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This boy's life: choreographer Peter Darling tells Billy Elliot's story on Broadway.
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November 1, 2008|
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Peter Darling puts on a pair of red leather boxing gloves and spars with himself in the mirror of a dance studio above Times Square. He looks more like an athlete--a boxer even--than a dancer. But this month, it's Darling's choreography that packs a punch on Broadway.
Billy Elliot tells the story of an 11year-old English boy who wants to be a ballet dancer. He fights his family's expectations--and society's--to prove his worth onstage. As he struggles, his family becomes caught up in Britain's 1980s miners strike. First a popular ...
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