Billy Elliot the Forum

Well, the ninth and final Aussie Billy made his debut for the matinee of Saturday 25th April 2009, and reading the reviews his performance went down a storm! Well done Daniel, and good luck in your run!

Gavroche has given us an excellent review in the Reviews thread. Thank you, Gavroche.

It looks like another Aussie will be playing Billy in the US!

Congratulations to our own Daniel Russell who is now rehearsing the role of Billy Elliot in NYC for the upcoming USA National Tour!

http://twitter.com/dancinmates

Welcome to America Daniel!!!

I am so pleased to hear this as I always believed he deserved another chance


On my billyelliot the musical video page, I put together a composite 5 minute video of elliotfan1
videos from the Melbourne season.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2 ... 2968535338

The twitter if from the dance school that his parents run in northern beaches, NSW

Elsewhere on the forum there was comment of Dayton and Michael doing a Billy Michael duo. Imagine if now we have Dayton, Michael with Daniel as tallboy.
Id jump on a plane tomorrow for the 24 hour flight just to see that.

Let me think-----------------
A380 flight to LAX 14 hours plus 3 hour stopover, 5 hours to JFK Except for the cost not that daunting.
But there is coming home to consider.
Ill wait for more info on Daniel

I just went to the school site that Daniels parents own.Wow has he got great lineage.
No wonder he is such a ball of fire

http://www.dancinmates.esmartdesign.com/

on the left side click on directors

My favourite Billy!!!! So glad to hear this. Congrats, Daniel!!!

Daniel just made his debut in Durham at the matinee and he was wonderful!!! No signs of nerves and he worked really well with the entire cast. I thought his acting was particularly strong with great facial expressions and good timing. Very sweet singing voice and (of course) good dancing.
Will post full reviews of my little Billython in Durham later this week but thought it was worth highlighting Daniel's great debut performance!
LPOZ

Congratulations Daniel.

That's fantastic news that Daniel has made his debut on the tour. I have been checking the forum every day to see when he would start so well done Daniel. Hopefully the first of many shows in the US.