Broadway musical ‘Kinky Boots’ coming to Purdue

The Broadway musical “Kinky Boots” will be performed in Purdue University’s Elliott Hall of Music on Jan. 17 at 7:30 p.m. Download image

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Broadway musical “Kinky Boots” will be performed in Purdue University’s Elliott Hall of Music on Jan. 17 at 7:30 p.m. 

This performance is presented by Purdue Convocations with support from the Davis Family Endowment, First Merchants Bank and the Purdue Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Center.  

“Kinky Boots” is Broadway’s huge-hearted, high-heeled hit with songs by Grammy- and Tony-award winning pop icon Cyndi Lauper. This joyous musical celebration is about friendships we discover and the belief that you can change the world when you change your mind. 

Inspired by true events, “Kinky Boots” takes you from a gentlemen’s shoe factory in Northampton to the glamourous catwalks of Milan. Charlie Price is struggling to live up to his father’s expectations and continue the family business. With the factory’s future hanging in the balance, help arrives in the unlikely but spectacular form of Lola, a fabulous performer in need of some sturdy new stilettos. 

General public tickets cost $28-$60, while student tickets range in cost from $28-$42.

Initiated in 1902, Purdue Convocations was one of the first professional performing arts presenters in the United States. Each year, Convocations offers the region 30-40 performances of widely varying genres: Broadway-style shows, theater, dance, children's theater, world music, jazz, and chamber music, along with rock, pop, country and comedy attractions. With a vision for connecting artists and audiences in artistic dialogue and for drawing in academic discourse, Purdue Convocations aims to promote frequent exposure to and familiarity with human cultural expression in a multitude of forms and media. 

Source: Abby Eddy, Purdue Convocations director of marketing, (765)494-9712, aeeddy@purdue.edu

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