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'Billy Elliot: The Musical' debuts on B'way - read the reviews

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Well, this is by no means comprehensive, but I figure until I get to the news around 5:30 or 6:00AM this will satisfying folks wanting to know how Billy Elliot: The Musical fared with critics.

Andy Propst

Tri-State clips are done...7:04AM...you'll find most of the reviews in there now

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AmericanTheaterWeb

Review: Billy Elliot: The Musical - Simply Electrifying

New York Times

Theater Review - Billy Elliot - In Hard Times, Born to Pirouette ...
Much of the power of “Billy Elliot” as an honest tear-jerker lies in its ability to give equal weight to the sweet dreams of terpsichorean ...

amNY

Theater Review of Billy Elliot: The Musical

Associated Press

A warmhearted 'Billy Elliot' dances to Broadway with superlative cast

Bloomberg.com

`Billy Elliot,' Coal Miner's Son, Leaps to Broadway's Heights: John Simon
A show's claim to offer ``something for everyone'' usually signals disaster: the lowest common denominator and the antithesis of art. Well, for once, the exception proves true: ``Billy Elliot'' -- London's long-running hit with Elton John's music, finally replicated on Broadway -- really does have something for everyone, and that something is, gloriously, art.

USA Today

'Billy Elliot' musical taps into the hope and energy of youth

Variety

Review: Billy Elliot: The Musical
Three-and-a-half years may seem a long time for an instantaneous London smash like "Billy Elliot: The Musical" to cross the Atlantic, but the delay looks to have played serendipitously into the producers' hands.

Back Stage

Billy Elliot: The Musical reviwed by David Sheward
What could easily have become a feel-good treacle fest — particularly with Elton John composing the music — turns out to be one of the smartest and most satisfying Broadway musicals in years.

Hartford Courant

Smashing 'Billy Elliot' Shows The Theatrical Powers Of Stephen Daldry

Philadelphia Inquirer

'Rocky' in toe shoes

Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog

An unbridled 'Billy Elliot' springs itself on Broadway

Los Angeles Times

Theater review: 'Billy Elliot' on Broadway

TheaterMania

Review: Billy Elliot: The Musical
The Elton John-Lee Hall musical adaptation of the hit film about an English boy who decides to become a ballet dancer is gangbuster entertainment.

Talkin' Broadway

Review: Billy Elliot
Passion, power, and freedom explode from the boy at the center of the musical Billy Elliot whenever he's allowed - or whenever he allows himself - to take to his feet and express his pain in movement. Born to a family of coal miners in the U.K.'s County Durham, Billy has never known the primal ecstasy of creation in its purest and most elemental state, but once he tastes it he cannot return to the artless world of his birth. It may be a cliché, but for Billy it's true: He comes alive only when he dances. . .