Billy Elliot in San Francisco in early 2010 — Page 2

Thank you for the info Lizzie Currie, unfortunately nothing in there to indicate theatre capacities!

Lizzie's tenderknob is gonna explode with all these exciting news!

I've played the Curran Theatre and the Orpheum before. The Curran is a wonderful theatre, but has nowhere NEAR the space BILLY would require. There is hardly sufficient dressing room/backstage space and the set wouldn't fit. The Orpheum is the ideal space, depending on how well WICKED does. The Golden Gate area is just downright scary, athough a huge theatre.

According to my Phantom playbill, the Orpheum has a 2203 capacity.

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Many thanks for the information, the Orpheum and Golden Gate is bigger than anything in New York, so alright and theatre sizee, the Curran is similar size to the Imperial in New York and the Palace in London, so could play all three venues would be suitable.

However the Curran, has too small stage, I did not think Billy Elliot wouls neet a big stage!

Billy Elliot, could just sit down to gauge the market, if it gets a 1 run, it can always then move to Chicago, then Washington, back to the West Coast to Los Angeles, then to Toronto, all these city with the exception of Washington could do a long sit down, touring the cities above could easily take 5-6 years.

It would be possible to have a second touring company to do the minor theatre cities, such as Houston, Des Moines, kansas etc

That is the good thing with the USA, it is big enough to sustain a tour or 2, where back in the UK we are not really big enough to do this, lucky if a tour would last 2 years.

Thats true they need a deep stage, for Billy bedroom/stairs/kitchen, which I imagine would need a drop of 30ft. You also have the dining room table/piano/Box that appears but this does not need to be that deep, also in the end you have the miners going down on a lift to resemble a mine shaft. the later two do not need that much depth. It is the Bedroom/stairs/kitchen that needs extra depth, I imagine you could improvise with this and guess you could have this scene come down from the roof, but this might compromise the wire for the Swan Lake scene?

It could be even possible to push this bit in?