We are told, early on in Kinky Boots, that you are never more than ten paces from a transvestite. As someone who takes the Tube a lot, I think I knew that. Yet, in Kinky Boots, a new musical based on the 2005 British film, it feels as if we are never more than an inch from an entire posse of them.
“You see them all the time,” explains Lola, the perfect drag queen name, lash fabulous and wig-tastic and played with marvellous style by Matt Henry. This may be true but we don’t see them like THIS. Again, Lola provides the answer. “A drag queen puts on a dress and becomes Cleopatra. A transvestite puts on a dress and more likely than