals and enterprises that help make London such an amazing city.

The London Lifestyle Awards were created in 2010 with a mission to honour those whose work has made an outstanding contribution to London and its lifestyle to the ultimate benefit of Londoners and visitors.

A favourite with UK theatregoers, Kinky Boots has won every major Best Musical award. As well as Best Musical, it has also won Oliviers for Best Costume Design and Best Actor in a Musical for Matt Henry who plays Lola.

Other awards include the London Evening Standard BBC Radio 2 Audience Award for Best Musical and three WhatsOnStage Awards – for Best New Musical, Best Actor in a Musical for Matt Henry, and Best Choreography.

Kinky Boots. Photo credit: Helen Maybanks.

Producers Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig said: “We are absolutely delighted that Kinky Boots has received such a special award, recognising how our beloved show reaches out to the heart and soul of enthralled audiences.”

The production also won a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album.

With a book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein (La Cage Aux Folles), and songs by Grammy and Tony Award-winning Cyndi Lauper, Kinky Boots is about the friendships we discover, and the belief that you can change the world when you change your mind.

Kinky Boots is currently booking at the Adelphi Theatre until May 6, 2017.

Read more about Kinky Boots.

Image (top): The cast celebrating the show’s 500th performance. Photo credit: Nik Dudley.

Image (bottom): The cast of Kinky Boots. Photo credit: Helen Maybanks.