Leah Hocking was in the original Broadway cast of “Billy Elliot” as Billy’s late mother. At the same time, she was understudy to the female lead, Mrs. Wilkinson, and received a Tony nomination as Best ...
I spent a semester studying in London in the winter of 1985, and one of the first concerts I attended was a benefit at Brixton Academy for the striking coal miners, featuring Aztec Camera and ...
In the film Billy Elliot, the son of a striking miner in the north east of England in 1985 is seen to face prejudice because he wants to be a ballet dancer. When it hit cinemas in 2000, Billy's ...
Paramount Theatre’s production of “Billy Elliot The Musical” is a spectacle in every sense of the word: From set designer Michelle Lilly’s magnificently forbidding mine shaft, whose murky interior ...
Britain's Got Talent might have found the next Billy Elliot in 14-year-old Jack Higgins. The dancer - who appears on tonight's show with a routine set to the song 'Say Something' - attends a ...
Billy Elliot the Musical will search for children to play the roles of Billy, Michael and Debbie in a forthcoming run of the ...