NewsPHOTO EXCLUSIVE: "Sex Is in the Heel!" A Two-Show Day at Broadway's Kinky Boots With Kyle PostKyle Post can be seen heating up the Al Hirschfeld Theatre nightly as one of Lola's Angels in the Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots. He documents a recent two-show day, offering an up-close look at the transformation into his drag persona, “Widdi Bantour.”
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PHOTO EXCLUSIVE: "Sex Is in the Heel!" A Two-Show Day at Broadway's Kinky Boots With Kyle Post
PHOTO EXCLUSIVE: "Sex Is in the Heel!" A Two-Show Day at Broadway's Kinky Boots With Kyle Post
Kyle Post can be seen heating up the Al Hirschfeld Theatre nightly as one of Lola's Angels in the Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots. He documents a recent two-show day, offering an up-close look at the transformation into his drag persona, “Widdi Bantour.”
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Good morning Playbill.com! Not going to lie, I’ve always followed these 2-show day features on the site so I’m super excited to do one for you today. I promise to bring you a look into my day that is free of gratuitous selfies, vanity or self promotion.
Kyle Post
So I start the day how I start every day: gazing at pictures of myself on my website, www.kylepost.com with my life sized bronze bust of my own head. That’s www.kylepost.com
Kyle Post
Breakfast of champions
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Next up, I meet my daily arch nemesis.
Kyle Post
The Angels room is always filled with such a glow… such a light on matinees.
People ask where I get the inspiration for my drag character, “Widdi Bantour.” This is her in a nutshell. Not the smartest apple in the bunch, but she always has fun. Now time to put on that makeup.
Kyle Post
This phase always looks like some strange circus performer… or alien.
Kyle Post
We put 72 pins in my head every show to keep the microphone/wigs on. I’m in utter peace and serenity about the process. Namaste.
Kyle Post
Wanna know the secret to a hit, blockbuster show? It’s a bottom lash. Shhhh
Kyle Post
The new guy, Alfie is still getting used to our ways in the Angel’s room. It’s a process. A long, strange process.
Kyle Post
One last mug to the mirror and we’re ready to go. SHAZAM!
Kyle Post
Charlie Sutton and I always do an ab routine during matinees. In synchronized swimming caps. Can’t make this stuff up.
Kyle Post
Then I make my dresser, Sue play hide and go seek with me and my bra. Again, not kidding.
Kyle Post
KTP is leaving us to play Lola on the Kinky Boots national tour so he thinks he can just sprawl out wherever he wants (I miss you already, Lorainne).
Kyle Post
After “In This Corner.” I always visit Michelle, our House Electrician. She bribes me with sweets. We have the best crew on Broadway at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
Kyle Post
This is what happens when you throw a bucket of water on a drag queen. Poof.
Kyle Post
I ran into two time Tony award nominee and fellow Rent alum, Robin de Jesus. It was kind of him not to look at me like the crazy person I look like. Acting.
Kyle Post
This is one of our hair dressers, Sabana. She can be seen here shopping for a bike helmet with me. She can also be seen here absolutely NAILING this shot. As always.
Kyle Post
Time for a nap. Broadway is glamorous.
Kyle Post
Guess who once had my dressing room spot? None other than my college roommate, Steel Burkhardt! Oh the things this dressing room station has seen…
Kyle Post
Time for the second show. Joey Taranto runs like a bat out of hell when he’s late to places.
Kyle Post
I don’t wanna take ALL the credit, but I’m pretty sure my amazing puppetry of Paddington Bear in "Sex Is in the Heel" is what won us the Tony… Maybe not… but probably.
Kyle Post
This shot made me giggle. Note the camouflage slippers. My dad must be so proud.
Kyle Post
Here at Kinky Boots, we’re happy to just share and commune and fellowship with one another backstage.
Kyle Post
In actuality it looks a lot more like this.
Kyle Post
Robert Pendilla deserves to be called out for his backstage attire. Here you go world wide web. Have at him.
Kyle Post
Time for the finale!
Kyle Post
There are few things in the world more terrifying than what we look like when we take off our makeup. Times Scare has nothing on us
Kyle Post
Nothing helps me unwind after a 2 show day like a bike ride home along the Hudson. Thanks for joining me for my day. Hope you had fun :)
With a Tony Award-winning score by Cyndi Lauper, a book by four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein and direction and choreography by two-time Tony Award winner Jerry Mitchell, Kinky Boots opened on April 4, 2013. The show recouped its costs in October 2013, after 30 weeks on Broadway.
Kinky Boots took home six 2013 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Score (Cyndi Lauper), Best Choreography (Jerry Mitchell), Best Actor (Billy Porter), Best Orchestrations (Stephen Oremus) and Best Sound Design (John Shivers). The show also received the Grammy Award for Best Musical Album.
In Kinky Boots, press notes state, "Charlie Price (Andy Kelso) has reluctantly inherited his father’s shoe factory, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. Trying to live up to his father’s legacy and save his family business, Charlie finds inspiration in the form of Lola (Billy Porter). A fabulous entertainer in need of some sturdy stilettos, Lola turns out to be the one person who can help Charlie become the man he’s meant to be. As they work to turn the factory around, this unlikely pair finds that they have more in common than they ever dreamed possible… and discovers that when you change your mind about someone, you can change your whole world."
The queer-themed short plays will be made available for free to non-profit theatres, schools, and community organizations to support fundraising for LGBTQIA+ groups.
