Overcome with emotion, his father goes to Mrs. Unknown to Billy, his father arrives and watches him dance. Billy feels like dancing for the first time since the day of the aborted audition and dances while dreaming of being a grown-up dancer (“Dream Ballet”). Michael departs but leaves a music player running. Michael tries to get Billy to show him some dancing, but Billy is sad and just tells him to leave. Left alone with Billy in the community center, Michael reveals he has feelings for him, but Billy explains that the fact that he likes ballet does not mean that he is gay. Jackie gets drunk and sings an old folk song that elicits memories of his deceased wife and the usually stoic man leaves in tears (“Deep Into the Ground”). Six months later, at the miners’ annual Christmas show, the children put on a show disparaging Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who is seen as the antagonist by the coal miners (“Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher”). Billy goes into a rage (“Angry Dance”), and for nearly a year, stays away from anything related to ballet. The police approach and, as everyone escapes, Billy calls out to his father saying that his mother would have let him dance, but Jackie refuses to accept that, saying that “Your Mam’s dead!”. Tony tries to force Billy to dance on the table in front of everyone. This news upsets Jackie and Tony, who gets into an argument with Mrs. She is forced to reveal that she has been teaching Billy ballet in preparation for this very day. Billy’s family and some members of the community have gathered there. Wilkinson for the audition, she goes to the Elliot home. Because Billy had not come to the miner’s hall to get picked up by Mrs. When the day of the Royal Ballet School audition arrives, police are coming through the village and Tony has been injured by the police.
They struggle to support the family with very little strike and union pay, a difficult task that goes on for nearly a year. Meanwhile, Jackie and Tony are engaged in daily battles with riot police that often turn bloody. Wilkinson’s daughter Debbie tries to discourage Billy because she has a crush on him. Wilkinson while he develops an impressive routine for his audition (“Born to Boogie”). He begins learning from and bonding with Mrs. He persuades Billy to have fun with him by dressing up in women’s clothing and disdaining the restrictive inhibitions of their working-class community (“Expressing Yourself”).īilly arrives for his first private ballet lesson bringing with him things to inspire a special dance for the audition (“Dear Billy (Mum’s Letter)”). Billy is not sure what he wants to do so he visits his best friend Michael for advice.
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To prepare for the audition, she offers free private lessons. Wilkinson, who recognizes Billy’s talent, privately suggests that he should audition for the Royal Ballet School in London. While Billy’s father Jackie, brother Tony and neighbors are on strike and clash with riot police, he continues to take dance lessons, keeping it a secret from his family (“Solidarity”), a number which intersperses the violent reality of the strike with the peaceful practice of ballet.Įventually, Jackie discovers Billy in the ballet class and forbids him from attending the lessons. She reveals her abusive relationship with her dead husband and that she too loved to dance, which made everything all right (“Grandma’s Song”). The secret is at first easily kept, as the only person home at the time is his grandmother. He is the only boy but becomes attracted to the grace of the dance (“Shine”). Motherless eleven-year-old Billy is required to stay behind after his boxing class and finds his way into a ballet class run by Mrs. In County Durham, the 1984–85 coal miners’ strike is just beginning (“The Stars Look Down”).
Directed by: Stephen Daldry, Brett SullivanĪ talented young dancer has to learn to fight for his dream despite social and parental disapproval.
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