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A Kinky night out Hit Broadway musical making tracks for CN Centre Frank PEEBLES Citizen staff fpeebles@pgcitizen.ca
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ccording to True North Touring, the hit Broadway musical Kinky Boots – featuring songs by pop icon Cyndi Lauper – is coming to CN Centre on March 22. A ticket pre-sale opportunity begins today at 10 a.m. (Use passcode STEPONE). Kinky Boots projects power – the spiritual power of music and the sensual power of footwear. This hit on stage was also a popular British film based on the book telling the true story of a man who inherits a shoe factory and strikes up an unlikely partnership with a cabaret performer and drag queen. “Charlie Price reluctantly takes over his father’s business, a shoe factory, and he is looking for a new idea,” said CN Centre manager Glen Mikkelsen, explaining the plot. Charlie meets up, by way of a street fight, with Lola, a drag queen who tips over some dominoes in his brain that transform the business. It sets its focus on sexy footwear, especially the kind that can handle the weight and hip posi-
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Glen Mikkelsen wears his own kinky boots as he announces that the Broadway musical Kinky Boots will arrive at Prince George’s CN Centre on March 22. The show, with music by Cyndi Lauper, will be making its debut in northern B.C.
Glen Mikkelsen issued a challenge, at the grand announcement of the Broadway musical Kinky Boots coming to CN Centre, the building he manages. “You should Google ‘kinky boots’ at work and see what your boss says,” Mikkelsen suggested, as he tottered in leggy red dominatrix riders. In his blue shorts and sport coat, he was an urban mashup for which there are no words, but there was definitely a focal point. One could not help but stare at his towering footwear and wonder how he could stay aloft. One also might wonder how he came to have such architectural wonders to wear. “The internet is a marvelous thing,” he shrugged. When he knew Kinky Boots was coming to Prince George and needed a proper introduction, he found Model Express, a Vancouver purveyor of everything from hosiery to pasties, lingerie to fantasy footwear. Mikkelsen opted for the thighhigh Seduce 3000 boot. “I told the merchant I was looking for a Size 10 mens, probably a Size 12 womens, and it had to be able to handle the weight and the walk of a man,” Mikkelsen said. “He
tion of men in high heels. This hilarious romp earned 13 Tony Award nominations, taking home six of the coveted trophies including the all-important Best Musical as well as Best Score for Lauper. When it was staged in London, it picked up another set of honours: three Laurence Olivier Awards. It has been a smash in Toronto, Australia, Korea, Chicago, Japan, and scores of other places. Mikkelsen was in New York City on a family trip when he and his wife Joanne spotted ads for a Broadway show with which they were not familiar. They took a chance on Kinky Boots and it ended up being “one of the most exciting and fun Broadway shows” he had ever seen. When True North Touring called to say they were bringing the show to Canada, CN Centre was quickly penned into the schedule. “It is fun, it is lively, it is uplifting – a wonderful show,” Mikkelsen said. True North Touring is the presentation company behind The Illusionists and Dirty Dancing that previously performed at CN Centre. They are also the production house behind Rain: A Tribute To The Beatles, and have connections to the Winnipeg Jets and Manitoba Moose hockey franchises.
said yes, he could do that, so I asked him if he got a lot of requests for boots like these for men and he just said ‘ohhhhhhh yeah.’” It seemed at times, at the Tuesday morning announcement, that a stiff breeze or even a mild surprise might mean Mikkelsen wouldn’t live to see the afternoon. He tread carefully, but still had a fragile stance most of the time. “It raises the bar of admiration I have for the performers who have to work in high heels,” he said, which called to mind the famous quote by Ginger Rogers when her legendary dance partner Fred Astaire was praised for his smooth skills. She replied with an old Bob Thaves (artist/cartoonist) observation that she did everything he did, but backwards and in high heels. He laughed that thankfully Model Express mailed their merchandise in nondescript brown paper parcels, or he might have had some explaining to do at the office. He still has to expense these beauties for the work boots they are, in their way. “I wanted to wait on that until after today, so everyone would clearly know what they were for,” he said. They are for something kinky. Get the full long look on March 22. Tickets are on sale now through TicketsNorth. — PEEBLES, Citizen staff
Campground treaty land, defendants in lawsuit claim Mark NIELSEN Citizen staff mnielsen@pgcitizen.ca The Fraser-Fort George Regional District has no authority to shut down a campground on the north shore of Summit Lake because it’s on treaty land, the defendants in a lawsuit are contending. In responses recently filed in B.C. Supreme Court in Prince George, Bernard
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Dale Chingee and Justin Harris Chingee say they are members of the McLeod Lake Indian Band and so are beneficiaries of Treaty No. 8. Moreover, in accordance with a so-called adhesion agreement reached with the federal and provincial governments in 2000, they say any member who prefers to live apart from the band’s reserve lands “has the option to select land in severalty to the extent of 160 acres.”
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And they say that in August 2008, the provincial government conveyed the site to them in accordance with the agreement. In April 2011, they secured the first of two three-year temporary use permits from the FFGRD to operate Loons Haven Resort on a 3.24 hectare (eight acre) site on Caine Creek Road. The second expired in May 2017 and, according to notices of claim filed against the two on June 26, “there currently exists
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no permit or approval which would allow any use which is not in compliance with the regional district zoning requirements.” The FFGRD is seeking court orders to shut down a campground and compel the defendants to remove all buildings, campers and equipment and to remediate the site back to its previous state and, if they fail to do so, authorization for the FFGRD to carry out the work at the defendants’ cost. — see DEFENDANTS, page 3
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