Kinky Boots, the droll story of a drag queen rescuing a failing shoe factory by switching its focus to thigh-high boots favored by cross-dressers was, , a well-polished evening of musical comedy with soulful ballads and glitzy production numbers. But this construction felt so manipulative, so by-the-numbers as if it, too, came off a factory production line.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:24PM on March 3, 2016