When Billy Elliot the Musical caused a sensation in London in 2005 and then swept the 2009 Tonys with 10 awards, you could be excused for wondering what all the fuss was about. Wasn't this yet another in a seemingly endless and mostly unnecessary line of movie-into-musical transformations? The answer in the case of Billy is a definite no. There has never been a musical quite like this before that blends politics a…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:33PM on June 29, 2011