Billy Elliot The Musical — Page 127

I just watched it and it was really good!! They even got them tapping in the middle of it!

Well, after a couple calls and e-mails to Amazon UK (considering I placed my order in early November and after everything I've done to promote them as the best shipping method to North America), my box set [b]FINALLY[/b] arrived today.

Turns out it was held up in Canada Customs (who then charged me $10 tax and duty). I was convinced I wouldn't get it until after Christmas.

When I left the post office, I stuck it in the CD player. Not a good idea. As soon as "Stars Look Down", I had to start wiping my eyes AND I was stuck in Christmas traffic. The other drivers must have thought I was suffering holiday depression.

All is good now. Listening to "Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher" as I write.

Accy
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......... "The Letter" and "The Letter -- Reprise."

I'll be very interested to heard Accord's impressions on the OCR as a whole. It rocks, bigtime, for me.

I have it stuck in my 6-disc CD player in the car, surrounded by the book on CD that I'm listening to. A murder mystery. If I get bored with the book, I can always skip over to Billy, and my day is instantly brightened.

I do fear the CD is setting me up to be a basket case when I see the show live, again next year. Hankie protocols are at the top of my to-do list under the direction of Miss Manners.

tzwicky

Managed to get seat today for BE. Good show have now seen all three of the origionals. Not fair to comment on who is the best as they all excell in certain departments.

Hiya dancing_girl and Jen.

Shame you went to Mamma Mia and not BE, cos I was there again today.... along with Jen and a few others from the board... who are probably posting messages on the other one... I really do find it hard to keep up!

Great show and interesting to see the new cast and the changes that have been made.

Great to see Liam and Ryan paired up together as they are now with new 'partners', on a regular basis. Liam is with Brad and Ryan is with Travis... makes sense as they are pretty well matched size wise.

Had a great long chat with Ryan last Thursday evening outside the stage door and got to meet Travis too... although not seen him on stage yet.

How do I upload a pic onto here ? I was showing the guys in the queue at the Theatre today my camera phone pic of Travis and Ryan so will happily share it here if someone can point me in the right direction, Accy ?

Got to see Ashley there on Thursday as well as he was in London so dropped in to say hello to all his old cast mates - who were really pleased to see him. Hope you are reading this Ashley, was great to see you again and hope the film does well and you get lots more work.

Today's show was excellent. Ryan's 12th birthday and he gave it all he had. Shame nobody in the show got to tell everyone it was his birthday. I remember the first time I saw the show, on 13th May with James, he 'ad-libbed' a "Happy Birthday Mate" to one of the ensemble in the Finale, a great touch.

Had a quick chat with Liam's parents and commented that he is growing so fast and getting thinner!... a couple of times he had to pull his trousers up as they kept slipping down.

Ryan's family were really friendly as always and we were pleased to see that 'Michael' now gets his own 'bow' and recognition at the end of the show as well - really deserved!

Sorry I didn't get to say goodbye to the other board members. I thought I might see you round by the stage door but was a bit of a rush in the end. Still I'm sure we will probably meet again on a future date.

Merry Christmas one and all, especially Maggie Thatcher!


Brian

Happy Christmas Everyone

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Hi everyone, HAPPY CHRISTMAS! Hope everyone has had a great day.
Is anyone going to see BE on New Year's Eve (Saturday)? I'm seeing the matinee, anyone have any idea who I'll be seeing? Any help much appreciated!
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I just got the best christmas present ever- the OCR. YIPEEE!! I havnt stopped listening since I got it.
Merry Christmas!

ahhhh amy only 4 more days left! i CANNOT WAIT ANY LONGER!!! ooooooooohhhhhhhh i cnt wait..EEK! its goin 2 be so much fun! i really wana no who we r goin 2 get becoz id luv 2 c da origanals b4 they leave- seen george n luv him 2 pieces- but i dont care who i get so long as i get 2 c it agen!!!!! im ded excited! the 1st thing i sed when i saw it 4 ma birthday was im goin bak 2 c it agen! n i am....WAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOO! sowi i must seem so weird but im really excited its only 4 days to goooo!
k wel best go now
bi-c-bi
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Does James still do weekends or just every now and then, or has he stopped completely? I read that he was in it til Christmas, but is he still there or not? And what about George? I know they've had their 'official' leaving nights, but when they were on Des and Mel they sounded very much as though they were still involved with the show.

Small point: George is from Essex, not Sussex!

Updated On: 12/31/05 at 05:09 PM

NO SERIUSLY SOZ I GET MIXED UP WITH THEM I ALWAYS HAVE DONE LOL REALLY SOZ DO APOLIGISE THEY SOUND ALIKE