BILLY ELLIOT -- The Musical

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It's got heart, passion and the best Elton John score ever ! (New York Post)

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Billy Elliot The Musical

is the joyous celebration of one boy’s journey to make his dream come true. 

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Set in a small town, the story follows Billy as he stumbles out of the boxing ring and into a ballet class, discovering a surprising talent that inspires his family, his whole community and ...

changes his life forever!

 

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Based on the Academy Award nominated 2000 film of the same title, Billy Elliot is the story of its namesake star, a young boy in a depressed working-class mining town in the North of England. Set during the history-making 1984 miner’s strike, the show follows Billy, the youngest child of a blue-collar family that has recently lost its Mum.   The show is littered liberally with the sort of bad language you’d expect to find in a blue-collar community during tough times.  
While Billy’s father and brother take to the picket lines of the violent and life-changing strike, Billy secretly begins to study the art of dance with the help of a hard-drinking, chain-smoking local dance teacher. But as Billy blossoms and thrives, the world and lives around him continues to wither—and his only escape may be the prestigious Royal Ballet School, a place no working-class boy has ever gone, or been allowed to go to, before.

 

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The story of Billy Elliot takes place

 

 in the coal fields of Northern England, where mining had

 

 been the major employer for hundreds of years. In 1984

 

more than 300,000 men worked in the mining industry:

 

today there are less than 1,000.  More than 98 percent of the

 

coal used for British energy in now imported from abroad.

 

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