1/26/2024 0 Comments Grease springfield little theatreAnd that actor alone has five wigs and 11 costume changes! So much so, that we have just created him a little dressing room backstage so that he could just run off, change clothes real quick.” The actor, Brandon Looney, has three assistants helping him with all the rapid costume changes. In fact, said Rogers,” the character of Lola, who is the leading character in the show, is a drag performer in the show. The show uses something like 200 costumes. Speaking of stilettos and other footwear, Chuck Rogers noted the Little Theatre costume department has 162 pairs of boots and shoes, all of which have been hand-embellished and hand-painted. Just a big old, heartfelt Broadway musical that has some great tunes and a wonderful story.” It’s is one of those terrific, ‘feel-good’musicals. Be all that you can be and learn to love. Which is the whole point of “Kinky Boots,” a story about, as Chuck Rogers told us, “two people that meet and through their their love of a shoe, and their love of how a shoe is designed and made, they celebrate diversity. Well, over the last 15, 18 months, the show has gone from simple little Springfield Little Theatre June (season) closer, to this mega musical that is going to knock your boots off.” So then we said, well, let's just put it off for a year. “So then we got to 2020 and we're like, nope, that's not going to happen. ![]() It seems like five years ago! And then due to the pandemic, we decided, well, we'll just postpone it to September of 2020.” The hope, of course, was that the pandemic would have run its course by then. ![]() “We were originally going to do the show in June of 2019? Or 2020 maybe. “I feel like we should have opened a month ago, with all the time we've been putting into it!,” Rogers said. LT’s Chuck Rogers directs the production, and joined us live in the studio on KSMU “Arts News.” Springfield Little Theatre will open their 2021-22 mainstage season at the Landers Theatre with the sassy, dazzling, compassionate musical “Kinky Boots”, running September 10-26.
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