The original production of Billy Elliot the Musical, with Elton John’s score, returns to London for a 25-week season at the Adelphi, ten years after it left the Victoria Palace.
Billy Elliot the Musical, winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Musical, returns to the West End at the Adelphi Theatre on the Strand on Friday 12 February 2027. The 25-week season runs to Saturday 31 July.
The show adapts the 2000 film. Lee Hall, who wrote the screenplay, wrote the book and lyrics, and Elton John wrote the music.
It is set in a northern mining town during the strike of 1984 and 1985. Billy, a boy sent to boxing lessons, finds his way into the ballet class instead.
The production opened at the Victoria Palace Theatre in 2005. It closed there in April 2016 after 4,600 performances, when the theatre shut for refurbishment.
This is the original production, back in London ten years after it left. It has been seen by almost 12 million people across five continents, and it plays the Adelphi between dates on a UK tour.
The West End company includes Lesley Joseph as Grandma, with Annette McLaughlin, Deka Walmsley and Jack Bandeira.