Billy Elliot the Forum

He will be appearing as Older Billy in both shows (7.30pm on the 10th, and 3.00pm on the 11th), as well as give two classes to kids on Saturday morning, Feb 11.

Remember this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZjIflcAE24

With these performances at Wheelock Family Theatre, Ben will have the distinction of playing Tall Boy, Michael, Billy, and Older Billy in a professional production of BETM. Wow!

This is going to be quite a week for Ben. Tonight and tomorrow teaching master classes at the Wheelock Family Theatre and appearing as Older Billy. Wednesday his episode of Law and Order SVU airs. Here's a brief trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ_WcXKFrtk

To cap it off, Thursday Newsies Live will play in movie theaters. Ben's dad took this photo of Ben with a Newsies poster at a theater in Boston, prior to him taking the stage as Older Billy.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... 302&type=3

Ben posted these photos on his Instagram, one of him as Older Billy, dancing with Seth in Dream Ballet. The other is from the class he taught at Wheelock Family Theatre this weekend.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BQZHTJzjsDa ... ntylercook
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQYh4PWDuEO ... ntylercook

It was truly a pleasure to see Ben play Older Billy at Wheelock.

Ben, along with some of his costars from Newsies, will be teaching a Broadway Musical Intensive in Santa Cruz, August 7-11th.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/broadway-m ... exshreclip

https://twitter.com/bentylercook/status ... 2785563649

Ben has been cast in the ensemble of the Broadway-bound Mean Girls musical, which begins performances October 31 at Washington, D.C's National Theatre.

http://www.playbill.com/article/mean-gi ... -announced

Ben will take part in the Broadway Collective Master Class. Dates are as follow:


2018 MASTER CLASS DATES: Greenville, SC (January 13th), Atlanta, GA (January 14th), Little Rock, AK (January 20th), Memphis, TN (January 21st), Orlando, FL (January 27th), Austin, TX (January 28th), Salt Lake City, UT (February 3rd), Phoenix, AZ (February 4th), Las Vegas, NV (February 10th), San Jose, CA (February 11th), Philadelphia, PA (February 17th), Baltimore, MD (February 18th), Wichita, KS (February 24th), Kansas City, KS (February 25th), Seattle, WA (March 3rd), Los Angeles, CA (March 4th).

Sydney Morton played Esmeralda in Ogunquit Playhouse's Hunchback of Notre Dame.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/philadelp ... r-20171121

Ben will take part in the Broadway Ensembles panel next week at BroadwayCon on Friday, January 26 at noon. This article shows us his latest photo and some of the topics to be discussed.

Ben's stats are remarkable for actors of any age, but particularly for someone so young!

Number of Broadway Shows: 4
Number of Original Broadway Companies: 2
Years His Broadway Career Spans: 9

http://www.theensemblist.com/blog/2018/ ... ign=buffer

Ben appears in the upcoming HBO film "PATERNO", starring Al Pacino in the title role. Ben plays Aaron Fisher, one of the students reportedly abused by Jerry Sandusky. There is just a brief glimpse of Ben in this teaser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc6j1IAK19k

Here is the cast list on IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2388986/ful ... t_ov_st_sm