The Story of BETM in Chicago--What's Likely

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The Story of BETM in Chicago--What's Likely

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This very detailed article provides some good insights into BETM Chicago, such as whether it will stay or move to Toronto with the same cast. Very interesting reading.

http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/ ... sical.html
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Good find, Ellen.

A very insightful article.
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Very good article. It gives insight that there will be some significant technical differences from the other productions:
- Chicago “Billy Elliot” is going to be different from New York, Australia and London (all of which had similar stagings).

- does not feature Billy's house rising up from an excavated basement and has a variety of new staging ideas
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I'll be interested to see what these differences are on Thursday! Really great article, thanks Ellen!
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Well, we now know that it's very likely, in fact for sure, that there will be 14 musicians in the pit for the Chicago production:

http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/ ... ayers.html
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There will also be changes in the set and lighting. http://www.techietalk.co.uk/news/billy-elliot-tour-eos/
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