Here's a translation or shall we call it '(bad student) essay'
A few more translations, and I get the hang of icelandic.
Were selected out of a crowd of 900.
"Just because we're going to be ballet dancers doesn't mean we won't stay as cool as we are", says the 13 year old Baldvin Alan Thorarensen. He will along with the 12 year old Sölva Viggóssyni Dýrfjörð and the 12 year old Hirti Viðari Sigurðarsyni (their names are spelt differently - grammar???) play the ballet dancer Billy Elliot in the City Theatre's new production this winter, directed by Bergs þórs Ingólfssonar (Berg Thor Ingolfsson).
"We dedicated the summer to the taut ballet exercises and are (now) decidedly more strong and athletic, this(ballet) is incredibly demanding", says Hjörtur Viðar and laughs. Not only have they learned to dance, but also acting, singing, gymnastics and jazz dance. "They endured it all very well and have considerably improved ," says the director Berg þór.
The boys have in common to come from Ballroom Dance. "The movements in ballet are different. The balancing is different because in Ballroom are two together and in Ballet it's just one," says Baldvin.
Incipiently, there came about 900 boys to audition for playing Billy Elliot. They were filtered three times, but finally six boys were invited to a Billy-summer-school. Yet finally Baldvin, Sölvi and Hjörtur were elected as the People's Theatre's Billys. Chantelle Carey and Elizabeth Grea Allesley are experienced dance teachers ( or: are teaching the major part of the dancing lessons), they both have been working with various musicals in London's West End. The 3 boys will shift performances between them. "We will swap, if any of us falls ill, but this is still quite tough," says Sölvi.
Billy Elliot will premiere in March, but aren't the boys not too nervous to step on the big stage of the City Theatre? "Sure, we're a bit nervous, but we look forward to it anyway and we're really thrilled", says Baldvin and Hjörtur adds: "I dreamed the other night I was playing on the stage and I nearly felt the electricity." They all had been in school plays before.
Billy Elliot is a boxer lad but the boys didn't go to such training yet. "We won't be getting any boxing lessons, since we already got similar experiences", says Baldvin, who reveals to have practiced some martial arts after he did karate. The boys will practice relentlessly forward to the opening night.
so I assume it's sold out by now 
