Kinky Boots (2005) Vs the Broadway Musical (2013) Chiwetel Ejiofor, Joel Edgerton, Billy Porter, & Matt Henry

<b><br />Book Vs. Movie: Kinky Boots</b><br /><b>The True Story Behind the 2005 Movie &amp; 2013 Broadway Musical (and the 2019 movie!)<br /><br />The “Month of Musicals” concludes with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinky_Boots_(musical)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Kinky Boots</a>, the true story of a footwear company in Earls Barton, North Hamptonshire, UK--<a href="https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/600025/Kinky-boots-factory-WJ-Brookes" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">WJ Brooks</a>. The factory was in <a href="https://twitter.com/KinkyBootMan" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Steve Pateman’s</a> family for decades when in the 1990s, they started losing money to the cheaper, faster competition. Pateman appeared on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trouble_at_the_Top" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">BBC’s Trouble at the Top documentary</a> showing how his company switched to creating boots for transvestites who needed more security when they stood in high heels. The collection expanded to “kink wear,” dubbed “Kinky Boots” by the BBC producers, and the story took off. </b><br /><b><br />In 2005, director <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0418982/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Julian Jarrold</a> and writers <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0213017/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Geoff Deane</a> and <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0278759/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tim Firth</a> brought the story to life (unfortunately, the factory had to close in 2000.) <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0249291/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Joel Edgerton</a> plays Charlie Price (the Steve Patemen substitute), and <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0252230/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Chiwetel Ejiofor’s</a> Lola is an amalgam of several drag queens that were customers of WJ Brooks's “Divine, Provider, and Lady Provider” brands.</b><br /><b></b><br /><b> The film has an amazing soun