The musical adaptation of Kinky Boots, the hit film set in a Northampton shoe factory, has been nominated for 13 Tony awards.
The show launched last month and has been recognised by the awards, which are handed out for achievements in live Broadway theatre.
The show tells the story of Charlie Price, who has suddenly inherited his father’s shoe factory, which is on the verge of dissolving. The unlikely salvation comes in the form of transforming the factory into a fetish boot fashion house.
Kinky Boots is based on the true story of Earls Barton shoemaker Steve Pateman’s Divine Footwear, which was featured in an episode of the BBC documentary series Trouble at the Top.
Pateman’s family’s manufacturing company WJ Brooks Ltd was on the brink of collapse until he received a random phone call from a woman from a fetish shoe shop in Folkestone, who asked Steve if he could supply her with ladies’ shoes in men’s sizes.
The niche market of erotic footwear in men’s sizes suddenly opened up, and Kinky Boots was born.
The Tony Awards will be handed out at a ceremony at New York’s Radio City Music Hall on June 9.