Billy Elliot
Shows · Billy Elliot
In a northern English mining town during the 1984 miners' strike, eleven-year-old Billy Elliot discovers a passion for ballet when he stumbles into a class held in the same hall as his boxing lessons. Despite fierce opposition from his working-class father and brother, Billy pursues his dream with the support of his tough-love teacher Mrs. Wilkinson, ultimately earning a place at the Royal Ballet School.
- Opened
- 2008
- Performances
- 1,312
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Modern
Won the Tony Award for Best Musical, 2009.
Productions3 on Broadway
| 2006 | Transfer Theatre unknown. · predates this show | |
| 2008 | Imperial Theatre Original. November 13, 2008 · Stephen Daldry | 1,312 performances |
| 2010 | Transfer Theatre unknown. November 24, 2014 |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 3 albums held
Licensing not confirmed
| Rights | Not confirmed We have not been able to confirm the publisher. |
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38 passages naming Billy Elliot, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
2009: Ruined; Black Watch (F); Billy Elliot The Musical (M) book:theatre-world-2009-2010-season-v-66-willis#p433
Billy Elliot The Musical* 644 performances Opened November 13, 2008 book:theatre-world-2009-2010-season-v-66-willis#p460
2009: Billy Elliot The Musical; Billy Elliot The Musical was nominated for Outstanding Revival of a Play at the Drama Desk Awards in 2010. book:theatre-world-2011-12-season-v-68-willis#p428
Billy Elliot The Musical 1,312 performances Opened November 13, 2008 Closed January 8, 2012 book:theatre-world-2011-12-season-v-68-willis#p455
COMPETETION Winner: Billy Elliot, First Runner-up: Mary Poppins book:theatre-world-2011-12-season-v-68-willis#p120
Each of the seventy-eight shows that played at a Broadway theatre under a Broadway contract during that time are profiled in this edition. That includes new shows that opened during that time, like Billy Elliot; shows from seasons past that closed during this sea-son, like Rent; and shows from seasons past that ran thr… book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-2008-may-2009-fifth-robert-viagas-5th-annual#p8
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