The producers of the UK and European tour of Kinky Boots The Musical have announced new casting for the show.
West End star Tosh Wanogho-Maud (Ain’t Too Proud, The Book of Mormon) will take over the role of Lola in the new tour of the Olivier, Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical.
Tosh is currently starring in Titanique at the Criterion Theatre, playing The Iceberg.
Kinky Boots is currently finishing up the first leg of its tour, with final dates in Oxford until this Saturday, 26 July 2025.
The Kinky Boots tour starts up again from 28 October 2025, playing Munich, Zurich, Stoke, Sunderland, Berlin and Oberhausen.
Also joining the cast will be Billy Roberts (Mrs Doubtfire) as Don, Jessica Daley (I Should Be So Lucky) as Nicola and Keith Alexander (The Herds) as Simon Sr.
They join current cast members Dan Partridge (Grease) as Charlie, Courtney Bowman (Legally Blonde) as Lauren, Scott Paige (I Should Be So Lucky) as George, Kathryn Barnes (Guys & Dolls), Liam Doyle (Heathers) as Harry, Jonathan Dryden Taylor (The Wizard of Oz) as Mr Price and Lucy Williamson (End Of The Rainbow) as Trish.
The cast is completed by newcomers Nathan Daly (Starlight Express), Annell Odarty (TINA – The Tina Turner Musical) and Craig Watson (Bat Out Of Hell The Musical), alongside continuing cast members Cerys Burton (The Odyssey), Kofi Dennis (The Wiz), Kaya Farrugia (There’s No Place Like Home), Ru Fisher (Something Rotten! Live in Concert), Jordan Isaac (Newsies), Tori McDougall (Billy Elliot), Liam McEvoy (Legally Blonde) and Ashley-Jordon Packer (A Chorus Line).
It was announced earlier this month that this tour of Kinky Boots will also come into the West End next year, playing at the London Coliseum from 17 March to 11 July 2026, starring Strictly Come Dancing’s Johannes Radebe – who recently played Lola on the current tour.
This brand new production of hit Broadway and West End musical Kinky Boots opened at the Curve Theatre in Leicester in January. The show originally opened on Broadway in 2013, before playing London’s Adelphi Theatre from 2015 to 2019.
Directed by the Curve’s Artistic Director Nikolai Foster (The Wizard of Oz, A Chorus Line), Kinky Boots The Musical is based on the hit movie, with a score by Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein.
Joining Nikolai Foster in the Kinky Boots creative team are choreography by Leah Hill, set and costume design by Robert Jones, musical supervision by George Dyer, lighting design by Ben Cracknell, sound design by Adam Fisher, casting by Harry Blumenau CDG CDA, wigs, hair and make up design by Campbell Young Associates with associate direction by Michaela Powell, associate choreography by Johnny Bishop, associate sound design by Harry Barker and production management by Setting Line.
In the show, after inheriting his family’s failing shoe factory and with a relationship on the rocks, life is proving to be very challenging for Charlie Price. That is until he meets Lola, a drag queen whose sparkle and unsteady heels might just hold the answer to saving the struggling business.
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