Musical review – “Billy Elliot”

The songs aren’t the strongest but they are fine; the chief attraction is the dancing and the spectacular sets (trying to recall the evening I saw it, I can’t remember any tunes but I can recall the dancing). At times this is like watching a really excellent school musical – I don’t mean that in a bad way it’s just that I can’t think of any other time where I’ve seen a bunch of adolescents leaping around the stage. Good performances across the board and the subject matter gives it a lot of weight. I was wondering how they’d pull off the finale and they do it quite well – though they probably could have put the segment with the dancing older Billy at the end.