The one name on everybody's lips is Billy. Billy Elliot: The Musical is the new show that has captured Broadway's heart and received the best reviews for any musical in years. Called "extraordinarily eplifting" by Time Out New York and "intoxicating" by The New York Times, Billy Elliot is a joyous, exciting and feel-good celebration of one boy following his heart and making his dreams come true.
Based on the critically acclaimed feature film, Billy Elliot is brought to life by the movie's original creative team - director Stephen Daldry, choreographer Peter Darling and writer Lee Hall - along with music legend Elton John, who has written what the New York Post calls "HIS BEST SCORE YET!"
The cast features Haydn Gwynne (Olivier Award nomination, London production), Gregory Jbara (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), Carole Shelley (The Elephant Man, Wicked), Santino Fontana (Sunday in the Park with George revival) and, sharing the role of Billy, David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulish.
Come discover for yourself the next great Broadway musical, Billy Elliot.
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A bit long and occasionally repetitive, Billy Elliot makes inventive use of Broadways glitz and gadgets. Elton John assumes the guise of Horatio Alger, reminding us that talent and hard work can overcome adversity. A first rate cast is led by the superlative troika of Gregory Jbara, Haydn Gwynne, and Carole Shelley. Jbara brings an emotional complexity to the role that is apparent when his slumped character first walks onto the stage. Gwynne is a tough as nails teacher who refuses to let her star pupil squander the talent which his community neither recognizes nor values. And Carole Shelley, when not lost in the fog of a most convincing dementia, is the most sympathetic member of the Elliot household. The fourth lead, Margaret Thatcher, never appears on stage. Britains "iron lady" destroyed state-subsidized mines in a little known episode of of globalization. A musical is rarely this political, and its a welcome change in a district bound by convention and dripping in syrup
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