Kinky Boots - Adelphi

No idea, but if they do recast then I doubt they'd put a 'star' in the role. The cast change wasn't that long ago and they went with a full cast of MT talent again.

He has signed on for another year, no idea where the talk of him leaving in January has come from, don't worry!

Okay sorry I just seemed to recall reading that but I was wrong. It's probably because the show was booking until January when the cast change was announced; must've got confused.

I love how Kinky Boots has a full MT cast, I think it needs that MT cast rather than a star playing Charlie or Lola

Saw this for the second time tonight. There are so many holes they should call it Swiss cheese.

I've never really liked David Hunter and tonight didn't change my mind. He's got a much nicer tone than whiny Killian though.

The first half REALLY drags in places. The second half isn't fleshed out enough. The script is still too American for it to believably English.

However, overall it's still a really fun night out.

P.S. The wigs are truly terrible up close. They'd be better letting the women make terrible hairstyles with their own hair.

I went to the matinee today. First time seeing new cast, second time seeing the show overall.

Loved the show, as i did first time, my only thing was the same as first time around...i much preferred the first act to the second. For me i think the pace and tone drops a bit too much in the second act..there are fewer songs...it gets quite wordy instead....then where there is songs they are fraught/emotional...until the burst of joy and energy of the finale. I feel like they could do with another uptempo song somewhere in the 2nd act to lift it a bit. That's not to say i don't enjoy the second act cus i just do..just saying i think it's the weaker act for me.

I thought the new cast were great. I enjoyed Dvid Hunter, maybe not as much as Killian, i can't really decide. Elena Skye i actually thought was fantastic, again maybe not as good as Amy, not maybe milking it all quite as much, but still thought she was hilarious. The Angels seemed to have a few dodgy moments, not sure if there were some in there who weren't quite familiar with their roles, don't know, but they didn't seem as fierce and have as much personality or engergy to me as the original set of angels.

Matt Henry i think has even improved on his performance i saw during previews, which even then was fantastic, i think his acting has improved especially. His voice is fantastic and as i did the first time, loved his Not My Fathers Son. Just a powerhouse performance all round really.

So yeh, just really enjoyed it, as i did first time, some things were better, some a bit under, but all round just such a fun, funny and entertaining spectacle.

For anyone interested, the 3rd cover for Lola, 'Jemal Felix' will be on this evening for the first time!! The original casts 3rd cover never got to go on. Originally it was Simon who is 2nd cover but for whatever reason he isn't anymore. It would be great to see for anyone who is close by!

Simon-Anthony Rhoden, who was meant to go on as Lola (2nd u/s) on Monday but backed out of it a few hours before the show, went on last night for the first time. He is also on for both shows today!

Unusually for that show, he didn't tweet about being on yesterday and neither did any other cast members, which is unusual because the cast of Kinky Boots are usually very vocal on social media about when they're on in their cover roles or when swings are on. The first of it being publicly 'advertised' was when Michael Vinsen tweeted about it after. I wonder why ? he tweeted about being on for Lola on Monday before he backed out. It could be it happened so last minute that he had no time! but he had friends in watching so I'm not so sure about that one.

On a side note, Jemal Felix who went on as Lola on Monday (3rd cover, highly unlikely he will get on again if the original cast is anything to go by) has got great reviews by a few people who managed to get tickets to see him.

Maybe backed out wasn't the best choice of words by me lol as some people may read that as if he didn't want to go on as Lola, I'm more meaning that he tweeted he was on about 3pm and then at 4pm tweeted that his debut is 'on hold' for a little while. My best guess was he must have realised he wasn't feeling 100% and didn't want to be debuting while not feeling fully fit ? I know there's some hard core fans of the show on here and twitter so hopefully someone knows better than me! Still hoping someone will know why neither him nor his cast members tweeted about it yesterday when they were all tweeting about it on Monday.

Jemal is great as an Angel, he has legs for days which actually looks very unusual when you first see them but it makes him stand out from the rest. It would be great to see him as Lola opposite Paul Ayres as Charlie, Paul is probably the smallest male in the cast and Jemal must be about 6ft8 in his heels.

Craig is the 1st cover Lola and was on holiday last week so I'm not sure if he is still on holiday or is ill ? Matt isn't scheduled on the website to be on holiday so he must be ill. My programme lists Jemal ahead of Simon also but a friend told me that they only decided recently to make Simon 2nd cover instead of Jemal, I'm not too sure on the reasoning behind that.

Simon is a slightly different swing from the others in that he doesn't cover any of the angels, only Lola and Factory Workers! Once again, I've no idea why this is the case. I could only assume its because with the original cast, when Robert Grose who plays Simon Senior, is off, they had to get one of the angels to go in his track as its fairly essential to the plot that its a person of colour who does that track, although I guess they could away with it as that part in the scene is quite dark. Simon played Simon Senior from his debut in August for 3 months straight while Robert was off ill, he had some kind of operation I believe.

That's strange, what about Marcus? I mean it's not exactly a lot to say "take those things off your feet and get inside her, stupid boy".  

Possibly. But if Simon/Lola is a child anyway it wouldn't really matter? Simon has played that role before and he's young.

Hmmm, I can't remember exactly when it was, it might have been when Marcus was out too (I know I've seen the show once without him).  Either way, they were down a male in the ensemble so Marcus would have been needed as an angel, so he'd still have had to do it backwards - Simon Sr. being in drag makeup doesn't exactly fit the character.