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"In the new Broadway musical Kinky Boots, a drag queen named Lola sassily declares, \"Give me some glitter and a glue gun and I can make the world a pretty place.\" Although AD100 architect-designer David Rockwell's tools were a bit more sophisticated, he channeled that same audacious spirit into his brilliant set design.\n\nThe show, which opened April 4, reunites Rockwell with director-choreographer Jerry Mitchell\u2014the duo previously collaborated on Broadway hits including Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Little Shop of Horrors, and Hairspray, which garnered eight Tony Awards. In addition to Rockwell's set designs, Kinky Boots features music and lyrics by 1980s pop princess Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein. The show, based on the 2005 British film of the same name, tells the story of Charlie Price, a young Englishman who inherits his father's struggling shoe factory in dreary Northampton and, with help from Lola, finds a fashion-forward way to turn the business around. By the play's end, the action has moved to the glamorous Milan Shoe Fair, where, in Rockwell's words, \"Lola has been let loose on the world.\"\n\nTo see Rockwell's stunning sets for Kinky Boots, click here.\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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