"They are hard workers and obedient employees, " Zeng Xiangbiao, ashoefactory owner in Dongguan, told a Chinese reporter in a familiar refrain on immigrant labor.
"Kinky Boots, " which opens April 4, is based on an obscure 2005 British film about a British shoefactory on the brink of ruin that retrofits itself into a maker of fetishistic footwear for drag queens.