Shows with a character named Billy
Shows with a character named Billy
jasobres
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/9/05
#0Shows with a character named Billy
Posted: 7/1/05 at 4:05pm
Has anyone ever noticed that there are a large amount of shows that have a character named "Billy" in them?
For example, there's Billy Crocker in Anything Goes, Billy Flynn in Chicago, Billy Lawlor in 42nd Street, and Billy Bigelow in Carousel. Can anyone think of any others?
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#1re: Shows with a character named Billy
Posted: 7/1/05 at 4:06pm
BILLY ELLIOT ... duh 
RIP glebby <3
jasobres
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/9/05
#3re: Shows with a character named Billy
Posted: 7/1/05 at 4:11pmI said characters! Billy Crystal is a real person.
"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!"
- Jimmy Durante
"Breathe from your hoo-hoo."
-Kristin Chenoweth
apdarcey
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
#4re: Shows with a character named Billy
Posted: 7/1/05 at 4:12pm
but the character he plays in the show is billy crystal.
did you know that the most used character name in movies is jack.
#5re: Shows with a character named Billy
Posted: 7/1/05 at 4:47pmthe London version of Taboo
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#6re: Shows with a character named Billy
Posted: 7/1/05 at 4:49pm
Josh's friend in Big is named Billy.
There was a SHOW named Billy, I believe, wasn't there? WIth Michael Crawford? Or am I just making that up?
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#7re: Shows with a character named Billy
Posted: 7/1/05 at 4:53pmBilly Crystal is a real person? I don't believe a word of it.
#8re: Shows with a character named Billy
Posted: 7/1/05 at 4:55pm
jasobres- i understood your question but Billy Crystal plays himself in 700 Sundays, therefore he is a real person and a character!
Edit- whoops, thanks apdarcey.. i didnt see that you backed me up before
Updated On: 7/1/05 at 04:55 PM
Mills
Swing Joined: 1/19/04
#9re: Shows with a character named Billy
Posted: 7/1/05 at 6:28pm
There is a show called Billy, yes. (I only really know because we did it at school.)
Also, Me and My Girl - Bill.
I'm sure there's more, I've noticed this before, but I've gone blank at the moment.
Beergoggles
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/05
#10re: Shows with a character named Billy
Posted: 7/1/05 at 6:30pm
On Moonlight Bay- Bill
Jesus Loves You... Everybody else thinks you're an idiot!
#11re: Shows with a character named Billy
Posted: 7/1/05 at 7:10pmI don't know if this counts, but Assassins has Bill Mckinley...and of course there's the SONG "Bill" in Showboat, but I don't believe that there's a character with that name in the show...
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
#12re: Shows with a character named Billy
Posted: 7/2/05 at 2:38am
Willie Conklin (Ragtime) - Does that count?
Bill Sykes - (Oliver)
#14re: Shows with a character named Billy
Posted: 7/2/05 at 2:55am
Colonel William F. Cody (Buffolo Bill)-Annie Get Your Gun
Bill Calhoun-Kiss Me Kate
Billy Early-No, No Nanette
Will Parker-Oklahoma
Billy Webster-SITPWG
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Updated On: 7/2/05 at 02:55 AM
#15re: Shows with a character named Billy
Posted: 7/2/05 at 3:16am
Not quite "Billy", but -
Bill Sampson - Applause
#16re: Shows with a character named Billy
Posted: 7/2/05 at 10:45amBilly was a duckling in HONK! (yay for working at a kid's theatre camp! lol)
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badroit
Swing Joined: 6/20/05
#17re: Shows with a character named Billy
Posted: 7/2/05 at 10:52amBilly from BILLY BUDD (the H.Melville stage adaptation).
joeybiltmore1
Leading Actor Joined: 2/22/05
#18re: Shows with a character named Billy
Posted: 7/2/05 at 11:01amThere is a role in "Crazy For You" named Billy.
#19re: Shows with a character named Billy
Posted: 7/2/05 at 11:15am
You asked for it. Here are all the Broadway shows with characters of bill, billy, or billie....
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110 in the Shade
200 Were Chosen
42nd Street
A Bell for Adano
A Girl Can Tell
A Good Woman, Poor Thing
A Play Without a Name
A Saturday Night
A Strong Man's House
A Texas Trilogy: Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander
Adam's Apple
Algeria
Alias Jimmy Valentine
Alibi Bill
Almost an Eagle
An American Daughter
An Enemy of the People
Ankles Aweigh
Anybody's Game
Anything Goes
Applause
Are You Decent
Aries Is Rising
Around the Clock
Assassins
Babes in Arms
Ballroom
Ballyhoo of 1932
Bandanna Land
Barbara's Wedding
Battle Hymn
Behind Red Lights
Best Foot Forward
Between Two Worlds
Big
Big River
Billie
Billy
Billy Budd
Billy the Kid
Black Diamond
Bless You All
Born Yesterday
Brightower
Broadway
Broadway Sho-Window
Broken Dishes
Brooklyn Biarritz
Brother Rat
Brothers
Bubbling Brown Sugar
Bye, Bye, Bonnie
Call Me Mister
Calling All Stars
Carnival
Carousel
Censored
Chicago
Come What May
Compulsion
Copperfield
Courage
Crazy For You
Cross-town
Daphne Laureola
David Harum
Deadfall
Decision
Devour the Snow
Diamond Lil
Dinner is Served
Dream Girl
Du Barry Was a Lady
Dude
Earl Carroll's Sketch Book [1935]
Earl Carroll's Vanities [1932]
Einstein and the Polar Bear
Excess Baggage
Fade Out - Fade In
Fair and Warmer
Father and Son
Father and the Boys
Fickle Women
Finian's Rainbow
Fly By Night
For Love or Money
Forty Carats
Furnished Rooms
Gantry
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Getting Gertie's Garter
Girl Trouble
Goin' Home
Good Men and True
Good Morning Dearie
Good News
Goodbye Fidel
Got Tu Go Disco
Great Lady
H.M.S. Pinafore
Happy End
Harrigan 'n Hart
Hazel Flagg
Hold Your Horses
Hollywood Arms
Honky Tonk Nights
Hope for a Harvest
Houseparty
How Beautiful With Shoes
How to Get Tough About It
Howdy, Mr. Ice
Howie
I Must Love Someone
I, Myself
In Heaven and Earth
Inadmissable Evidence
Indians
Indiscretion
It Happened Tomorrow
It Takes Two
It's a Wise Child
Jason
Jekyll & Hyde
Jezebel
John Henry
Johnny 2 X 4
Jonesy
Jotham Valley
Just to Remind You
Keep It In the Family
Keep Off the Grass
Kibitzer
King of Hearts
Kiss and Tell
Kiss Me, Kate
Late Love
Let George Do It
Letty Pepper
Life Begins at 8:40
Lightnin'
Lola from Berlin
Lolita
Lonesome Town
Lost Boy
Love Dreams
Mail
Major Barbara
Make Mine Manhattan
Mamma Mia!
Marching Song
Me and My Girl
Medicine Show
Mexican Hayride
Mid-Summer
Midgie Purvis
Missouri Legend
Mr. Big
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Murder at the Vanities
My One And Only
Nature's Way
Nice People
No, No, Nanette
Not So Long Ago
Oh, Kay!
Oh, What A Girl!
Oliver Twist
Oliver!
On Golden Pond
On the Town
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Only in America
Orchids Preferred
Over Here!
Paint Your Wagon
Pansy
Peace on Earth
Peter Flies High
Peter Pan
Pipe Dream
Play Memory
Pleasure Man
Point of No Return
Polly
Post Road
Processional
Ramshackle Inn
Red Pepper
Return Engagement
Reunion
Roberta
Robinson Crusoe, Jr.
Sailor, Beware!
Sandhog
Sea Legs
Season in the Sun
Serious Money
Sherlock Holmes
Shimada
Shinbone Alley
Shooting Star
Sign of the Leopard
Sing Out, Sweet Land
Skylark
Snookie
Society and the Bulldog
Something More!
Somewhere Else
South Pacific
Stage Door
Stages
Stars In Your Eyes
Steaming
Steel
Steel Pier
Stevedore
Still Life
Streamers
Strip for Action
Subways Are for Sleeping
Sun Kissed
Sunday in the Park with George
Sweet Smell of Success
Swing It
Tea and Sympathy
That Ferguson Family
The Apple Cart
The Bat
The Belle of Amherst
The Best Man
The Big Fight
The Body Beautiful
The Boy with the Boodle
The Boys of Winter
The Changing Room
The Civil War
The Crooks' Convention
The Day Before Spring
The Entertainer
The Fabulous Invalid
The Fig Leaves Are Falling
The Ghost Writer
The Girl Behind the Counter
The Girl of the Golden West
The Girl Question
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
The Goodbye Girl
The Guys in the Truck
The Happy Husband
The Highest Bidder
The House of Blue Leaves
The K Guy
The Law Breaker
The Law of the Land
The Little Millionaire
The Man Who Killed Lincoln
The Meanest Man in the World
The Night Remembers
The Ninety Day Mistress
The Outpost
The Parson's Bride
The Passing Show of 1921
The Poppy God
The Ragged Edge
The Rainmaker
The Real Thing
The Red Geranium
The Red Mill
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
The Robber Bridegroom
The Skirt
The Solid Gold Cadillac
The Soul Kiss
The Spider
The Squaw Man
The Stolen Story
The Straw
The Strings, My Lord, Are False
The Top o' th' World
The Virginian
The Voice of the Turtle
The Warrens of Virginia
The Yankee Tourist
The-Merry-Go-Round
Tide Rising
Tin Pan Alley
To-Night at 12
Treasure Island
Trial Honeymoon
Two Blocks Away
Under Milk Wood
Ups-a Daisy
Urban Cowboy
Urinetown
Very Warm for May
Voices in the Dark
What a Life
What D' You Call It
What the Wine-Sellers Buy
Whatever Goes Up
Where Do We Go From Here?
Whoop-Up
Wings
Wish You Were Here
Yours Truly
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
#20re: Shows with a character named Billy
Posted: 7/2/05 at 11:20amAnd there were shows that were not on Broadway like "Billy Liar".
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