Saturday, January 16, 2010

Broadway Theatre Project and "Billy Elliot"

The Tony award-winning musical Billy Elliot was recently named "Best Musical of the Decade" by Time magazine. What do Broadway Theatre Project and Billy Elliot have in common? The answer: BTP faculty members Joan Lader (Broadway vocal instructor, Grady Bowman (original Broadway company) and Ryan Kasprzak (current Chicago company) as well as alum Greg Graham (Broadway Dance Captain). You can see Ryan in the Chicago production beginning April 10, 2010. The photo is of Broadway Theatre Project alum and Faculty Member Grady Bowman with Billy Elliot's composer, Sir Elton John.