My Broadway Review

Billy Elliot- the musical based on the movie of same name that was released in 2000, will play the preview at Broadway in the Imperial Theater on September 17th. This play has won the Olivier award for Best Musical and has music by Elton John and Lee Hall. The official opening of this enthusiastically awaited musical will happen on October 16th, again at the Imperial. This musical drama created an impression in London. Elton John has done matured writing for this musical and the compositions are enthralling. The director of the movie Billy Elliot, Stephen Daldry, has done the direction of this play as well.

The tale is about a working-class boy who wishes to become a ballet dancer and the problems and obstacles faced by him in reaching his goal. Billy Elliot has choreography done by Peter Darling and he won the Best Theater Choreographer award for his work in this play. Scene design is done very artistically by Ian McNeil and costume designs by Nicky Gillibrand. The producers of this musical are Universal Pictures, Working Title and Old Vic pictures along with Tim Bevan, Sally Greene, Jon Finn and Eric Fellner. The title role is alternately done by three boys namely, James Lomas, George Maguire and Liam Mower and they shared the Best Actor in a musical award.