Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein discuss the return of KinkyBoots and its early production huddles
over the phone, “And Ithat theater. I love how open it is – there’s no balcony to overhang and block your view and mess up the sound. You can balance the sound so well in that space. There’s not a bad seat in the house, and it has a nice airy feeling to it. It plays beautifully in this space.”
“The fact that there were so many different kinds of people in the show was exciting,” Lauper recalls of what made her sign on in the first place. “It was inclusive. It was more like real life.” , bristles somewhat at the idea of drag being a throughline in his career. “Nobody says to David Mamet, ‘You have a lot of working people in your shows,’ or to Arthur Miller, ‘What’s with all those heterosexuals?'” Fierstein points out. Even so, he acknowledges that “playing with sexuality is just fun. It’s so theatrical and wonderful on stage — and it’s all drag. If you’re gonna dress up anyway, you might as well dress up pretty!” he adds, cackling.
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