The shoe fits for an effervescent and toe-tapping musical romp

Kinky Boots is as much a about self-acceptance as it is about shoes

Kayi Ushe poses with the Angels in Kinky Boots at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre Pic: Helen Maybanks

Kinky Boots

By Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper

Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin

Rating:****

Until August 31

It seems like a touch of madness to make a musical about the closure of a shoe factory, but there have been musicals made from stranger material: Thatcherism (Lee Hall’s socialist Billy Elliot), public toilets (the Tony award-winning Urinetown), and one of the lesser-known Founding Fathers of the United States (Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop extravaganza Hamilton).

Even ...