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MTI has licensed BETM at the Beck Center for Cultural Arts in Lakewood, Ohio, from 07/08/2016 to 08/14/2016.

http://www.mtishows.com/show_detail.asp?showid=000437

Beck Center for the Arts hosts the longest running youth theater program in the United States, running for nearly sixty years. It is the largest theater and arts center on Cleveland's West Shore, educating and entertaining over 65,000 people per year.

http://www.beckcenter.org/
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This is the first official mention of BETM coming to the Beck Center in the 2015/2016 season:

http://lakewoodobserver.com/read/2015/0 ... eck-center

And this:

http://www.beckcenter.org/2015/05/15/20 ... er-season/
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Here is another announcement about the 2016 season, and BETM:

http://www.cleveland.com/onstage/index. ... 7-sho.html
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Auditions announcement for the Billys -- rehearsals to start for them on May 29, 2016

http://www.backstage.com/casting/billy- ... witterfeed
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porschesrule wrote:Auditions announcement for the Billys -- rehearsals to start for them on May 29, 2016

http://www.backstage.com/casting/billy- ... witterfeed
This is the lead page to the casting call notice linked above:

http://www.backstage.com/news/casting/k ... auditions/
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Most recent audition notice: two Billys will be required:

http://www.beckcenter.org/2016/01/22/au ... ly-elliot/
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Looks like one of their Billy's (Seth Judice) will do just fine. You can see a post confirming Seth's Billy on the Beck Center for Arts post https://www.facebook.com/beckcenter/ from June 2.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGJmdXlxQnV ... incespedes
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Here is that specific post on their Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/beckcenter/pos ... 7940720596
Meet Seth Judice, our Billy Elliot. He joins us from Houston, TX. Let's give Seth a big Cleveland welcome! (this is his first rehearsal, folks!)
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By the way, this is the same Seth Judice who last year played Micheal in the Memphis production with Benjamin Cheng as Billy.

http://www.billyelliottheforum.me.uk/fo ... 270&t=5679
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Here is a look behind the curtain of Billy Elliot rehearsals with Seth and choreographer Martín Céspedes:

https://www.facebook.com/beckcenter/pos ... 9647330596
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