If you’re feeling a bit of the “end of season” blues and are in need of a lift, you could do far worse than taking in the Tony-winning musical Kinky Boots, onstage through Sunday at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall.

The show, based on the 2005 British film of the same name, is blessed by what seems a pretty perfect pairing of collaborators with book writer Harvey Fierstein and music and lyrics writer Cyndi Lauper, who won the Tony her first time out as a Broadway composer. Her songs range effectively from pop rock to disco-tinged to powerful ballads, and the shared sensibilities of Fierstein and Lauper are a great match for the show’s tale.

That tale begins in a brief flashback involving two young boys, Charlie and Simon, both of whom have a connection to…shoes. Charlie is the scion of a longtime shoe factory family based in Northampton; Simon has gender identity issues and loves red heels. Eventually, the adult Charlie (Curt Hansen) and Simon, now a drag queen named Lola (Timothy Ware), meet cute, you could say, when Charlie comes to Lola’s rescue at the hands of a couple of bad boys. Lola can actually take pretty good care of herself, but she and her fellow drag queens, the Angels, do have a problem that Charlie might be able to solve and in so doing save his own business from closing: They need stilettos that can handle a man’s weight, since what’s on the market is designed for lighter women. Ping! There’s an idea.

Of course, there are complications. Not everyone at the factory is keen to welcome Lola as the designer of a new line of “kinky boots.” Charlie’s fiancée Nicola (Katerina Papacostas) wants him to move to London with her and leave Northampton far behind. And another worker at the factory, Lauren (Rose Hemingway), is developing a crush on Charlie, whom she’s known for years but now sees in a new light. Along the way, Charlie and Lola both have to deal with the legacy of their fathers’ expectations for them, to teach themselves and others true acceptance, and to get those boots to Milan in time for a runway show that can make or break the company.

There are a few fairly obvious or expected moments in the script, but Fierstein also delivers some sharp comic lines, and Lauper’s songs—“Sex Is in the Heel,” upbeat Act I closer “Everybody Say Yeah,” the requisite touching ballads for Charlie (“Soul of a Man”) and Lola (“Hold Me In Your Heart”) and the final number, “Raise You Up/Just Be”—also deliver just the emotions called for. Hemingway has fun moments as Lauren (channeling Lauper a bit) as she comically becomes aware of her feelings for Charlie singing “The History of Wrong Guys”; Hansen as Charlie grows on you as the evening progresses and displays some impressive vocals on “Soul of a Man”; and Ware is a compelling Lola, strutting around the stage in wig, short skirt and those stilettos with brio but also believable in quieter moments of self-doubt.

Aaron Walpole as the boorish Don, who undergoes a conversion at Lola’s hands, engages us when he’s onstage, and the Angels execute some sexy dance moves choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, whose direction also makes good use of the factory set design by David Rockwell. With driving support from music director Roberto Sinha and his orchestra, Kinky Boots is a kick.

Several performances are still upcoming; for ticket info call 953-3368 or click here.