Today we are turning back the clock to this very day in 2008 when BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICAL opened on Broadway.
Shine "I can't really explain it, I haven't got the words / It's a feeling that you can't control," The title character in Elton John and Lee Hall's international musical sensation BILLY ELLIOT sings in the pivotal dramatic showstopper "Electricity". So goes the unique and impressive trajectory of the story of a North English son of a miner in 1984 Margaret Thatcher-ruled Great Britain who discovered a preternatural ability to excel in ballet and proceeds to audition for the Royal Academy Of Dance against his macho father's wishes that was first told in Stephen Daldry's acclaimed 2000 independent film hit of the same name, written by Lee Hall, and soon thereafter transformed into a masterful stage musical outfitted with book and lyrics by the original screenwriter, direction by the original film helmer and music by none other than rock and theatre royalty, Elton John. Just as with Billy's understanding of dance and the electrical force it inspires in his spirit, so goes the experiences of many theatergoers who witness BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICAL for the very first time - or the umpteenth.
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