Possible New Billy?

[ERinVA]

CHEEKY Monkey star Charlie Dixon has been selected to take part in training to be a West End star.

Charlie, from Nelson, wowed judges at auditions in Leeds and London to be selected to live in the Billy Elliot house where he could be selected to be the next Billy in the smash hit musical.

http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/ ... _West_End/

Reading on in the article, I see that Charlie is only nine.

[Billy Whiz]

Youtube videos of the Cheeky Monkeys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x0RsFSg5xc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wykeM_ue ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4r02-JY ... re=related

[ERinVA]

I thought I remembered them, and I was right. Good luck to Charlie!

[bubsycm]

Ha! I loved the cheeky monkeys, they were so cute and actually really good. Obviously I don't know what he's like now a year on but thinking of him on BGT I could actually picture him being a Dean style Michael..

[pucka]

I saw him after audition...he is very handsome....

[phoebe]

Is this the Squeeky Monkey kid? The names are different, but the age and face are the same.

William Mitchell wins place at Royal Ballet School
June 30, 2009 – 8:28 pm
Posted in News Story 2009
Tagged Ballet, Boys Ballet, Royal Ballet School
By Richard Catton
The Press
June 27, 2009

http://boysballet.wordpress.com/
This article and photos about half way down.

[ERinVA]

That's a different kid. The article says he is from Yorkshire. According to the article about Charlie Dixon, the Cheeky Monkey kid, he is from Lancashire.

[James.R]

That's a different kid. The article says he is from Yorkshire. According to the article about Charlie Dixon, the Cheeky Monkey kid, he is from Lancashire.

Ehh..and trust us..there's naw mixing Lancashire and Yorkshire!

"By 'ek, Chalk and Cheese lad.....!"

They even fought wars against each other...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_the_roses and still do when it comes to cricket!

[phoebe]

Well, they sure look a lot alike!

[hecouldshine]

I'm not quite sure where we post about future Billys now, but I can report seeing a very promising young man, Rhys, at the Centrepointe (Matthew Koon's dance school) show on Sunday. We were told that he has been training for Billy, and was shortly off to Billy school in London. If anyone is going to the All England dance finals next week, you will see him in a contemporary dance number called Jungle, with 2 girls. I was impressed with his ballet technique in 2 pieces we saw on Sunday. No tap numbers though. Good luck Rhys...