Billy Elliot The Musical — Page 100

I thought Liam was great on cin. He may have missed the sue but he covered it so well. My mate Jess didnt even know he had missed it as she has never seen billy elliot. He was amazing.

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Hey, just browsing this site for any updates on Billy Elliot and came across this about the OCR.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=5980
It says that all 3 billys will be singing on it, so i think thats why the date has been changed because they were probably only planning to have Liam on it but then decided to have all 3 boys. Well thats just my opinion lol
GMFan!! X

wot on earth u goin on bout LM of jeremy or wot ever ur callin urself these days
of corse liam knows the words u idiot
he sings it every nite
he cudnt hear his cue cos of clappin
it happens an he covered it better than the my fair lady woman did later on
jeez

WELL DONE LIAM

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Yesterday I was up in London for the whole day; I had such an early start as I had a radio interview to do on BBC London’s breakfast show! Once this had finished I went over to the Victoria Palace to get some day seats for a particular show! I was absolutely amazed that I was 5th in line at 7:30 in the morning! This queue seems to start earlier and earlier!

It was good meeting up with a few people from this board, you know who you are

Firstly the matinee performance… We had Leon and Joey playing “Billy” and “Michael”. These two are brilliant, I can’t really add to much more on what I’ve already said in past posts but I do hope that they still with the show for as long as possible.
We also had Daniel Coll understudy “Billy’s Dad”. He is just great in this part. I agree that Tim Healy’s facial expressions and timing will be a very hard act to follow but Daniel seems to add his own interpretation and does a fantastic job, especially when in the show he meets one of the older ballet dancers at the Royal Ballet School Auditions – it really made me laugh.

The ballet girls also stood out for me yesterday, their ballet skills are amazing! Well done.

Emma Hudson played “Debbie”, who again just shines throughout her performance.

Now for the evening (yes I did see the show twice in one day!). I got the chance to see James who has returned to the show for a limited time. He was paired up with Brad.
Firstly, I want to say that I can see why Stephen Daldry had no hesitation in bringing him back to the show to help out for a while.
James’ acting skills are just phenomenal, especially when it came to the “Angry Dance”. I guess the other thing that I noticed was how he had so much energy.
With regards to his singing, he has a lovely voice, (I wish I could sing like it), although some of the tunes are high to sing, these were covered up extremely well.
When it came to the “Electricity” scene… what more can I say! James seemed to get such a long applause, and one to be proud of. Well-done mate.

It was also nice chatting to you briefly at the stage door.

Now Brad, who played “Michael”; you and James seemed as if you have always been paired together, especially during “Expressing Yourself” what a laugh the two of you seemed to be having.

All I can say now is that I can’t wait for December 3rd! What a day this will be… see you all their.

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Updated On: 11/20/05 at 08:22 AM

As I mentioned before, I missed the start of Liam's performance when it was live on TV so I was really pleased that Craig had quickly uploaded it and made it available on here.

As I started to watch it I thought, "what's that chatting in the background?" and only realised once everyone started talking about it that you can just make out the fact that it is the 'cue' that leads into the start of the song, ie one of the judges at the Royal Ballet School asking how it feels when Billy is dancing.

It's no wonder then that Liam couldn't hear it, not a case of forgetting the words ! Also, as I'm sure all the many fans of this show know... at the start of the song on stage, Billy leads it off when he is ready to... the other week when I saw it I wondered whether Liam was actually going to start at all, the pause seemed amazingly long !

Thus with it being the other way around on Children in Need, with the orchestra leading off first, it was again not the way Liam is used to starting off and so - as others have said - he did really well to pick it up as he did which was only noticed by the people who know how it starts and, as another contributor said, people who don't know it didn't even realise he had made a mistake. First rule, if you make a mistake and 10% of the people notice, why let the other 90% know about it ?!

I would be very surprised as well whether they had even more than one or two rehearsals for it too. Indeed if you look at the video, one of the camera shots is wrong as it 'lingers' on the two empty seats for a good few seconds before the cameraman realises he should pan to the right to pick up Liam !

As is the whole evening with Children in Need, it is fast paced and moving along all the time and with a fair bit of filling and ad-libbing taking place to keep it together. So, as I said before, for a 13 year old to pick up on a stumble and not be phased by it was superb and so professional, well done again Liam !

hear hear.

Hi, i've been following this board for ages now, but only just decided to join... The cast of Billy Elliot would probably find it so funny if they knew what a following they have, lol.

btw, does anyone know who will (provisionally, obviously) be playing Billy on Thursday 1st December in the evening cos that's when i'm next going to see the show. i've seen the show 4 times now, 1 of each Billy!! which is perfect. cheers