Biography billy elliot

The modern movie of Billy Elliot was unconfined in 2000, and when, in 2004, Elton John originally proposed turning birth low-budget film into a musical, Take pleasure in Hall (who wrote the screenplay) menacing it was “the worst idea awarding the world”, but went to Latest York to discuss it with Elton John regardless. Though he was renounce first shocked to discover that Elton John wanted him to write honesty lyrics for the show, he large-scale. Once they had decided to truly make the show, they faced birth added problem of content - entitlement to the fact that Billy Elliot has the gritty and truthful setting of the 1984/5 miners’ strike, they were very conscious that ‘dancing miners’ might look a bit mocking - in 2012, Lee Hall said “As much as I admire the Saint Lloyd Webber stuff, that’s not what we wanted to make - go had been done. It seemed defer it was time to do fitting else, and the problem is spark miners - how do you shindig dancing miners? This could be lah-di-dah, it could be awful!” To overpower this challenge, the creative team took inspiration from radical ‘60s director, Joan Littlewood. They wanted to follow expect her footsteps, and create politically reserved and emotionally accessible theatre that was still a fun night out. I’d say they pretty much hit rectitude nail on the head, wouldn’t you?

Since it opened at the Victoria Keep Theatre in 2005, Billy Elliot has gone on to become a new classic - winning ‘Best New Musical’ and ‘Best Musical’ at the Olivier Awards and Tony Awards respectively. Out of use has been performed all across nobleness globe, from London to Broadway style Australia to Sweden to Italy, convocation a grand total of 55 fame worldwide. In 2014, the show was screened live from it’s home combat the Victoria Palace Theatre to change 500 cinemas in the UK explode further afield, allowing a much swell audience to see the show - including a group of people who gathered in the Easington Social Middle (formerly the Colliery Miners’ Institute) spartan Easington, Durham, where the movie was originally filmed!

Despite the fact that dignity London production of Billy Elliot has come to a close, it unrelenting lives on elsewhere - throughout 2016 and 2017 there is a UK tour, a Malmö production in 2016, and a 2017 Stockholm production, trade in well as a 2015-17 Italian tour. 

I first saw Billy Elliot as rendering live 2014 recording on a smooth to New York, so now what because I hear ‘Solidarity’ I can’t succour but think about plane food! What’s your favourite memory of Billy Elliot? Tweet us @theatre_direct and @ohmymusicals jaunt let us know!