List of awards and nominations for the musical Kinky Boots

Kinky Boots is a musical that opened on Broadway in 2013, winning the Tony Award for Best Musical and various other awards that season. The show has a book by Harvey Fierstein and songs by Cyndi Lauper.[1] Kinky Boots is based on the 2005 British film of the same name,[2] which was, in turn, inspired by a true story.[3]

The original production was directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell and orchestrated by Stephen Oremus. Scenic design was by David Rockwell, costumes by Gregg Barnes, lighting by Kenneth Posner and sound by John Shivers. The cast starred Billy Porter as Lola and Stark Sands as Charlie and featured Annaleigh Ashford as Lauren.[4]

Early in the 2013 awards season, Kinky Boots did well, receiving Drama League Award nominations for Distinguished Production of a Musical and Distinguished Performance, for both Porter and Sands,[5] and winning for Distinguished Production.[6] The show received nine Outer Critics Circle Award nominations, winning three, including Outstanding New Broadway Musical, Outstanding New Score and Outstanding Actor in a Musical (Porter).[7] The musical received only two Drama Desk Award nominations, however, and only one win: Porter for Outstanding Actor in a Musical.[8]

Kinky Boots received a season-high 13 Tony Award nominations.[4] Matilda, which The New York Times described as the "unalloyed critical hit" of the season, received 12 nominations, 11 of them in the same categories as Kinky Boots.[9] In addition to its critical success, Matilda had won the Drama Desk Award for outstanding musical and had set a record by winning the most Olivier Awards in history.[10] Nevertheless, Kinky Boots won a season-high six Tonys, including Best Musical, which the press described as an upset, and Lauper's win for Best Score made her the first woman to win alone in that category.[11] The creative team are Americans, and reviewer David Cote, an American writing in The Guardian, judged that the show's win was a case of "the balance of love going to a homegrown American musical, Kinky Boots, over the British import Matilda."[12] Kinky Boots also won the 2013 Artios Award for Outstanding Achievement in Casting in the Broadway musical category.[13]

Kinky Boots won the award for Best Musical Theater Album at the Grammy Awards in January 2014.[14]

Awards and nominations

Original Broadway production

Year Award Category Nominee Result
2013 Drama League Award Distinguished Production of a Musical Won
Distinguished Performance Billy Porter Nominated[6]
Stark Sands Nominated[6]
Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding New Broadway Musical Won[7]
Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) Harvey Fierstein Nominated[7]
Outstanding New Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) Cyndi Lauper Won[7]
Outstanding Director of a Musical Jerry Mitchell Nominated[7]
Outstanding Choreographer Nominated[7]
Outstanding Costume Design (Play or Musical) Gregg Barnes Nominated[7]
Outstanding Actor in a Musical Billy Porter Won[7]
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical Daniel Stewart Sherman Nominated[7]
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Annaleigh Ashford Nominated[7]
Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actor in a Musical Billy Porter Won[8]
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Annaleigh Ashford Nominated[8]
Tony Award Best Musical Won[4]
Best Book of a Musical Harvey Fierstein Nominated[4]
Best Original Score Cyndi Lauper Won[4]
Best Actor in a Musical Billy Porter Won[4]
Stark Sands Nominated[4]
Best Featured Actress in a Musical Annaleigh Ashford Nominated[4]
Best Scenic Design of a Musical David Rockwell Nominated[4]
Best Costume Design of a Musical Gregg Barnes Nominated[4]
Best Lighting Design of a Musical Kenneth Posner Nominated[4]
Best Sound Design of a Musical John Shivers Won[4]
Best Direction of a Musical Jerry Mitchell Nominated[4]
Best Choreography Won[4]
Best Orchestrations Stephen Oremus Won[4]
Artios Award Outstanding Achievement in Casting
New York Broadway Theatre – Musical		 Bernard Telsey, Justin Huff Won[13]
2014 Grammy Award Best Musical Theater Album Billy Porter & Stark Sands (principal soloists); Sammy James Jr., Cyndi Lauper, Stephen Oremus & William Wittman (producers); Cyndi Lauper (composer and lyricist) Won[14]

Original West End Production

Year Award Category Nominee Result
2016 WhatsOnStage Awards Best New Musical Won
Best Actor in a Musical Killian Donnelly Nominated
Matt Henry Won
Best Supporting Actress in a Musical Amy Lennox Nominated
Best Director Jerry Mitchell Nominated
Best Choreography Won
Best Set Design David Rockwell Nominated
Best Lighting Design Kenneth Posner Nominated
Best West End Show Nominated
Laurence Olivier Award Best New Musical Won
Best Actor in a Musical Killian Donnelly Nominated
Matt Henry Won
Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical Amy Lennox Nominated
Best Theatre Choreographer Jerry Mitchell Nominated
Best Costume Design Gregg Barnes Won
Outstanding Achievement in Music Cyndi Lauper for lyricising and scoring & Stephen Oremus for arranging, orchestrating and music supervising Nominated

Notes

  1. ↑ Ryzik, Melena (2013-03-14). "So Unusual for a Theater Tunesmith". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-11-07.
  2. ↑ "Cyndi Lauper-Harvey Fierstein Musical Kinky Boots Opens in Chicago Oct. 17; Broadway Is Next". playbill.com. Playbill. 17 October 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
  3. ↑ Ferri, Josh. "Fetish Footwear, Acclaimed Film & Rockin' Broadway Musical: Explore the Many Steps of Kinky Boots", Broadway.com, March 16, 2013, accessed November 14, 2013
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Purcell, Carey (2013-06-09). "Kinky Boots, Vanya and Sonia, Pippin and Virginia Woolf Are Big Winners at 67th Annual Tony Awards". Playbill. Retrieved 2013-06-10.
  5. ↑ Gans, Andrew (2013-04-25). "Nominees Announced for 79th Annual Drama League Awards". Playbill. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
  6. 1 2 3 Gans, Andrew (May 17, 2013). "Kinky Boots, Pippin, Vanya and Sonia, Virginia Woolf and More Win Drama League Awards". Playbill. Retrieved May 17, 2013.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Gans, Andrew (May 13, 2013). "Pippin Is Big Winner of 2012-13 Outer Critics Circle Awards". Playbill. Retrieved May 13, 2013.
  8. 1 2 3 Hetrick, Adam (2013-05-19). "Billy Porter, Andrea Martin, Pippin, Matilda, Vanya and Sonia Win Drama Desk Awards". Playbill. Retrieved 2013-05-20.
  9. ↑ Healy, Patrick (2013-04-30). "It's Kinky Boots vs. Matilda in Tony Nominations". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-11-10.
  10. ↑ "Matilda musical breaks Olivier awards record". BBC. April 15, 2012. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
  11. ↑ Healy, Patrick (2013-06-10). "Kinky Boots Dances to the Top of the Tonys". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
  12. ↑ Cote, David (2013-06-10). "Tony awards 2013: Matilda left wanting as Kinky Boots dances to victory: Tony voters stuck to the American side of Broadway – even if Kinky Boots came with an English pedigree". The Guardian. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
  13. 1 2 "Artios Awards", Casting Society of America, accessed November 20, 2013
  14. 1 2 Hetrick, Adam (2014-01-26). "Kinky Boots Wins Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album". Playbill. Retrieved 2014-01-27.

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