Kinky Boots (Broadway cast album) explained

Kinky Boots
Type:cast recording
Artist:Various
Cover:Kinky Boots (Cast Cd).jpg
Label:Masterworks Broadway
Producer:Cyndi Lauper
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Kinky Boots is a Broadway original cast album for the homonym musical Kinky Boots. It was released on May 28, 2013, less than two months after the show opened on Broadway.[1] It was produced by Cyndi Lauper, who wrote the songs, Stephen Oremus, the orchestrator and conductor, and William Wittman.[2] On release it premiered at number one on the Billboard Cast Albums Chart and number fifty-one on the Billboard 200 chart,[3] making it the highest charting Broadway cast recording since The Book of Mormons album was released two years earlier.[4] Vocalists on the album include Stark Sands, Billy Porter and Annaleigh Ashford, .

Before the album's release and the show's Chicago tryout beginning in October 2012, the song "Sex Is in the Heel" became the first Broadway song to reach the top 10 of the Billboard club charts in 25 years.[5] "Land of Lola" was released as a dance remix by Wayne G. & LFB in June 2013.[6]

Reception

The album received a favorable review in Playbill from Steven Suskin[7] and won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: "Everybody Say Yeah": Kinky Boots Broadway Cast Album Released May 28 . . playbill.com . 28 May 2013 . 7 June 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130605052759/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/178364-Everybody-Say-Yeah-Kinky-Boots-Broadway-Cast-Album-Released-May-28 . 5 June 2013 .
  2. Web site: Kinky Boots Cast Album Coming Soon! . . masterworksbroadway.com . 8 March 2013 . 7 June 2013.
  3. Web site: Kinky Boots Broadway Cast Album Debuts at #1 on Billboard Chart . . playbill.com . 7 June 2013 . 7 June 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130611164854/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/178853-Kinky-Boots-Broadway-Cast-Album-Debuts-at-1-on-Billboard-Chart . 11 June 2013 .
  4. Web site: Kinky Boots Debuts at No 1 On Billboard Cast Album Chart . Top 40 Charts . top40-charts.com . 7 June 2013 . 7 June 2013.
  5. Web site: So Unusual for a Theater Tunesmith. 2013-11-07. 2013-03-14. The New York Times. Ryzik, Melena.
  6. Web site: Kinky Boots "Land of Lola," With Billy Porter, Released as Dance Remix. Playbill. 2013-11-07. 2013-06-28. Hetrick, Adam. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131109113055/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/179642-Kinky-Boots-Land-of-Lola-With-Billy-Porter-Released-as-Dance-Remix. 2013-11-09.
  7. Web site: On The Record: The New Broadway Cast Album of Kinky Boots and Audra McDonald's "Go Back Home". 2013-11-07. 2013-08-04. Suskin, Steven. Playbill. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131203002347/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/180700-ON-THE-RECORD-The-New-Broadway-Cast-Album-of-Kinky-Boots-and-Audra-McDonalds-Go-Back-Home. 2013-12-03.
  8. Web site: Kinky Boots Wins Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. 2014-01-27. 2014-01-26. Playbill. Hetrick, Adam. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140201175328/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/186925-Kinky-Boots-Wins-Grammy-Award-for-Best-Musical-Theater-Album?tsrc=hph. 2014-02-01.

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