Billy Elliot cast?- Page 2
Billy Elliot cast?
Heybeenfood
Broadway Star Joined: 5/15/06
#26re: Billy Elliot cast?
Posted: 7/8/08 at 10:41pmToni Collette, who was extremely interested until her television show for Showtime (THE UNITED STATES OF TARA, from the creative team behind JUNO and executive produced by Steven Spielberg) was picked up for a full season order.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
legallygreen2
Swing Joined: 5/1/08
#27re: Billy Elliot cast?
Posted: 7/8/08 at 10:47pmGrady Bowman just recently left the South Pacific ensemble to be ensemble/fight captain for Billy Elliot.
#28re: Billy Elliot cast?
Posted: 7/9/08 at 12:19am
Oh, I kinda wish you hadn't told us, Somethingwicked.
Toni Collette is one of my favorite actresses, she would have been wonderful in the role, what a pity.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#29re: Billy Elliot cast?
Posted: 7/9/08 at 2:05am
i love Billy Elliot.
who is playing the old woman
"I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a kind of nightmarish labor. They're like animals being forced to pull heavy carts of vegetables at incredible speeds." --- Wallace Shawn
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
JbaraFan1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/04
#32re: Billy Elliot cast?
Posted: 7/13/08 at 4:40pm
Thommie Retter is "Mr. Braithwaite" according to this:
http://www.genebua.com/buanews.htm
Here he is tap dancing on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSABszmbApE
#33re: Billy Elliot cast?
Posted: 7/13/08 at 5:03pmSally Dexter was fantastic in the role, she'd be a great choice for Bway.
#34re: Billy Elliot cast?
Posted: 7/13/08 at 6:14pmTo quote Mrs Wilkinson, when it comes to casting they need to "get a bleedin' move on."
#35re: Billy Elliot cast?
Posted: 7/13/08 at 9:24pmThommie retter was cast? Wow! i trained at his families dance studio and he taught me how to tap! Now hes in my favorite musical... how amazing.
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