BILLY ELLIOT Opens Next Week at Wheelock Family Theatre!

BILLY ELLIOT runs January 27th - February 26th at Wheelock Family Theatre.

About the Production

Based on the 2000 film Billy Elliot, the plot revolves around young Billy, whose preference for ballet shoes over boxing gloves challenges his father's and brother's conventional ideas of boyhood. Billy's personal struggle for fulfillment is counter-balanced with a family, broken-hearted from his mum's passing, and a community suffering from the UK miners' strike in 1984-5. The musical premiered in London's West End in 2005 and moved to Broadway in 2008, where it won 10 Drama Desk Awards and 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

Book & lyrics by Lee Hall. Music by Elton John. Originally directed in London by Stephen Daldry. Orchestrations by Martin Koch. Executive Producers (Original London Production) Angela Morrison & David Furnish. Producers (Original London Production): Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jon Finn, & Sally Greene. Originally presented in London by Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Working Title Films, Old Vic Productions in association with Tiger Productions. Based on the Universal Pictures/ Studio Canal Film.
Friday nights at 7:30pm; Saturday & Sunday matinees at 3:00pm The performance runs 3 hours with a 15 minute intermission. The story is recommended for adults, teens, 'tweens, youth, and children 8+.

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WFT's award-winning creative team includes Susan Kosoff (Director), Jon Goldberg (Musical Director), Laurel Conrad (Choreographer), Matthew Lazure (Set Design), Frank Meissner, Jr. (Lighting Design), Melissa Miller (Costume Design),
Eric Norris (Sound Design) and Marge Lusignan (Properties).

Susan Kosoff is a theatre director, playwright, author, and professor emerita at Wheelock College, where she teaches for the Center for International Programs and Partnerships. She is a founder of the Wheelock Family Theatre, and takes pride in its reputation for ground-breaking work in nontraditional casting, Arts Access, and theatre education. Ms. Kosoff's plays have been performed on stages around the country. Her most recent publication is the two-volume set, The Young Actor's Book of Improvisation: Dramatic Situations from Shakespeare to Spielberg, co-written with Sandra Caruso. She serves on the boards of StageSource, Cape Cod Theatre Company, and Wheelock Family Theatre. This production of Billy Elliot is dedicated to everyone whose life has been saved by the arts.

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