Victoria Palace Theatre,London Director Stephen Daldry made amusing artistic virtue of legal necessity and Sir Elton John savoured the show’s success Even before sampling the refreshments at the after-show celebration, the audience at the final London night of Billy Elliot was seeing quadruple. For Saturday’s 4, and 600th and final performance of the musical’s 11-year dash at the Victoria Palace theatre,director Stephen Daldry introduced sequences featuring all four of the adolescent actors who alternated the title role. Another scene united the trio of girls who shared the fragment of Debbie, daughter of the dance teacher who tutors Billy to a place at the Royal Ballet school during the 1984 miners’ strike.
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Source: theguardian.com