Corrie star Paula Lane to appear in musical Kinky Boots at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre and Birmingham Hippodrome
Corrie star Paula Lane will be taking to the stage in Wolverhampton this autumn in award-winning musical Kinky Boots.
Winner of every major Best Musical award, Kinky Boots will be visiting the Grand Theatre from October 16 to 27 and features Paula, known for her role as Kylie Platt in Coronation Street, as Lauren, Callum Francis as Lola, and Joel Harper-Jackson as Charlie.
Also joining the cast is Staffordshire singer and actress Niki Evans, who finished fourth on the fourth series of The X Factor in 2007.
Kinky Boots will then move to Birmingham Hippodrome from March 19 to 23 with Paula, Joel, and Kayi Ushe as Lola.
Inspired by true events, the musical takes the audience from a gentlemen’s shoe factory in Northampton to the glamorous catwalks of Milan.
Charlie Price 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, a fabulous performer in need of some sturdy new stilettos.
Paula Lane has appeared on stage in Be More Martyn at Southwark Playhouse and The Bengal Lily at Manchester Royal Exchange. Her television and film credits include Coronation Street, Doctors, Heartbeat, The Royal, Going Postal and War Wounds.
The production is being directed and choreographed by two-time Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell or Legally Blonde and Hairspray, and produced by Daryl Roth and and Hal Luftig and Playful Productions, in association with Cameron Mackintosh.
It 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 played Lola at the Adelphi Theatre. The show also won the London Evening Standard BBC Radio 2 Audience Award for Best Musical as well as three WhatsOnStage Awards for Best New Musical, Best Actor in a Musical and Best Choreography.
Tickets for Kinky Boots in Wolverhampton are on sale now. Tickets from £19.50 can be bought through the Grand Theatre Box Office in person, by calling 01902 42 92 12 or online at grandtheatre.co.uk.
