Shows · Billy Elliot
Billy Elliot
Opened 2008
1,312 performances
Musical, Modern
Tony Award for Best Musical, 2009
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.
"BILLY ELLIOT: Based on the Universal Pictures/Studio Canal Film": the show's own period marketing line.
- Music
- Elton John
- Lyrics
- Lee Hall
- Book
- Lee Hall
Productions3 productions: 1 on Broadway, 2 in the West End
Recordings 3 recordings
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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