On the stage, "Charlie" and "Lola" hold dazzling red boots, like holding a "long sword" that proclaims their ideals, they wield their youth on the catwalk, running freely on the conveyor belt, this is their stage, not swayed by anyone, not obscured by anything. After walking through the difficulties of entrepreneurship, the bumps of the love road, the family obstacles, and the self-doubt, they finally pushed the atmosphere of the whole audience to a climax in the most hilarious "raise up". Last night, the original Broadway musical "Queen of Boots" was performed in Shanghai Cultural Square, and the fire of dreams made everyone present boil with blood, and some audiences could not hold back, stood up and danced.
Picture: Stills of "Queen of Boots" Official picture
"Queen of Boots" tells the story of the success of two small people counterattacking. Shoe factory "atypical rich second generation" Charlie coincidentally met the "drag queen" Lola, the two from rejection, quarrel slowly into close friends, together design, build high heels that can withstand the weight of adult men, and finally shine on the international catwalk, so that the long-established shoe factory revitalized. The whole drama unfolds lightly in the flashes of 15 different scenes, and every change in the lighting style and light and shadow atmosphere is as wonderful and amazing as Lola's transvestite. The crew used 7 40-foot container containers to bring more than 100 pairs of prop shoes, more than 30 pairs of boots and 5 "assembly line" conveyor belts, which also ensured that the stage of the tour version was no less magnificent in scale and presentation quality than the Broadway scene.
This musical, which premiered on Broadway in 2013, was at the top of the Broadway box office as soon as it was staged, and became a "mainstream award Grand Slam" with high-quality word-of-mouth, which swept Europe, America, Japan and South Korea in just five years. As a rare "fresh" face in the domestic musical theater market in recent years, the introduction of this trendy musical allows domestic audiences to feel the original Broadway current style in real time, and watch the drama synchronously with the global musical theater audience. The person in charge of the producer said that the reason for choosing to introduce this play, in addition to valuing its script skills, production standards and spiritual value, is also to let Chinese audiences know that musicals have more than one style, hoping to lead Chinese audiences to feel the most contemporary renewal of Broadway musicals and appreciate the freshest international first-class musicals.
Yesterday, under the leadership of the production dance supervisor, the reporter also walked into the backstage of "Queen of Boots" for the first time, with exquisite stage machinery and fashionable and gorgeous costume props, everywhere showing the careful investment and detail control of "Queen of Boots" in production. In particular, the backstage is as diverse and dazzling assorted shoes, and all kinds of Matching Styles or British Style or Superstar Fans are amazing. It is worth mentioning that the drone at the door interprets the name of the Kinky Boots repertoire and the representative red boot logo in the air in the form of a light show, and the "boot door" that appears in the hall also allows the audience to play "Lola" in the dream situation in addition to watching the play. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhu Yuan)
Picture: Backstage dazzling shoes official picture