This year Billy Elliot the Musical hits the headlines in musical race. The best performance of his spectacular actors and extraordinary choreography are well liked by skeptic critics.
Billy Elliot the Musical is a musical based on a 2000 hit movie of the same name. The music is by Sir Elton John, and book and lyrics are by Lee Hall (who wrote the film’s screenplay).
The affected billy elliot tickets musical tells the story of a young boy and his difficult way to fulfill his dream. The tale is very realistic for those young people decided to realize in professional field that is not their strength and mind. This boy lived in a small mining town proves the statement that people might follow their heart and talent.
This Musical was nominated for nine Laurence Olivier Awards, winning four including Best New Musical. This year it has won 10 awards “Tony”, the most prestigious theatrical distinction, in New York, including best musical.
However, the performance failed to improve the record of 12 awards made by the musical “Producers” in 2001. The lead actor award was shared by three boys. For the first time in Tony history this award has been shared by three remarkable young actors: David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik, and Kiril Kulish. After thanking their families and teachers, Kulish advises all kids who might want to dance not to give up. Trent Kowalik had never danced before starting his featuring in the musical.
He learnt ballet especially for his performance. For David Alvarez and Kiril Kulish their participations were very hard exam and they also needed to fulfill their schedule with all day training and practice. Billy Elliot won the Featured Actor prize for Gregory Jbara as Billy’s father, as well as awards for choreography (Peter Darling), set (Ian Macneil), lighting (Rick Fisher), sound (Paul Arditti) and a shared award for best orchestration.
The broadway shows production was also nominated for ten Drama Desk Awards, winning all ten, including Outstanding Musical, and for nine 2008-09 Outer Critics Circle Awards, wining seven, including Outstanding New Broadway Musical, and also received a Special Achievement Award for its three Billys.
All critics were united in their praise for Billy Elliot the Musical. In the UK, The Mail wrote that it was truly electrifying and it has to be seen. The Sunday Express gave it 5 stars and said that all was pure magic. The Daily Telegraph were clear. They announced that it was the greatest British musical they had ever seen. The New York Post said that Billy Eliot will be the best show you will ever see.
Melbourne’s Age claims that 2008 had saved the best for last and Billy Elliot was a near perfect performance with a brilliant production. The Herald Sun maintains that this musical make you think anything is possible if you just believe.
July 9th, 2009
Tony Award-winning Broadway and West End musical Wicked is an excited adaptation of the best-selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire and a parallel novel of L. Frank Baum’s classic story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the perspective of the witches of the Land of Oz. Wicked the musical is not Wicked the novel. While the novel is its source, the wicked san diego musical presents only pieces of it, in a much simplified form, and often diverging wildly from the novel’s narrative.
One might be tempted to think all this destroys the work; but in the end it improves it, shining a bright light on the story’s numerous ironies and interlaced levels of social commentary. But the score of musical is heavily thematic, bearing in some senses more resemblance to a film score than a traditional musical score.
The musical debuted on Broadway on October 30, 2003. It was produced by Universal Pictures and directed by Joe Mantello, with musical staging by Wayne Cilento. Choosing from the 38 speaking characters in Wicked the novel, the authors of Wicked the musical show decided to focus their show on eight key characters plus a few others and the ensemble. Current San Francisco Cast principals are:
• Kendra Kassebaum as Glinda
• Tim Talman as Witch’s Father
• Neka Zang as Witch’s Mother
• Fiama Fricano as The Midwife
• Teal Wicks as Elphaba
• Deedee Magno Hall as Nessarose
• Eddy Rioseco as Boq
• Patty Duke as Madame Morrible
• Tom Flynn as Doctor Dillamond
• Nicolas Dromard as Fiyero
• Tim Talman as The Ozian Official
• Lee Wilkof as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• Everth Lopez as Chistery
wicked cleveland tells the story of Elphaba born with emerald-green skin, smart, fiery and misunderstood, the future Wicked Witch of the West and her relationship with Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, beautiful, ambitious and very popular. Their friendship struggles through their opposing dispositoins and viewpoints, rivalry over the same love-interest, their reactions to the Wizard’s corrupt government, and, ultimately, Elphaba’s public fall from grace. Their buddy story is only one of several storylines and subplots in a carefully constructed, surprise-filled musical adventure.
The music and lyrics are birilliantly selected and presented by Stephen Schwartz. Wicked is a truly heartfelt story of friendship and love. As Richard Zoglin of ‘Time Magazine’ put it, “If every musical had a brain, a heart and the courage of Wicked, Broadway really would be a magical place!”
Wicked topped the nominations counts for all Broadway shows with a total of ten nominations and was Tony-award winner in three of them: Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical - Idina Menzel; Best Scene Design - Eugene Lee. The musical garnered the most nominations and Drama Desk awards of any show this season. Wicked’s final awards announced May 16, 2009 was:
• Oustanding Musical - Wicked,
• Outstanding Lyrics - Stephen Schwartz,
• Outstanding Book - Winnie Holzman,
• Oustanding Costume Design - Susan Hilferty,
• Oustanding Set Design of a musical - Eugene Lee
• Oustanding Director of a Musical - Joe Mantello
At the end of January 2009, Wicked began showing in San Francisco. A second Wicked tour of the United States and Canada started on March 7, 2009 at the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall in Fort Myers, FL. Now the tour continues trough Memphis, TN, Tempe, AZ, Tulsa, OK, San Diego, CA, Austin, TX, Seattle, WA, Nashville, TN, wicked des moines civic center, IA, Denver, CO, Wichita, KS, Kansas City, KS, Cleveland, OH, Schenectady, NY, Providence, RI. Others cities will expect Wicked in 2010: Philadelphia, PA, Syracuse, NY, Greenville, SC, Dayton, OH, Miami, FL, Richmond, VA, Durham, NC, Toledo, OH, St. Louis, MO.
July 3rd, 2009