From March 5 through April 26, Emmy winner Wayne Brady (Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Let鈥檚 Make a Deal) will return to Broadway and step back into Lola鈥檚 Kinky Boots.
The game show host, improviser, comedian, and musical theatre actor previously played the role from November 2015 through March 2016. He visited the set of The Daily Show to discuss his return.
鈥淥n the surface when I say Lola is a drag queen, immediately there are some people [who make judgments] about the narrative,鈥� he says in the video below. 鈥淲hatever you鈥檙e thinking is wrong. Lola is a drag queen, but Lola鈥檚 a drag queen who is a former boxer and a British former boxer.鈥�
鈥淚鈥檓 happy to be a black man playing this role that causes some people to have such problems with it,鈥� Brady explains. 鈥淭he reason I wanted to play Lola is because I love what Lola stands for: Just be yourself, whoever you are.鈥�
In addition to his turn in Kinky Boots, Brady previously appeared on Broadway as Billy Flynn in Chicago. He also succeeded Joshua Henry in the role of Aaron Burr in the Chicago production of Hamilton.
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