Inside Rehearsal For BILLY ELLIOT at Curve Leicester

Curve is famous for doing brilliant musicals and we have one of the best stages in the

country for musical theatre and that's sort of our bread and butter and so it would make

sense that we would want to do one of the greatest British musicals ever written, which

of course is Billy Elliot. It's a show about trying to find your own voice in a world where there's a lot of pressures

and I think it's really relevant for us today. Working on an iconic British score by Elton John and Lee Hall is really appealing

In rehearsals we've been doing lots of fun activities. I'm just really excited for the whole thing

It's just showing other people what young people can do. This week they've done boxing workshops, they're learning how to navigate complex harmonies

they're learning choreography. It was like jab, jab, rear and then we had to do hook and then rear hook and it was just

I loved it. I absolutely love performing, it means a lot. Yesterday we learnt expressing yourself, the dance and the song and that's a very funny

bit in my opinion. It's a very fun dance and it's like a partner dance with Billy and Michael so it was great

fun to do. Billy Elliot means a lot to me because it's the thing that inspired me to do singing

dancing and acting. It feels like a dream come true because I've like dreamed of doing the rehearsals

The show closed six years ago, they should come back and get a new experience, new ideas

and I think that's what's happening here, especially with the great director

Come and see the show and just have your mind blown by the wealth of young talent, our incredible

adult company, the sensational choreography, the incredible design. I would say it's exciting. Fun. Bold. Outstanding. Passionate. Jubilant. Breathtaking. Inspiring. Different. Amazing

And British