Nick Rashad Burroughs: Kinky Boots, Ike Turner, and a Lortel for Goddess

Lortel Award winner Nick Rashad Burroughs joins Matty to talk about going from a Birmingham, Alabama house where gospel was the only music allowed to a Broadway career built on total reinvention.

Nick gets honest about booking Kinky Boots out of college while still in the closet, what it meant to play a woman on Broadway before he had ever let himself be seen as a gay man, the typecasting that followed, and how Goddess at The Public finally let him be nobody but himself. He also talks about his mom's legendary notes, the night Cats: The Jellicle Ball was invented in his living room, playing David Ruffin at The Muny, and why he thinks Broadway needs to bring the spectacle back.

Plus a rapid fire round covering WWE, Beyoncé, Keke Palmer, and one very unexpected athletic credential.

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