NYT article (February 2013) references Billy

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From today's New York Times (February 21, 2013)

http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/t ... 7sGvcgb08A

The lines referencing Billy, if you're not interested in the general article:

Stage musicals that don’t turn away from the foibles of the workaday life still often scrape off some of the surface grit to accentuate the feel-good aspects of the tale being told. Consider “The Full Monty,” which punched up the comic relief and the striptease sizzle of its source material, or “Billy Elliot,” the feel-good story of a boy taking flight from economic hardship and labor strife — quite literally, in the musical — through a love of ballet.