Kinky Boots, a Best Musical winner at the 2013 Tony Awards, is one of themost notable exceptions.

“I was dancing down.

And they wouldn’t stop with that.”

Billy Porter

Billy Porter at the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party wearing a look from designer Christian Siriano.Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagic

FIRST WIVES CLUB, Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, 1996

Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, and Bette Midler wearing white pantsuits in the film The First Wives Club.Everett Collection

THE BROKEN HEARTS CLUB: A ROMANTIC COMEDY, (top l-r): Billy Porter, John Mahoney, Ben Weber, Timothy

Billy Porter (left) in The Broken Hearts Club.Everett Collection

Kinky Boots the Musical

Billy Porter in the musical Kinky Boots.Matthew Murphy

Shuffle Along, or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed

Billy Porter in the Broadway musical Shuffle Along.Julieta Cervantes

Pose

Billy Porter on stage holding a microphone in the TV show Pose.Michael Parmelee/FX

Billy Porter

Billy Porter in Taylor Swift’s “You Need to Calm Down” music video in a red dress and a large poofy hairstyle.Taylor Swift/YouTube

Like a Boss

Billy Porter and Jennifer Coolidge standing behind a sales counter in Like a Boss.Everett Collection

62nd Annual Grammy Awards, Arrivals, Los Angeles, USA - 26 Jan 2020

Billy Porter on the red carpet at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards.Christopher Polk/Rolling Stone/Shutterstock

Twilight Zone

Billy Porter in season 2, episode 3 of The Twilight Zone.Dean Buscher/CBS

CINDERELLA

Kerry Brown/Sony

Rita Moreno, Jane Fonda, Billy Porter, Lily Tomlin, and Sally Field in ‘80 for Brady’

Rita Moreno, Jane Fonda, Billy Porter, Lily Tomlin, and Sally Field in ‘80 for Brady’.Paramount/Everett