Today, 22 February 2012, 13 year old Harris Beattie from Aberdeen, Scotland and 9 year old Dayna Dixon from Benton, Newcastle upon Tyne will join the West End cast of Billy Elliot the Musical which celebrates 7 years in at the Victoria Palace Theatre in May. Harris will become the twenty-ninth boy to play the title role in the West End and the 64th boy to play the role worldwide, including Jamie Bell who played Billy Elliot in the award-winning film. He is joined by Dayna who plays Debbie, dance teacher Mrs Wilkinson's daughter.
Today, 22 February 2012, 13 year old Harris Beattie from Aberdeen, Scotland and 9 year old Dayna Dixon from Benton, Newcastle upon Tyne will join the West End cast of Billy Elliot the Musical which celebrates 7 years in at the Victoria Palace Theatre in May. Harris will become the twenty-ninth boy to play the title role in the West End and the 64th boy to play the role worldwide, including Jamie Bell who played Billy Elliot in the award-winning film. He is joined by Dayna who plays Debbie, dance teacher Mrs Wilkinson's daughter.
Based on the Oscar nominated film, Billy Elliot the Musical is an inspirational story of one boy's dream to realise his ambitions against the odds. Set in the North East of England against the background of the historic 1984/85 miners' strike, Billy pursues his passion for dance in secret to avoid disapproval of his struggling family.
Today, 12 year old Kaine Ward from Hertfordshire and 9 year old Macy Staisick from Darlington will join the new West End cast of Billy Elliot the Musical which is now in its seventh year at the Victoria Palace Theatre. Kaine will become the twenty-eighth boy to play the title role in the West End and the 62nd boy to play the role worldwide, including Jamie Bell who played Billy Elliot in the award-winning film. He is joined by Macy who plays Dance Teacher Mrs Wilkinson's daughter, Debbie.
On 14 November 2011 Gillian Bevan (Mrs Wilkinson) and Deka Walmsley (Dad) will join the West End production of Billy Elliot the Musical along with Ann Emery who returns to the cast to play Grandma, the role she originated on stage at the Victoria Palace in 2005 and played until 2010.
On 14 November 2011 Gillian Bevan (Mrs Wilkinson) and Deka Walmsley (Dad) will join the West End production of Billy Elliot the Musical along with Ann Emery who returns to the cast to play Grandma, the role she originated on stage at the Victoria Palace in 2005 and played until 2010. They will be joined by new principal cast members Michael Peavoy (Tony), Sean Kearns (George) and Simon Ray Harvey (Mr. Braithwaite).
Performers include Bronte Barbe (BBC's Over the Rainbow), Lucy May Barker (Spring Awakening, Earthquakes in London), Cassidy Janson (Avenue Q, Wicked), Jeremy Legat (Wicked), Gemma Sutton (Oklahoma! National Tour and Imagine This), Michael Peavoy (Hamlet at the National Theatre, Stephen Sondheim Society Young Performer of the Year winner) and Lucy Mills (Austentatious).
Sarah Earnshaw (Wicked), Issy van Randwyck (Anyone Can Whistle, Dirty Dancing, A Little Night
Music, NT, Fascinating Aida), Scott Garnham (Les Miserables, Never Forget, Eurobeat), Joseph Davenport (Pirates of Penzance), Alex McNamara (We Will Rock You, First Lady Suite) and Adam Rhys-Davies (Tick, Tick... Boom! Union) have now joined the line-up of Snappy Title: Dream A Little Dream, showing at the Cochrane Theatre on Sunday September 19th.
Performers include Bronte Barbe (BBC's Over the Rainbow), Lucy May Barker (Spring Awakening, Earthquakes in London), Cassidy Janson (Avenue Q, Wicked), Jeremy Legat (Wicked), Gemma Sutton (Oklahoma! National Tour and Imagine This), Michael Peavoy (Hamlet at the National Theatre, Stephen Sondheim Society Young Performer of the Year winner) and Lucy Mills (Austentatious).
Kirsty Hoiles, who has spent the summer wowing audiences as the young Viv Nicholson in Spend Spend Spend at the Watermill Theatre, has now joined the all-star cast of Snappy Title, (the charity cabaret at Piccadilly's Pigalle Club in aid of MMD and the Actors' Benefit Club.
The Pigalle Club will host the New Musicals Network's official charity launch party and cabaret in aid of Mercury Musical Developments and the Actors' Benevolent Fund.
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