The run closed January 8, 2012
- Opened
- November 13, 2008
- Closed
- January 8, 2012
- Performances
- 1,312
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Imperial Theatre
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 13th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Billy Elliot 2 more that season
| 2006 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2010 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it106 named
Juliette Allen Angelo
Kevin Bernard
David Bologna
Heather Burns
Eboni Edwards
Darrell Grand Moultrie
Meg Guzulescu
Stephen Hanna
Izzy Hanson Johnston
Joel Hatch
Leah Hocking
Keean Johnson
Aaron Kaburick
Stephanie Kurtzuba
David Larsen
Marina Micalizzi
Mitchell Michaliszyn
Matthew Mindler
Tessa Netting
Jayne Paterson
Thommie Retter
Corrieanne Stein
Jamie Torcellini
Grant Turner
Casey Whyland
Erin Whyland
Kate Hennig
Patrick Mulvey
Michael Arnold
Giuseppe Bausilio
Brad Bradley
Trevor Braun
Aly Brier
Jack Broderick
Donna Lynne Champlin
Jacob Clemente
Cameron Clifford
Benjamin Cook
Lilla Crawford
Michael Dameski
Ava Demary
Alex Dreier
Laura Marie Duncan
C K Edwards
Julian Elia
Myles Erlick
J Austin Eyer
Makenzi Rae Fischbach
Eugene Fleming
Seth Fromowitz
Blake Hammond
Joseph Harrington
Kylend Hetherington
David Hibbard
Rick Hilsabeck
Georgi James
Annabelle Kempf
Alex Ko
Austin Lesch
Zachary Maitlin
Maria May
Peter Mazurowski
Neil Mccaffrey
Drew McVety
Brad Nacht
Maddy Novak
Kara Oates
Kerry O’Malley
Ruby Rakos
Liam Redhead
Rachel Resheff
Danny Rutigliano
Jake Evan Schwencke
Nicholas Sipes
Jimmy Smagula
Easton Smith
Amber Stone
Kendra Tate
Dayton Tavares
Holly Taylor
Matt Trent
Luke Trevisan
Kayla Vanderbilt
Christopher Brian Williams
Thad Turner Wilson
Danika Yarosh
Katrina Yaukey
William Youmans
27 of these 106 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 79 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Stephen Daldry
- Choreographer
- Peter Darling
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Recordings 1 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Billy Elliot, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
Billy Elliot: The Musical is a coming-of-age stage musical based on the 2000 film of the same name. The music is by Elton John, and the book and lyrics are by Lee Hall, who wrote the film's screenplay. The plot revolves around Billy Elliot, a motherless British boy who begins taking ballet lessons. The story of his personal struggle and fulfillment is balanced against a counter-story of family and community strife caused by the 1984–1985 miners' strike in County Durham, in North East England. Hall's screenplay was inspired in part by A. J. Cronin's 1935 novel about a miners' strike, The Stars Look Down, to which the musical's opening song pays homage. The musical premiered at the Victoria Pa…
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- 2009: Ruined; Black Watch (F); Billy Elliot The Musical (M) Theatre World 2009 2010 Season V 66 Willis, p. 433
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- 2009: Billy Elliot The Musical; Billy Elliot The Musical was nominated for Outstanding Revival of a Play at the Drama Desk Awards in 2010. Theatre World 2011 12 Season V 68 Willis, p. 428
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- COMPETETION Winner: Billy Elliot, First Runner-up: Mary Poppins Theatre World 2011 12 Season V 68 Willis, p. 120
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- Which of the 1 recordings of Billy Elliot document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.