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Todrick Hall Steps Into the Heels of Lola for Kinky Boots

The Straight Outta Oz singer and performer will return to Broadway for the musical by Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein.

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Your favorite Disney-singing, Oz-loving YouTube darling will be returning to Broadway this fall.

Todrick Hall announced he would be strutting the stage as Lola in Kinky Boots beginning Nov. 1. Hall released a video Tuesday of him stomping the sidewalk in the signature red boots to announce the new role.

Hall is touring this summer for Straight Outta Oz, a visual album of original songs that has about 1.8 million views on YouTube.

Related: Tearing Down the Wizard's Curtain with Todrick Hall

Hall appeared on Broadway in 2005 for The Color Purple and again in 2009 for Memphis.

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