Billy Elliot: Live! (from the Skiptown Playhouse)
A new twist on Billy Elliot (originally written by Stephen Daldry & Lee Hall) is in production for the Skiptown Playhouse in LA, California. It will feature new dialogue, child actors, and three new numbers with choreography. The show will play through 2025 and rehearsals start 2024. Information about the plot: The life of 11-year-old Billy Elliot, a coal miner's son in Northern England, is forever changed one day when he stumbles upon a ballet class during his weekly boxing lesson. Before long, he finds himself in dance, demonstrating the kind of raw talent seldom seen by the class' exacting instructor, Mrs. Wilkinson. With a tart tongue and a never-ending stream of cigarettes in her hand, Mrs. Wilkinson's zest for teaching is revived when she sees Billy's potential.
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Eleven-year-old Billy is an aspiring ballet dancer who comes from a tough mining community in Northern England. No working-class English man is going to be happy to hear that their son wants to do something stereotypically effeminate, and Billy's widowed father, Jackie, does not approve of his son's interest. But Billy is passionate about dancing—he continues to dance even when strictly forbidden to do so. As he says at the end of his audition for ballet school, dancing is like "electricity."
Michael lives in Billy's neighborhood and is his best friend. Early in the film, Billy sees him dressing up in women's clothing, and later in the film, Michael comes out to him as gay, and as having a crush on Billy. Billy accepts him, and his admission does not hurt their friendship. In fact, Billy takes Michael to the ballet studio, gives him a tutu and shows him how to dance. He is one of Billy's champions and his closest friend.
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