TIL_Easter

30
The London cast of Kinky Boots.
KINKY BOOTS CELEBRATES ITS
1000TH PERFORMANCE
Kinky Boots, the winner of every
major Best Musical award, has recently
celebrated its1000th performance and
has now received its 1,000,000th
customer in the West End. The
production has also announced the
opening of a new booking period, with
tickets now available until 30 June.
Kinky Boots at the Adelphi Theatre
has become a favourite with UK
theatregoers having won three Olivier
Awards for Best New Musical, Best
Costume Design and Best Actor in a
Musical for Matt Henry who previously
played Lola. Kinky Boots also won the
London Evening Standard BBC Radio 2
Audience Award for Best Musical as well
as three WhatsOnStage Awards.
Inspired by true events, Kinky Boots
takes the audience from a gentlemen’s
shoe factory in Northampton to the
glamorous catwalks of Milan. Charlie
Price (David Hunter) is struggling to live
up to his father’s expectations and
continue the family business of Price &
Son. With the factory’s future hanging in
the balance, help arrives in the unlikely
but spectacular form of Lola (Simon-
Anthony Rhoden), a fabulous performer
in need of some sturdy new stilettos.
For tickets, telephone 020 7087 7754
Photo by Matt Crockett
WORLD PREMIERE OF TRIOPERAS:
TURANDOT, BUTTERFLY & CARMEN
For the first time ever, three of the
world’s most famous female-led operas
have been dramatically revised with their
stories told through the eyes of composer
and interpreter, Pamela Tan–Nicholson,
for the world premiere of TriOperas, in
celebration of the 100th anniversary of the
UK’s women’s suffrage. This radical new
show, inspired by three of the best
known female characters in opera,
Turandot, Madam Butterfly and Carmen,
opens at the Peacock Theatre on 23
May, for a limited season until 1 July.
TriOperas portrays the three women as
reluctant heroines generations ahead of
their time. Turandot is a cross-dressing
daredevil warrior-princess, Madame
Butterfly is an ambitious and proud
Japanese geisha, and Carmen, the freespirited
Spanish gypsy party girl. This
innovative production, which challenges
conventional depictions of the female
protagonists, features a glorious fusion of
classical music, musical theatre, circus,
martial arts and dance.
Uniquely, TriOperas has been
designed for all female cast members to
rotate roles in the three operas. Nine
multi-talented female performers from a
variety of artistic disciplines and
backgrounds feature in the production –
Sianna Bruce, Keedie Green, Sara
Hamilton, Lucy Kay, Martina Mennell,
Sarah Naudi, Shoreina Pereira, Katie
Shalka and Chiarra Vinci.
TriOperas merges opera singing with
punk, rap, rock and hip-hop and a
display of acrobatics, kung-fu, puppetry,
breakdancing, tap, ballet, salsa, Chinese
lion wushu and parkour. Stories are
brought to life by a stellar production
team, including choreographers such as
Royal Ballet Principal Steven McRae,
Sadler’s Wells' Breakin’ Convention
Director Jonzi D, Masters Siow and Tang
from Kun Seng Keng Lion and Dragon
Dance Association.
t h i s i s l o n d o n m a g a z i n e • t h i s i s l o n d o n o n l i n e