Time sure does fly when you’re having fun! No one knows that better than the cast of Billy Elliot, who celebrated their first Broadway birthday on November 13. The partiers, which included a collection of Billys ranging from Tony winners David Alvarez and Trent Kowalik to their fellow current cast members Tommy Batchelor and Alex Ko to upcoming stars ...

Broadway's Tony Award winning Billy Elliot is gaining two new title stars: Dayton Tavares and Liam Redhead. The pair join original Tony Award-winning Billys Trent Kowalik and David Alvarez, as well as newcomer Alex Ko. Current star Tommy Batchelor exits the production on December 11 in preparation for the show's 2010 national tour. First performance dates for both ...

While Rock of Ages might seem the most obvious Broadway location one might catch a glimpse of world-famous KISS rocker Paul Stanley, the guitarist "Rock and Roll[ed] All Nite" at a somewhat sweeter theater hot spot on October 14: Billy Elliot. Yes, the Queens-born axe-wielder traded full-face makeup and leather for razzle-dazzle and tutus, checking out the 10-time Tony-winning ...

iCarly, meet Billy! Miranda Cosgrove, the 16-year-old star of Nickelodeon's Drake and Josh and iCarly, stepped off the small screen and onto Broadway on September 15, heading directly to our current mecca of underaged talent: Billy Elliot. There, Cosgrove bonded with the Tony-winning cast's long list of teen and tween talent, including current title stars Tommy Batchelor and ...

Ten-time Tony Award winning musical Billy Elliot may have originally opened on the London stage over four years ago, but that doesn't mean the hit show's razzle-dazzle appeal has worn off on the locals. In fact, Billy has so much staying power that London Mayor Boris Johnson made a point to see the powerhouse Broadway production during his ...

The national tour of Billy Elliot, which kicks off at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts Oriental Theatre in Chicago in March 2010, has found its three young stars. Alternating in the title role will be 14-year-old Tommy Batchelor (currently playing the role on Broadway), 12-year-old Giuseppe Bausilio and 13-year-old Cesar Corrales.

Batchelor is a native of Palm Beach ...

Broadway's Billy Elliot is packed with Tony Award honored triple-threats (Tony-winning title stars Kiril Kulish, David Alvarez and Trent Kowalik; Tony Award nominees Carole Shelley, Haydn Gwynne and David Bologna; and Tony Award winner Gregory Jbara, just to name a few), so mixing and mingling with uber-talented award holders is just part of the cast's daily routine. The ...