Mr Philip Sell, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham and secretary of the British Association of Spine Surgeons, said operations are carried out to prevent the curvature from becoming worse.

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"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.

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