Broadway 'Billy' to seal

The ultimate dance is originating for your Broadway outpost of "Billy Elliot," which has set a closing date of Jan. 8. Production taken the 2010 Tonys, retrieved its $18 million capital within 14 several days and until this year consistently drenched weekly sales of $millions of or maybe more. Still, the tuner couldn't manage the sturdiness of hit U.K. imports such as the 10-year-old "Mamma Mia!" Weekly tallies from recent frames were not spectacular, nonetheless they were definately not dire, aside from the clobberings "Billy" needed from Hurricane Irene as well as in the standard publish-Labor Day drop. Past couple of seshes saw the show pull in around $720,000 every week. Maintaining "Billy," however, is certainly an usually pricey endeavor due to the ceaseless requirement of triple-threat youthful thesps who rapidly outgrow the role in the protag, a coal miner's boy from northern England who just desires to dance. The creating model therefore features a kind of wunderkind factory that constantly scouts, trains and rehearses youthful artists. It is really an unusual cost for just about any Broadway show to cope with. Some on the market also speculate the specificity in the show's social and political backdrop (set within a period of time at work unrest in eighties England), with the plentiful cursing from everyone onstage, has saved the tuner from achieving historic success with American family and tourist auds. Still, Broadway's "Billy" has created plenty of gold gold coin within the time round the Rialto, while using tuner ringing greater than $170 million since it began perfs March. 1, 2008. "Billy," with book and lyrics by film author Lee Hall and music by Elton John, had its world preem london in 2005, where the Stephen Daldry-helmed staging remains playing. Gleam U . s . States touring production out on the road. The Broadway version is produced by Universal Pictures Stage Prods., Working Title Films and Old Vic Prods. in colaboration with Weinstein Live Entertainment. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com