The current UK & Ireland tour of hit musical Kinky Boots The Musical has added two new dates.
The show will now visit Stoke-on-Trent’s Regent Theatre from 25 to 29 November 2025; and the Sunderland Empire Theatre from 2 to 6 December 2025.
The tour was originally set to end in Oxford on 26 July, but is coming back for the two new UK dates, and a tour in Germany and Switzerland.
The brand new production of hit Broadway and West End musical Kinky Boots opened at the Curve Theatre in Leicester in January, and has so far visited Woking, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Truro, Norwich, Milton Keynes, Cardiff, and Brighton.
After a short break, the tour is now starting up again, playing the Birmingham Hippodrome from 15 April 2025, and then Plymouth, Stockton, Newcastle, Bristol, Leeds, Southampton, Southend, Canterbury, Belfast, Sheffield, Nottingham, Liverpool, Dublin, and Oxford.
The European dates for Kinky Boots are Munich Germany (28 October to 9 November 2025), Zurich Switzerland (11 to 23 November 2025), then Stoke-on-Trent and Sunderland, before Berlin Germany (12 December 2025 to 17 January 2026) and Oberhausen Germany (20 January to 1 February 2026).
Casting for the additional dates, including Germany, is to be announced.
The tour currently stars Strictly Come Dancing’s Johannes Radebe as Lola, West End leading man Dan Partridge (Grease The Musical) as Charlie Price, and award-winner Courtney Bowman (Legally Blonde, SIX) as Lauren.
The cast also includes Kara Lily Hayworth (Cilla The Musical) as Nicola, Joe Caffrey (Billy Elliot) as Don, Kathryn Barnes (Guys & Dolls) as Pat, Lucy Williamson (Fame!) as Trish, Jonathan Dryden Taylor (Fiddler On The Roof) as Mr Price, Scott Paige (I Should Be So Lucky) as George and Liam Doyle (Heathers) as Harry. Also, Newtion Matthews (Once On This Island) will play Lola at certain performances, and Simon Snr at other performances, when Johannes Radebe isn’t performing.
Casting is completed by Kofi Dennis (Hamlet), Ru Fisher (Something Rotten! Live In Concert), Ben Middleton (Grease), Ashley-Jordon Packer (A Chorus Line), Cerys Burton (The Odyssey), Cole Dunn (The Wizard Of Oz), Kaya Farrugia (There’s No Place Like Home), Jordan Isaac (Evita), Deena Kapadia (Grease), Tori Mcdougall (Billy Elliot) and Liam Mcevoy (Legally Blonde).
Directed by the Curve’s Artistic Director Nikolai Foster (The Wizard of Oz, A Chorus Line), Kinky Boots The Musical show 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 is 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.
Kinky Boots is now touring the UK and Ireland.
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