Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot

[timjones]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#1

Posted: 8/4/10 at 4:58pm

Emily Skinner is one of my favorite actresses, I was wondering how long she was going to be on the Billy Elliot tour? Is she just playing in Chicago?? Also, for anyone who has seen her as Mrs. Wilkinson, is she good in the role?

[PastorErnst]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#2

Posted: 8/4/10 at 5:04pm

Rumour is that Kate Hennig will join the tour when it leaves Chicago and heads to Toronto.

[jimmycurry01]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#2

Posted: 8/4/10 at 5:08pm

She was fantastic in the role, I really enjoyed her and the entire production.

[pc1145N2]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#3

Posted: 8/4/10 at 8:07pm

I didn't really enjoy this production but Emily Skinner was a true standout. She made the show for me.

[KChenowethfan]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#4

Posted: 8/4/10 at 8:42pm

I think she's in the Chicago production through December. I heard that she may be going into the Broadway production after that, but I have not seen that confirmed in any media outlet.

"Why do you care what people might say? Why try to fit into their design?" (Side Show)

[JRybka]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#5

Posted: 8/4/10 at 9:04pm

Emily is a goddess and i adore her. (just saying)

"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."

[shrekster224]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#6

Posted: 8/4/10 at 9:14pm

So Emily and Kate would basically be switching spots?

The recent Mrs. Wilkinsons have really been amazing. On broadway, Kate Hennig runs the show ever night in her role and she always gives it her all. I've seen her quite a few times, and even one time she was clearly not feeling well, she sang the score as well as possible. And Emily Skinner is great, playing the character differently, yet still amazing!

[PastorErnst]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#7

Posted: 8/4/10 at 9:35pm

The producers are planning to swap Emily and Kate because they want to pump more Canadians into the cast during the Canadian stop.

[timjones]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#8

Posted: 8/5/10 at 12:18am

so then is there any info on the tour cast???

[twinbelters]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#9

Posted: 8/5/10 at 1:05am

Chenofan: you think Skinner is in Billy in Chicago through December? Does this mean you think Billy is in Chicago through December? Do you have anything to back this claim up?

With Irma you gotta do something!

[timjones]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#10

Posted: 8/5/10 at 1:18am

You can view the website for Billy Elliot or broadway in chicago's website and it says that it is in Chicago until I believe Jan. 15, 2011 after that it goes to Canada, so that company and the touring company must be different productions!

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#11

Posted: 8/5/10 at 2:10am

Michael Dameski and Kylend Hetherington are playing Billy on tour. (Others unknown)
Jeff Kready is playing Tony.

[margot serena pilar]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#12

Posted: 8/5/10 at 3:35am

I hope she fits into the leotard!

[PastorErnst]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#13

Posted: 8/5/10 at 9:01am

@taylorPHENOMENON2 I'm assuming that's the casting for the 2nd national tour because it's my understanding that the majority of the Chicago cast will continue with the 1st national tour.

[Lexie27]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#14

Posted: 8/5/10 at 9:47am

I talked to Emily after a concert she did in Maryland in May. She said she was moving to NYC around the first of the year to do the role on Broadway. I'm excited because I saw her in Chicago and she was fantastic!

[bryan2]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#15

Posted: 8/5/10 at 10:52am

Emily is great!! I do not want to see Billy Elliott but
if she is in it in NYC I am there!!!

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#16

Posted: 8/5/10 at 11:51am

@taylorPHENOMENON2 I'm assuming that's the casting for the 2nd national tour because it's my understanding that the majority of the Chicago cast will continue with the 1st national tour.

Yes. But Tommy Batchelor and Keean Johnson will be leaving the Chicago company soon.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#17

Posted: 8/5/10 at 11:53am

I'd love to re-visit the show with Emily Skinner in it, I can only imagine how great she is in the role. I've seen Gwynne and Henning, obviously Gwynne was fantastic but Henning was also pretty good.

"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"

[twinbelters]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#18

Posted: 8/5/10 at 5:29pm

timjones: Thank you. I haven't looked at the Billy at BIC site in a while. The last time i checked on it the site said the run was fairly open ended.

With Irma you gotta do something!

[AC126748]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#19

Posted: 8/5/10 at 6:24pm

I hope she fits into the leotard!

Bitchy comment aside, have you seen her lately? She's dropped a ton of weight and looks fabulous.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[sgv123]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#20

Posted: 8/5/10 at 6:36pm

Daniel Russell will also be a tour Billy. He is another Australian Billy.

[broadwayworldreader]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#21

Posted: 8/6/10 at 12:20pm

i heard she is going into the broadway cast after Chicago. She was supposed to come do a master class at my school and had to back out because of it.

[timjones]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#22

Posted: 8/8/10 at 1:33am

Ok, so is Chicago part of the 1st national tour? And If so, are stops such as Durham NC part of the 2nd national tour???

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Emily Skinner in Billy Elliot#23

Posted: 8/8/10 at 1:51am

North Carolina is the kick off of the second national tour.