NOW Magazine, an independent weekly entertainment paper in Toronto, recently ran a rave review of the above-titled show.  It gushed:

BILLY ELLIOT IS ONE OF THE BEST NEW MUSICALS OF THE MILLENNIUM

The review begins:

Based on its opening night reaction, Billy Elliot The Musical is here to stay for a good long time. In decades of theatregoing, I’ve never seen so many standing ovations, including one that literally stopped the show midway through the second act. But guess what? They were all deserved. This is one of the best new musicals of the millennium.

It’s based on Stephen Daldrey’s 2000 film about a working class boy whose dreams of becoming a ballet dancer are set against the grim reality of his northern England mining community. The setting is 1984, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s threats to close the state-owned mines have forced the workers to strike.

I’m not going to plagiarize the whole thing – if you want to read it, it can be found here.

Amid the ooh-ing and aahh-ing, one line caught my eye:

“[They] cleverly integrate the theme of personal expression and freedom into several numbers, including a brilliant setpiece about crossdressing that needs to be seen to be believed.”

I have yet to see this show, but I am quite interested in finding out more about anything about CDs that attracts words like those.