Broadway set to get 'Kinky'

July 08, 2008 "Kinky Boots," one of the first releases by the post-Weinstein Miramax in 2006, starred Chiwetel Ejiofor as a drag queen who helps the chief of a struggling Midlands shoe company save his business by designing a line of fetish shoes. Roth is one of several producers who has been bringing the theater and film worlds closer together; she recently joined with film producer Richard Gladstein to acquire the film rights for the the novel "Apologize, Apologize" and will develop it for the big screen. The Tony winner served as the choreographer for the Broadway productions of "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," "Hairspray" and "The Full Monty," which like "Kinky Boots" is a raunchy but goodhearted British comedy with class overtones.

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