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Disney Roles. Hucua Kingdom of the Sun ; Deleted character. Harvey Fierstein behind the scenes of Mulan. Harvey Fierstein speaks onstage at the 68th annual Tony Awards in June Of course, it's not just the tenor of the one-time soprano's voice that has allowed Harvey Fierstein to be heard so loudly and clearly. It's the messages that he delivers. His script for "Kinky Boots" has earned him his latest Tony nomination. It's based on a true story and adapted from a British film.

In a nutshell: Boy meets girl. Fierstein focused on the relationship between Charlie, the down-on-his-luck shoe manufacturer, and Lola, the over-the-top transvestite. They help each other and they complement each other. Fierstein isn't in "Kinky Boots," but his footprints are all over it.

He started a collaboration with pop star Cyndi Lauper, who wrote the music for the show, even though she had never written anything for Broadway before.

Now she's up for a Tony, too. I left stuff on [his] answering machine all the time. I sang to him all the time. But all I could hear was the hair dryer. You were gettin' your hair done. And you were singing something to me.

The work paid off. And if Fierstein wins a Tony this year, it will be his fifth. Complete CBSNews. He's won in every major category, starting in when he won two, for writing and acting in "Torch Song Trilogy," his masterpiece about the complicated life and loves of a familiar Fierstein favorite, a transvestite.

Critics said "Torch Song Trilogy" had the first gay character who was portrayed as something more than a silly, mincing stereotype. Obviously, I'm part of it. Because I know when I went on 'The Tonight Show' and talked about being gay with Johnny Carson, he didn't seem to know a lot of other people that had done that before.

The next year, he won for writing "La Cage Aux Folles," the wildly successful story of two gay men facing a crisis in their relationship. The reaction to the show seemed to surprise him. He told The New York Times in , "It's still quite extraordinary to realize that all those people from Westchester are cheering wildly for two gay men on stage.

His fourth Tony was for what was perhaps his best-known Broadway role and, once again, he played it in a dress: Edna Turnblad, the overstuffed and slightly overbearing female lead in "Hairspray.