"Overall, the show looks and feels like a slightly sized-down photocopy of the original."
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"Despite these nit-picks, now is the perfect time to see 'Kinky Boots'. The musical is no longer a simple feel-good tale; it’s an important entreaty for equality."
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"In a more confined space like this one, where the audience is closer to the actors, the dancing just explodes off the stage in the most exciting ways."
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" 'Kinky Boots' doesn’t necessarily call for suspension of disbelief – only some suspension of the most exacting critical standards. That’s how eager, entertainment-loving customers will get — and are getting — a great, big boot out of it. Make that a great, big, glittering kinky boot."
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Several years after vacating its Broadway home, "Kinky Boots" has settled in to a cozier off-Broadway venue, Stage 42, at a presumed discount for theatergoers, albeit with a much smaller orchestra and actors whose talents far exceed their name recognition (and no mask mandates, which might be a deal breaker for some). Also returning is director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell who gives the resized production the same energy as the original, nurturing a buoyant vibe that, as before, underscores the show's positive messages about celebrating difference, particularly as it relates to hoary conceptions of masculinity. But, when everything is said and sung, Fierstein and Lauper's joyously uplifting, but shallow, efforts are only memorable for meaning well. That's not nothing, especially these days, but the show could have been so much more.
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"Too often, though, the show wears its heart on its sleeve, leading to conflicts and themes that are inorganic, even clichéd."
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"'Kinky Boots' is also just good solid fun. The music is upbeat; the costumes sparkle; the singing is gorgeous and athletic, and the performances by many in the cast are stellar."
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" 'Kinky Boots' is instructive without being pedantic, sweet without being cloying, and all-around entertaining."
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