{"id":147114,"date":"2025-09-19T09:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/147114\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:24:07","slug":"billy-elliot-writer-lee-hall-says-story-still-growing-25-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/147114\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall says story still growing 25 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The film&#8217;s cultural impact was immediate, grossing more than \u00a370m worldwide. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2005, Hall teamed up with Elton John to adapt it into a stage musical. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That show went on to win 10 Tony Awards, four Olivier Awards and continues to tour globally, from Broadway to Seoul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is one of those amazing things that keeps growing,&#8221; Hall said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That is the thing about art. It can be really specific and really local but can have this universal, wide appeal and Billy Elliot is one of those things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So what about the film itself \u2013 a movie that moved millions and was named by the BFI as one of the greatest British films of all time?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I haven&#8217;t seen the film in a long time,&#8221; Hall admitted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But I have seen the musical hundreds of times&#8230;in all different ways, in all different nationalities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s thrilling to see. I saw a Japanese production with kabuki actors that was just incredible \u2013 it had me bawling my eyes out!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The film&#8217;s cultural impact was immediate, grossing more than \u00a370m worldwide. In 2005, Hall teamed up with Elton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-147114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}