
Three years after it closed on Broadway, the musical “Kinky Boots” returns to New York City. The show may not have changed, but the country has.
The Cyndi Lauper- and Harvey Fierstein-created musical landed on Broadway in 2013 in the middle of the Obama administration, a big hug of acceptance, tolerance and love. It reappears off-Broadway now at Stage 42 as same-sex gains and privacy rights seem under threat.