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The singer and playwright collaborated on bringing the 2005
film to the Broadway stage, and the show won them several Tony
Awards, including best musical and a best original score prize
for composer Lauper.
Now "Kinky Boots" comes to London, presenting the story about a
failing shoe factory reinventing itself by making boots for drag
queens to West End audiences.
Fierstein, who has won Tony awards for hit shows such as "La
Cage aux Folles" and "Hairspray" said it was particularly
poignant for the musical to open in London, as the story is set
in England.
"You're sitting in New York writing a show ... and you're
imagining stuff and now here we are," he said at the show's
London premiere on Tuesday night. "We've brought the show home."
Writing a musical was a new challenge for "Girls Just Want To
Have Fun" singer Lauper who has won two Grammy Awards over her
30 years plus career.
"I think that music is like cooking. You can add a lot of stuff
in there and it becomes more flavorful, it becomes more exciting
to me," Lauper told Reuters in an interview.
Asked about doing more musicals in the future, Lauper, 62, said
that while "there's a lot of other stuff on the table", her
first port of call is a new album in a new genre.
"Right after this, in October I'm going to do an album I've
wanted to do for like 20 years," she said.
"I'm going to go do a country record."
(Reporting By Holly Rubenstein; Writing by Marie-Louise
Gumuchian; editing by Ralph Boulton)
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