{"id":41258,"date":"2018-10-12T13:28:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T12:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=41258"},"modified":"2018-10-12T13:28:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T12:28:27","slug":"conor-maynard-announced-as-lead-for-kinky-boots-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/10\/conor-maynard-announced-as-lead-for-kinky-boots-on-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Maynard Announced As Lead For Kinky Boots On Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>UK pop sensation Conor Maynard has been announced to take over the role of \u2018Charlie Price\u2019 in the the Tony Award\u00ae-winning musical &#8216;Kinky Boots&#8217; at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, New York, beginning on November 20th\u00a02018 until January 10th\u00a02019.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\" data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding his upcoming role in\u00a0Kinky Boots, Conor says,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI am honored and beyond excited to be able to join the incredible company of &#8216;Kinky Boots&#8217;. I\u2019ve always truly admired the talent that performers on Broadway possess and performing alongside them is going to be a real challenge. I\u2019m so lucky to have the most devoted fans on the planet, and I can\u2019t wait to show them another side of me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Conor Maynard is taking over the lead Broadway role of \u2018Charlie Price\u2019 from the US star Mark Ballas. \u2018Charlie Price\u2019 is a role that has also been played on Broadway by the likes of Brendon Urie and Jake Shears in the past.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Conor is fast approaching 100 MILLION streams of his summer smash hit single \u2018Whenever\u2019. Recorded in collaboration with Kris Kross Amsterdam and The Boy Next Door, it was released via Spinnin\u2019 Records\/Parlophone at the end of June and has proven to be a huge international hit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now garnering well over a million streams every day, \u2018Whenever\u2019 has clocked up over 88 million plays on Spotify alone, featuring in their Global Top 50. The track is clocking up millions of further streams across other streaming platforms, including almost 10 million views of the\u00a0video\u00a0on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/heVJaMvCmR0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The song is now charting in 25 countries, causing a huge wave of interest in Conor in the USA and has already been certified gold in The Netherlands, and Sweden, with many other countries soon to follow suit. In the UK it features on 20 of the most influential playlists across Spotify and Apple Music.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Conor Maynard has also been busy working on new music for his brand new album over the past few months in Los Angeles. He is returning to the UK later this month for a number of TV and radio appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK pop sensation Conor Maynard has been announced to take over the role of \u2018Charlie Price\u2019 in the the Tony Award\u00ae-winning musical &#8216;Kinky Boots&#8217; at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, New York, beginning on November 20th 2018 until January 10th 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10377,7],"tags":[16997,791,16995,15109,16996,15525,180,17000,16999,16998,15106],"class_list":["post-41258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-music","tag-al-hirschfeld-theatre","tag-broadway","tag-charlie-price","tag-conor-maynard","tag-kinky-boots","tag-kris-kross-amsterdam","tag-new-york","tag-parlophone","tag-spinnin-records","tag-the-boy-next-door","tag-whenever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-aJs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37431,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/06\/conor-maynard-features-on-whenever-by-kris-kross-amsterdam-x-the-boy-next-door\/","url_meta":{"origin":41258,"position":0},"title":"Conor Maynard Features On &#8216;Whenever&#8217; 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