BOOTS ON THE GROUND

Tony winner Billy Porter, who recently resumed the role of Lola in the smash musical Kinky Boots—and whose inventive album The Soul of Richard Rodgers (Sony Masterworks Broadway) has earned a raft of raves—poses backstage with Epic EVP/CFO Lynn Hazan and her son Mason. In a related story, a HITS editor described his own footwear as "kinky," when in fact it was strictly orthopedic.