Kinky Boots (Broadway cast album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Kinky Boots

| type = cast recording

| artist = various artists

| cover = Kinky Boots (Cast Cd).jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|2013|05|28}}

| recorded =

| studio =

| genre =

| length = {{duration|m=55|s=2}}

| label = Masterworks Broadway

| producer = Cyndi Lauper

| chronology = Cyndi Lauper

| prev_title = Memphis Blues

| prev_year = 2010

| next_title = Detour

| next_year = 2016

}}

Kinky Boots is a Broadway original cast album for the homonym musical Kinky Boots. It was released on May 28, 2013, less than two months after the show opened on Broadway.{{cite magazine | url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/178364-Everybody-Say-Yeah-Kinky-Boots-Broadway-Cast-Album-Released-May-28 | title="Everybody Say Yeah": Kinky Boots Broadway Cast Album Released May 28 | magazine=Playbill | date=28 May 2013 | access-date=7 June 2013 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605052759/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/178364-Everybody-Say-Yeah-Kinky-Boots-Broadway-Cast-Album-Released-May-28 | archive-date=5 June 2013 }} It was produced by Cyndi Lauper, who wrote the songs, Stephen Oremus, the orchestrator and conductor, and William Wittman.{{cite web | url=http://www.masterworksbroadway.com/news/kinky-boots-cast-album-coming-soon | title=Kinky Boots Cast Album Coming Soon! | publisher=Masterworks Broadway | work=masterworksbroadway.com | date=8 March 2013 | access-date=7 June 2013}} On release it premiered at number one on the Billboard Cast Albums Chart and number fifty-one on the Billboard 200 chart,{{cite magazine | url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/178853-Kinky-Boots-Broadway-Cast-Album-Debuts-at-1-on-Billboard-Chart | title=Kinky Boots Broadway Cast Album Debuts at #1 on Billboard Chart | magazine=Playbill | date=7 June 2013 | access-date=7 June 2013 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130611164854/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/178853-Kinky-Boots-Broadway-Cast-Album-Debuts-at-1-on-Billboard-Chart | archive-date=11 June 2013 }} making it the highest charting Broadway cast recording since The Book of Mormon{{'}}s album was released two years earlier.{{cite web | url=http://top40-charts.com/news/Movies/Kinky-Boots-Debuts-At-No-1-On-Billboard-Cast-Album-Chart/90721.html | title=Kinky Boots Debuts at No 1 On Billboard Cast Album Chart | website=Top 40 Charts | date=7 June 2013 | access-date=7 June 2013}} Vocalists on the album include Stark Sands, Billy Porter and Annaleigh Ashford.

Before the album's release and the show's Chicago tryout beginning in October 2012, the song "Sex Is in the Heel" became the first Broadway song to reach the top 10 of the Billboard club charts in 25 years.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/theater/cyndi-lauper-on-being-a-composer-for-kinky-boots.html|title=So Unusual for a Theater Tunesmith|access-date=2013-11-07| date=2013-03-14| work=The New York Times|author=Ryzik, Melena}} "Land of Lola" was released as a dance remix by Wayne G. & LFB in June 2013.{{cite magazine| url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/179642-Kinky-Boots-Land-of-Lola-With-Billy-Porter-Released-as-Dance-Remix| title=Kinky Boots{{'}} "Land of Lola," With Billy Porter, Released as Dance Remix| magazine=Playbill| access-date=2013-11-07| date=2013-06-28| author=Hetrick, Adam| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109113055/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/179642-Kinky-Boots-Land-of-Lola-With-Billy-Porter-Released-as-Dance-Remix| archive-date=2013-11-09}}