Tracking Billy Elliot: US/CA Tour - 2012

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Billy/Michael/Tall Boy

April
1 - (Mat) Kylend/Jacob/Cameron
1 - (Eve) Zach/Cameron/Jacob (Last Show in San Antonio)

10 - JP/Cameron/Jacob (1st Show in Los Angeles)
11 - Kylend/Jacob/Zach as TB
12 - Ty/Cameron/Jacob
13 - Zach/Jacob/Cameron
14 - (Mat) JP/Cameron/Jacob
14 - (Eve) Kylend/Jacob/Cameron (Kylend's 100th show as Billy - includes two partial shows at .5)
15 - (Mat) Ty/Cameron/Jacob
15 - (Eve) Zach/Jacob/Cameron
17 - Kylend/Cameron/Jacob
18 - Ty/Jacob/Cameron
19 - Zach/Cameron/Kylend as TB (Corrected Post)
20 - JP/Jacob/Cameron
21 - (Mat) Kylend/Cameron/Jacob
21 - (Eve) Ty & JP/Jacob/Cameron (Ty performed Act 1 and was replaced by JP for Act 2)
22 - (Mat) Zach/Cameron/Jacob
22 - (Eve) JP/Jacob/Cameron
24 - JP/Jacob/Cameron
25 - Zach/Cameron/Jacob
26 - Ty/Jacob/JP as TB
27 - Kylend/Cameron/Jacob
28 - (Mat) JP/Jacob/Cameron
28 - (Eve) Zach/Cameron/Jacob
29 - (Mat) Ty/Jacob/Cameron
29 - (Eve) Kylend/Cameron/Jacob (500th Tour Show - includes 4 Durham previews)

Monthly Performance Totals

Total US/CA Tour Performances for April = 26 (US/CA Tour Total to Date = 500, including 4 Durham previews)

Kylend - 7 (Cumulative Total = 104)
J.P. - 6.5 (Cumulative Total = 170, including: Chicago -71.5, Toronto - 37, US Tour - 61.5)
Ty - 5.5 (Cumulative Total = 76.5, including: Toronto -31, US Tour - 45.5)
Zach - 7 (Cumulative Total = 26.5)
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JP is playing TB/PB. Lots of understudies again. (4/26)

No news about what happened to Kylend Saturday?
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mxmx wrote:JP is playing TB/PB. Lots of understudies again. (4/26)

No news about what happened to Kylend Saturday?
It was Ty that did half the show and since he is on tonight i'm assuming he is fine.
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Ben Cook was in the house tonight & said Ty had hurt his foot Saturday night, Kylend is okay but he had no idea why he hasn't gone on since Saturday matinee. It was a unique evening worth reporting in the L.A. thread....
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mxmx wrote:Ben Cook was in the house tonight & said Ty had hurt his foot Saturday night, Kylend is okay but he had no idea why he hasn't gone on since Saturday matinee. It was a unique evening worth reporting in the L.A. thread....
I guess I’m having a little trouble seeing any “uniqueness” in what you’ve posted, mxmx.

Though the boys who play Billy are a tough breed and are well conditioned, in the course of the grind that is the Billys’ normal week of training, stamina enhancing exercises, rehearsals and the actual performance of shows, there are bound to be days when they feel under the weather or “tweak” something. The adult creative staff always errs on the side of caution when dealing with such things. So one shouldn’t read anything more than that into it when the occasional split show occurs.

With regard to your speculation as why Kylend hasn’t been on since last Saturday – the answer is simple: it wasn’t his turn. We have to remember that because of the nature of the weekly performance schedule, 50% of the performances fall on just two days – Saturday and Sunday. On those two days, normally all four Billys perform. The other 50% of the schedule is spread over four weekdays (Tues thru Fri). If one looks at the tracking threads for either London or the Tour, it can be seen that a “gap” between performances of any Billy is not uncommon. It just depends on the schedules of the back-to-back weeks.

And if there’s one thing I’ve learned about scheduling, there is often no discernable pattern to compare the order of the Billys' performances from one week to the next. When scheduling, there are just too many variables that the scheduler knows that the public (or even other members of the cast) have no idea about that would preclude trying to figure it out.

So last week’s “order” was Kylend, Ty, Zach, JP. This week the order is JP, Zach, Ty (and then probably Kylend – though we don’t yet know that he’s on tonight for sure). So Kylend did Tuesday and Saturday last week and will probably do Friday and Sunday this week.

From what I’ve said, above, I think you can see that there’s nothing really unique about this week’s schedule. Also, for a variety of reasons, I’d caution about publicly speculating on why a certain Billy is or isn’t performing or repeating what a cast or crew member (especially the child cast) may have said in a private conversation unless it can be documented by something in the public realm.
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The "uniqueness" of the evening was posted in the L.A. thread where I thought it belonged (as it didn't have to do with the Billy rotation), but has now moved to the Tour review thread. Thanks for the housekeeping.

No presumptions were intended about the rotations, but with a group of four Billys playing 8-show weeks, if you look back over the tracking roster, it is very unusual for 6 shows to go by with one of the Billys not going on while in the interim another does three consecutive performance days and yet another goes on 4 days after an injury. With all this happening in conjunction with a lot of understudies stepping in, it's only natural to wonder if something is going on out of genuine concern for the hard-working members of the touring company.
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The master chart for April has been updated to include the evening performance of Sunday, April 29th, marking the 500th Tour show.

Congratulations to cast and crew!

Total performance data for April has also been added. Please scroll up a few posts to see the latest chart.
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Billy/Michael/Tall Boy

May
1 - Zach/Cameron/JP as Tall Boy
2 - Ty/Jacob/Cameron
3 - JP/Cameron/Jacob
4 - Kylend/Jacob/Cameron
5 - (Mat) Zach/Cameron/Jacob
5 - (Eve) Ty/Jacob/Cameron
6 - (Mat) JP/Cameron/Jacob
6 - (Eve) Kylend/Jacob/Cameron
8 - Kylend/Jacob/Ty as Tall Boy
9 - Zach/Cameron/Jacob
10 - Ty/Jacob/Cameron
11 - JP/Cameron/Jacob
12 - (Mat) Kylend/Jacob/Cameron
12 - (Eve) Zach/Cameron/Jacob
13 - (Mat) Ty/Jacob/Cameron
13 - (Eve) JP/Cameron/Jacob (Last Show in Los Angeles) (Last Shows on the Tour for JP Viernes, Leah Hocking and Jeremy Zorek)

Monthly Performance Totals

Total US/CA Tour Performances for May = 16 (US/CA Tour Total to Date = 516, including 4 Durham previews)

Kylend - 4 (Cumulative Total = 108)
J.P. - 4 (Cumulative Total = 174, including: Chicago -71.5, Toronto - 37, US Tour - 65.5)
Ty - 4 (Cumulative Total = 80.5, including: Toronto -31, US Tour - 49.5)
Zach - 4 (Cumulative Total = 30.5)

The Tour will now be on hiatus until June 12th when it opens in Des Moines, IA.
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Billy/Michael/Tall Boy

June
12 - Zach/Cameron/Jacob (1st Show in Des Moines) (Corrected post)
13 - Kylend/Jacob/Cameron (250th show as Michael for Jacob)
14 - Ty/Cameron/Jacob
15 - Kylend/Jacob/Cameron
16 - (Mat) Zach/Cameron/Jacob
16 - (Eve) Ty/Jacob/Cameron
17 - (Mat) Kylend/Cameron/Jacob
17 - (Eve) Zach/Jacob/Cameron (Last Show in Des Moines)
19 - Ty/Jacob/Cameron (1st Show in Appleton)
20 - Zach/Cameron/Jacob
21 - Kylend/Jacob/Cameron
22 - Ty/Cameron/Jacob
23 - (Mat) Zach/Jacob/Cameron
23 - (Eve) Kylend/Cameron/Jacob
24 - (Mat) Ty/Jacob/Cameron
24 - (Eve) Zach & Kylend/Cameron/Jacob (Last Show in Appleton) (Updated post)
26 - Kylend/Cameron/Jacob (1st Show in Louisville)
27 - Ty/Jacob/Cameron (1st Full Show for new Small Boy - Cal Alexander)
28 - Kylend/Cameron/Jacob (1st Show for Janet Dickinson - Mrs. Wilkinson)
29 - Zach/Jacob/Cameron
30 - (Mat) Ben/Ethan/Jacob (Debuts: Ben Cook as Billy and Ethan Major as Michael)
30 - (Eve) Ty/Cameron/Jacob

Monthly Performance Totals

Total US/CA Tour Performances for June = 22 (US/CA Tour Total to Date = 538, including 4 Durham previews)

Kylend - 7.5 (Cumulative Total = 115.5)
Ty - 7 (Cumulative Total = 87.5, including: Toronto -31, US Tour - 56.5)
Zach - 6.5 (Cumulative Total = 37)
Ben - 1 (Cumulative Total = 1)
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