The four young actors who will share the title role in the eagerly awaited new national tour and West End season of Billy Elliot the Musical have been unveiled.
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Launch and West End dates for new Billy Elliot tour
Universal Theatrical Group and Working Title Films have confirmed the launch dates for the eagerly awaited new national tour and West End season of the original award-winning production of Billy Elliot the Musical.
Billy Elliot producers launch search for new generation of child stars
The producers of the original production of Billy Elliot the Musical have launched a nationwide search for children to play the roles of Billy, Michael and Debbie in a new run of the multi-award-winning show.
Billy Elliot the Musical – Milton Keynes Theatre
Billy Elliot the Musical continues at the Milton Keynes Theatre until 17 June. The show’s next dates are at the Theater am Grossmarkt, Hamburg, Germany from 29 June to 23 July. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Milton Keynes Theatre is made for Billy Elliot. With its huge width and deep recesses, […]
Remembering Ann Emery, stalwart performer on TV’s Rentaghost and onstage as Grandma in Billy Elliot
Remembering ANN EMERY (12 March 1930 to 29 September 2016), stalwart performer on TV’s Rentaghost and on stage as Grandma in Billy Elliot, plus many other shows. Born in London in 1930, actress Ann Emery was the half sister of comedy actor Dick Emery. Ann mainly worked on television and in stage musicals, her most celebrated appearances being on […]
Ann Emery – Billy Elliot’s original Grandma – dies at 86
Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry has led the tributes to the much-loved actress Ann Emery who has died at the age of 86. A veteran stage and screen actress who began her career as a child actor with a talent for tap dancing in a production of Babes in the Wood at the Lyric Hammersmith, […]
Wicked film gets Christmas 2019 release date
The long-awaited big screen version of multi award-winning musical Wicked is finally going into production but audiences will have to wait until 2019 to see it. Announcing a 20 December 2019 release date for the movie, film studios Universal also confirmed Britain’s Stephen Daldry would direct with one of the Broadway production’s original producers, Marc […]
Billy Elliot the Musical – Alhambra Theatre, Bradford and Touring
Billy Elliot the Musical continues at the Alhambra Theatre, Bradford until 11 June and tours until 29 April 2017. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Billy Elliot the Musical lives or dies by the performance of a very young male lead. Joyously, there need be few misgivings about Matthew Lyons, the Billy on […]
Billy Elliot the Musical – West End production bids farewell
This weekend, after 4,600 performances and prior to the theatre’s previously announced refurbishment programme, the final Victoria Palace Theatre performance of Billy Elliot the Musical took place in front of a packed house with guests including past and present Billy Elliots, original cast members and members of the show’s creative team. The 1,530-strong audience rose to their […]
Billy Elliot final West End performance is in support of East Durham Trust
The final London performance of Billy Elliot the Musical will be a fundraiser for a charity based in the former mining town that provides the setting for the tale of the dancing schoolboy. A flagship voluntary and community sector organisation, the East Durham Trust is a charity based in Easington, Co. Durham, set up to […]
Billy Elliot the Musical – new Billys cast for first ever UK and Ireland tour
The producers of the multi award-winning Billy Elliot the Musical have confirmed the names of the four boys who will share the title role in the hit show’s first ever tour of the UK and Ireland. Twelve-year-old Adam Abbou; 11-year-old Matthew Lyons; 11-year-old Haydn May and 12-year-old Lewis Smallman were cast following nationwide auditions. The […]
Billy Elliot the Musical bows out of Victoria Palace in April 2016 after 11 years
Due to the Victoria Palace Theatre’s previously announced refurbishment programme, the multi award-winning West End production of Billy Elliot the Musical will play its final performance (of 4,600 at the venue) on 9 April 2016 as the production celebrates its 11th birthday. In June this year tickets went on sale for the first UK and Ireland tour of Billy Elliot the Musical, opening at the Theatre Royal Plymouth […]
Billy Elliot – full dates for UK and Ireland tour revealed
The hit musical Billy Elliot will begin its first ever UK and Ireland tour at Plymouth’s Theatre Royal on 24 February 2016. Billy Elliot the Musical will remain at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth until April 2016 before moving into the Sunderland Empire (6–30 April) followed by the Bradford Alhambra (10 May–11 June); Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff […]
Billy Elliot extends West End run and announces UK tour
Tonight, 12 May 2015, the multi award-winning smash hit Billy Elliot the Musical celebrates ten years in the West End. The musical received its world premiere at the Victoria Palace Theatre in March 2005 with the gala opening night taking place exactly ten years ago today. To coincide with the tenth birthday celebrations, Billy Elliot the Musical today announces an extension to the West […]
Ten years of Billy Elliot the Musical in photos
Today (12 May 2015) Billy Elliot the Musical celebrates ten years in the West End. The musical received its world premiere at the Victoria Palace Theatre in March 2005 with opening night on 12 May 2005 and has now been seen by more than ten million people worldwide, including five million at its London home. Take a look at ‘Ten Years of […]
Billy Elliot the Musical Live – review of DVD and Blu-ray release
Cinema screenings and DVDs related to theatrical productions have become a lot more common in recent years which can only be a bonus for the industry and enthusiasts who want to relive an experience or don’t have the budget to see everything they want to. In the early stages of watching new release Billy Elliot […]
Billy Elliot the Musical Live – more screenings to come
This weekend saw a record-breaking 25 former and current Billy Elliots come together on stage in a specially choreographed mash-up finale of Billy Elliot the Musical. At a unique performance, broadcast live to eight countries from the show’s West End home at the Victoria Palace Theatre, all three original Billy Elliots – James Lomas, George Maguire and Liam Mower – took part in […]
27 Billy Eliots unite for Billy Elliot the Musical Live on 28 September
Twenty-seven former and current Billy Elliots will unite on stage in a specially choreographed mash-up finale on Sunday 28 September when Billy Elliot the Musical is broadcast live from the Victoria Palace Theatre to cinemas across the UK and around the world. All three original Billy Elliots – James Lomas, George Maguire and Liam Mower – will take part in the […]
Original Billy Elliot Liam Mower makes his return
On Sunday 28 September at 2pm, Liam Mower will join the cast of Billy Elliot the Musical for a special performance to be broadcast live from the Victoria Palace Theatre to cinemas across the UK and around the world. Mower, who will play the role of Older Billy, originated the role of Billy Elliot in 2005 along with George […]
Ollie Jochim is 38th lead in Billy Elliot the Musical
This week 12-year-old Ollie Jochim from Chelmsford, Essex gives his first performance in the title role of the award-winning Billy Elliot the Musical. Ollie joins a cast lead by Ruthie Henshall who plays Mrs Wilkinson, Billy’s dance teacher, and becomes the 38th boy to perform the role at the Victoria Palace Theatre and the 75th boy to perform the role worldwide. More […]
Billy Elliot the Musical to be broadcast from cinema
On Sunday 28 September 2014, Billy Elliot the Musical will be broadcast live from the West End to cinemas across the UK and around the world. Based on the Academy Award-nominated film, Billy Elliot the Musical has been entertaining London’s theatergoers at the Victoria Palace Theatre since 2005, and has transferred around the world, winning more than 80 theatre awards globally including […]
Ruthie Henshall joins Billy Elliot the Musical cast
Olivier Award-winning actress Ruthie Henshall is to join the cast of Billy Elliot the Musical to play Billy’s dance teacher Mrs Wilkinson. Henshall’s first performance will be on 12 May 2014, nine years to the day since the show officially opened at the Victoria Palace Theatre. The musical, which has now been seen by more […]
Billy Elliot – Victoria Palace Theatre
Billy Elliot continues at the Victoria Palace Theatre, London. Nine years on, five Olivier Awards and ten Tony Awards later, Billy Elliot is still the electrifying experience it was when first labelled ‘Best Musical in Town’. Then, Billy had everything, and having crossed Atlantic and Pacific, it still has now. Elton John, that master of […]
