'Saturday Church' Off Broadway Review: 'Kinky Boots' Now Has a Younger, Flashier Brother

"Saturday Church wears its uptown ambitions on very glittering, sparkling, extravagant sleeves. It's a new musical that owes a lot - perhaps too much for its own good - to Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein's "Kinky Boots." Flashy boots are also central to the story of "Saturday Church," which had its world premiere last week at the New York Theatre Workshop. An in-the-closet gay teenager, Ulysses (Bryson Battle) finds love, identity and family not in the conventional Sunday church that he and his homophobic aunt (Joaquina Kalukango) attend but rather the Saturday Church, a . . .