Melbourne puts on Kinky Boots

The 2013 Tony Award winning Best Musical will open in Melbourne in October next year.

10 Jul 2015 12:00

Richard Watts

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Performing Arts

Original Broadway production; photo by Matthew Murphy.

The Australian premiere of the hit Broadway musical Kinky Boots will open at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne, in October 2016.

The announcement was made today by Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, following a meeting with the musical’s producers and cast in New York City.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts