Myles Erlick: Billy - Chicago, Toronto, NY and Muny

[Billy Whiz]

This tweet was posted today on the Toronto Blue Jays (whatever they are - pardon my ignorance) Twitter

National Anthems performed by Myles Erlick & Marcus Pei, from the Canadian production of BILLY ELLIOT

[ERinVA]

http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/news/pr ... p&c_id=tor

[Billy Whiz]

http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/news/pr ... p&c_id=tor

Thanks ERinVA.

It's a rounders team

[ERinVA]

Not quite; it's a baseball team. Baseball as played on this side of the pond has lots in common with rounders, though.

[ERinVA]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounders

[CJ-Rochester]

I didn't realize Canada has two national anthems. The only one I know of is "O Canada". Can one of our friends up north shed some light on this?

[ERinVA]

But they will be playing a US team, so maybe that's what he's talking about.

[porschesrule]

Yes. Whenever Toronto plays any other team in MLB (all the rest of which are in the USA), it is traditional that they do both countries' national anthems.

[Todd]

Sold out game. Oh well. It will be the last sold out game of the season. Anyway, doing the anthems on opening night is a big honour. I suspect they both know that.

Wow, very cool ! It is quite an honor, as baseball's Opening Day is practically a local holiday in many cities. In Kansas City, opening day is the only sell-out crowd we have here all year (I'm going to ours this coming Thursday !) In Toronto, a sell-out crowd would equate to about 49,000 people, so it's certainly among the largest crowds that any Billy has ever performed in front of.

[ERinVA]

Thanks for that. Interesting.... they used the same choreography as that for the Broadway Press Launch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKULLQwJ_xY