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Hi, Does anyone know if Josh Strickland is due to take any Holiday from the Broadway production of Tarzan soon? Thx WEF2

Congratulations to James Lomas, who has won the much coveted Variety Club outstanding new talent award!!! The award is much deserved and recognises his both his achievements and his unquestionable talent. Well done.

Typical! The powers that be refuse to listen to reason re releasing three versions of the OCR, 1 for each of the boys, but yet again manage to peddle Elton's recordings of the same three songs for the umpteenth time! I seem to remember an interview Elton gave some time ago saying how he had recorded a whole load of songs for Billy, that never actually made it into the show. Would it not have made the the whole special edition release a little more tempting if we had a few of the "other" songs...

Hi All, A long shot here, but a friend of mine and fellow board member "Electricity" has organised a group trip to see Billy tonight Thursday 20th October 2005. He has 2 spare tickets in the Dress Circle seats J29 & 30 going for £40.00 each. If anyone is interested please PM me as soon as possible.

Haydn is generally the last to leave, and can take some time to appear. However, that said, when she does come out she is both very pleasant and very engaging. On the night we saw her she was in no rush to end the conversation and was very happy to talk openly about the show.

Thank you to those of you who participated in yesterdays quick quiz. The answers to the quiz were as follows: 1) Herbert Morrison. 2) A Sausage Roll 3) Smash Hits - Christmas Special. 4) A chemistry set. 5) A Miners Lamp. I just thought it was a good way of adding a little light hearted fun to the board. Hope you all enjoyed it!

I guess there is no point in reasoning with certain contributors to this board! Musicals Fan - It seems pretty clear to me that you are intent on stirring things up with express intention of upsetting other board members. Is that really necessary? No one has ever said it was wrong to either like or dislike any one individual performer in the show, and if you happen to prefer Liam over the other boys then fine - no problem! However, that doesn't mean that just because others here may not neces...

Hi All, After a rather boring day at work, I thought I would try and brighten up this Thursday evening with a little "Billy" quiz It's a simple quiz, and one I know ALL of you will know the answers to Here goes: 1) In the "Pathe" news bulletin at the start of the show, one of the popular attractions at the annual Durham Miners rally was who? 2) What has Grandma hidden on the landing? 3) What is the 4th item Billy pulls out of the Bag as one of his "Special Things"? 4) What does Michael swap f...

Like many of you here, I have had the good fortune to see George, James, Liam, Leon performing in the show, and in my opinion each one of them is absolutely bloody fantastic! Sure, everyone will have there favourite Billy, Michael and Debbie etc. but we should never underestimate how talented ALL of these kids are. Musicals Fan - I have no problem with you expressing your preferences, but is it really necessary to be blatantly unkind about the others boys? What have they ever done to you? Thi...

Point taken "Maestro" and indeed it would seem almost impossible to think that three recordings of the same show would be produced. However, Billy is rather unique in as far as very reliable sources have confirmed that 3 recordings have been made with each of the original 3 Billy's. As for Les Mis, yes who could forget that show - 20 years young on Saturday and still going strong!

Hi All, Well I've been away for a few days visitng family in Newcastle, and have only just caught up with all of the posts! Whilst it has been great to catch up with all the news, I am somewhat dissapointed that some of the posts have become somewhat inflamitory and personal in content. This is a great board, and one where everybody is welcome to share and express their views and opinions on the show. Lets' keep it that way please! Electricity - I fully support the 3 cast album campaign and h...

Wow! Liam on as Michael, that would have been interesting to see. Anyway, hope all of the kids are OK.

Hi All, Just a quick house keeping note re day seats. On information given yesterday, whilst in the queue for day seats, it would appear that the daily allocation of seats available has been reduced from 48 to 28. Now, I'm not entirely sure if this applies to Saturday performances or even during school holidays, but it does apply during the week. On checking with the Box office it would appear that all of the row A seats on the right hand side of the auditorium are still available, as are the...

Hi All, I thought you might appreciate my review of last nights show. As with Saturday evening, Stephen Daldry took to the stage ahead of the show to firstly welcome everyone to the theatre, and then to tell us that whilst every night is like a first night in the theatre, tonight was indeed such an occasion for a number of the children including Joey and Leon. He then kindly requested that as the children would have enough to think about, would everyone please ensure that their mobile phones ...

Well, I've just arrived home from tonight's show and all I can say is boy what a show!!! In the finest of the West End traditions, the boys were given the best send off possible, and I'm sure there wasn't a dry eye in the house by the end of the performance both on and off stage. Will we miss these guys...? Of course we will! But I really believe that we haven't seen the last of James Lomas and Ashley Lloyd. These guy's showed a maturity and depth of charachter tonight that proved just how th...

I agree completely with BillyFan2 re tomorrow! I'm in the Dress Circle row D, so remember guys to give us a wave

I for one will definately be there on Saturday evening and hopefully again on Monday. Don't tell my Bank manager though! Anyone else?

Hi All, Is anyone able to provide us with a list of the names of the ballet girls who are leaving the show this week? I think it would be nice if they got a special mention here.

Thanks to all of you for sharing the links to the items on Leon and Joey. Alan, I think your letter to the Evening Standard hits the spot quite nicely!

Well I guess it's great to know that songs from "Billy" are being performed on the high seas. Did they also do "I am sailing" from the last resident production at the Victoria Palace? Anyway, I hope you are having a great time Electricity and it's a shame you won't be with us on Saturday! I would also like to echo the sentiments expressed by Pegasus re the other members of the Ballet chorus who are also leaving the show on Saturday. Just a quick roll call of those going this Saturday evening....