And the kind of voters Kinky's appealed to aren't often counted in such polls.
Stevenson's deal with Merrill was essentially a prepaid variable forward contract--a "kinky forward, " it's been called.
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Think any differently about Stanford White's architecture because he had kinky tastes in Broadway babies?
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Mr. KINKY FRIEDMAN (Running for governor of Texas): I think the whole state's ready for a non-politician.
British adaptations of Roald Dahl's Matilda and 2005 film Kinky Boots also broke the million dollar barrier.
But when it comes to traditional polls, Kinky's projected to capture less than 10 percent of the Texas vote.
Some of this is due to prosperity, but a lot is due to our kinky tax system, which rewards financial engineering.
"Look, they don't break your balls that much here, " Lauper said of the experience of composing "Kinky Boots, " her debut musical.
The Bush guest list has included country singer Larry Gatlin, pro golfer Ben Crenshaw, Michigan Gov. John Engler and songwriter Kinky Friedman.
Mr Bryan looks for inspiration to Texas, where Kinky Friedman, a musician and mystery-writer, is also running for governor as an independent.
Kenneth Ziskin, the Studio City lawyer, is pushing this kinky scheme, often to clients who want to pass down a family compound to multiple generations.
Princess Margaret (who disports herself with two men in the Caribbean), the black-power advocate Michael X, and various kinky upper-class swells are among the players.
We also get the sequel, in the aftermath of World War I, in the form of kinky, carefully wrought "New Objectivity" paintings from the 1920s.
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The next governor of the great state of Texas: Kinky Friedman.
" Harvey Fierstein, the Tony-nominated book writer for "Kinky Boots.
" Elsewhere on Broadway, Cinderella may have her expensive slippers, but it's likely she'd really love to snag a pair of what's on offer at "Kinky Boots.
Professor Buchanan explains that these 2006 Democrats had no idea their vote for Kinky would cheat themselves of electoral power in 2008, but that's exactly what they did.
What makes this all surreal is that Clinton has President Bush and novelist, song writer, and erstwhile candidate for Texas governor, Kinky Friedman to thank - or blame.
The "Kinky Boots" haul did not match the record number of nominations for a musical, which is 15, set by "The Producers" in 2001 and "Billy Elliot" in 2009.
At "Kinky Boots, " the dancing is done by factory workers, who would be out of character breaking into fancy footwork, and drag queens in six-inch stilettos, which aren't designed for pirouettes.
Both "Kinky Boots" and "Matilda" will compete for the best musical prize with the acrobatic "Bring It On: The Musical" and "A Christmas Story, The Musical, " adapted from the beloved holiday movie.
I'm not entirely sure what happened in 2006, but the fact that there were two independents running, Kinky being one, most likely did have some impact on, you know, the democratic counts in those districts.
Mildly, disaffected Democrats, who knew their candidate for governor in 2006 had no chance, and so they voted for Kinky Friedman simply because they like the cut of his jib or were just having fun.
As the Grammy Award winner began work on the exuberant "Kinky Boots, " it took her back to her childhood, where she was likely to be found listening endlessly to cast albums on a record player.
"Kinky Boots, " which opens April 4, is based on an obscure 2005 British film about a British shoe factory on the brink of ruin that retrofits itself into a maker of fetishistic footwear for drag queens.
Curly, kinky and braided hair is not.
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Among the flurry of nominations, "Kinky Boots" also earned Fierstein a nod for best book, David Rockwell got one for sets, Jerry Mitchell for both directing and for choreography, and nominations for its two leading men, Billy Porter and Stark Sands.
Mr. EVAN SMITH (Editor, Texas Monthly Magazine): And many of the people voting for Kinky are people who have never voted before because they don't like to play in the traditional game of politics, or they're young people who'll be voting for the first time.
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