Who wrote the music for 'Billy Elliot, The Musical'?
"Billy Elliot the Musical Billy Elliot the Musical is a musical based on the 2000 film ""Billy Elliot"". The music is by Elton John, and the book and lyrics are by Lee Hall, who wrote the film's screenplay. The plot revolves around Billy, a motherless British boy who trades boxing gloves for ballet shoes. The story of his personal struggle and fulfillment are balanced against a counter-story of family and community strife caused by the 1984–85 UK miners' strike in County Durham, in North Eastern England. Hall's screenplay was inspired in part by A. J. Cronin's 1935 novel about a"
"the music in the final show. He said, ""It is more than just taking notes and assigning them to a instrument, but rather bringing emotions to life that are trying to be there. He said, ""I felt like I was hired to put the 'American' in ""An American in Paris""."" Bill Elliott (musician) Bill Elliott (born William F. Elliott; October 2, 1951) is an American pianist, bandleader, Hollywood composer and Broadway orchestrator. In 2015 he won a Tony Award for best orchestration for the Broadway musical, ""An American in Paris"". In 2012 he was nominated for both Tony and Grammy"
"Bill Elliott (musician) Bill Elliott (born William F. Elliott; October 2, 1951) is an American pianist, bandleader, Hollywood composer and Broadway orchestrator. In 2015 he won a Tony Award for best orchestration for the Broadway musical, ""An American in Paris"". In 2012 he was nominated for both Tony and Grammy awards for Broadway's ""Nice Work if You Can Get It"". Elliott won Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations in 2017 for the Broadway Musical ""Bandstand"". Elliott began as a Los Angeles studio musician, recording with artists such as Stevie Nicks, Smokey Robinson, Donna Summer, Bette Midler and others. In his"
"Dean Elliott Dean Elliott (June 29, 1925 – May 6, 1999) was an American television and film composer. Educated at the University of Wisconsin, Elliot's first composing work was for ""Four Star Revue"" an early comedy program which debuted in 1950. From here, he went on to compose for various cartoon series, most prominently ""Mr. Magoo"" in the 1950s, but later he struck an alliance with master Animation director Chuck Jones and went on to compose the scores for many of his ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoons between 1965 and 1967, starting with ""Duel Personality"" and finishing with ""Advance and Be"
"and Tweety Show"". Dean Elliott Dean Elliott (June 29, 1925 – May 6, 1999) was an American television and film composer. Educated at the University of Wisconsin, Elliot's first composing work was for ""Four Star Revue"" an early comedy program which debuted in 1950. From here, he went on to compose for various cartoon series, most prominently ""Mr. Magoo"" in the 1950s, but later he struck an alliance with master Animation director Chuck Jones and went on to compose the scores for many of his ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoons between 1965 and 1967, starting with ""Duel Personality"" and finishing with"
"January 1972 at the age of 57. He had married Judy Rotman in 1940: they had a son John Michael. John Elliot (songwriter) John Elliot (also known as Jack Elliot, John M. Elliot, John M. Elliott and Jack Elliott) (7 May 1914 – 3 January 1972) was an American songwriter, credited with having written over 600 songs for motion pictures. Elliot was born in Gowanda, New York on 7 May 1914. He was educated at Bennett High School in Buffalo, New York and then worked as an entertainer in vaudeville, nightclubs, and on radio. In 1939, he also worked as"
"Billy May Edward William May Jr. (November 10, 1916 – January 22, 2004) was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music for ""The Green Hornet"" (1966), ""The Mod Squad"" (1968), ""Batman"" (with ""Batgirl"" theme, 1967), and ""Naked City"" (1960). He collaborated on films such as ""Pennies from Heaven"" (1981), and orchestrated ""Cocoon"", and """", among others. May also wrote arrangements for many top singers, including Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Anita O'Day, Peggy Lee, Vic Damone, Bobby Darin, Johnny Mercer, Ella Fitzgerald, Jack Jones, Bing Crosby, Sandler and Young, Nancy Wilson, Rosemary Clooney, The Andrews"
"John Elliot (songwriter) John Elliot (also known as Jack Elliot, John M. Elliot, John M. Elliott and Jack Elliott) (7 May 1914 – 3 January 1972) was an American songwriter, credited with having written over 600 songs for motion pictures. Elliot was born in Gowanda, New York on 7 May 1914. He was educated at Bennett High School in Buffalo, New York and then worked as an entertainer in vaudeville, nightclubs, and on radio. In 1939, he also worked as a theatre reporter for the Chicago edition of ""Variety"". He began to write songs in 1940, moved to Hollywood in"
"in 1953. He and the pastor, who was also from Northeastern Iowa, were very close friends. Willson died of heart failure in 1984 at the age of 82. His funeral in Mason City included mourners dressed in ""Music Man"" costumes and a barbershop quartet which sang ""Lida Rose"". Willson is buried at the Elmwood-St. Joseph Municipal Cemetery in Mason City. Meredith Willson Robert Reiniger Meredith Willson (May 18, 1902 – June 15, 1984) was an American flautist, composer, conductor, musical arranger, bandleader and playwright, best known for writing the book, music, and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical ""The Music"
"Meredith Willson Robert Reiniger Meredith Willson (May 18, 1902 – June 15, 1984) was an American flautist, composer, conductor, musical arranger, bandleader and playwright, best known for writing the book, music, and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical ""The Music Man"". He wrote three other Broadway musicals, composed symphonies and popular songs, and his film scores were twice nominated for Academy Awards. Willson was born in Mason City, Iowa, to John David Willson and Rosalie Reiniger Willson, and he had a brother two years his senior, John Cedrick, and a sister 12 years his senior, the children's author Dixie Willson."
"trailer, published by HarperCollins, was produced and directed by Stephen Daldry. Ko was honored by President Barack Obama at The White House on 28 May 2013 for his Broadway and literary accomplishments as an influential Asian-American in the Arts, along with Amy Tan and Lisa Ling. Alex Ko Nicholas Alexander Ko (born February 3, 1996) is an American actor, dancer and singer. He won the title role in ""Billy Elliot the Musical"" on Broadway in 2009. Ko is the middle child of three children. He was born and raised in Iowa City, Iowa. Ko's father, Cheukman Sam Ko, was born"
"well as ""Your Song"" as a duet with Billy Joel. In August 2003, he scored his fifth UK number one single when ""Are You Ready for Love"" topped the charts. Returning to musical theatre, John composed music for a West End production of ""Billy Elliot the Musical"" in 2005 with playwright Lee Hall. Opening to strong reviews, the show won four Laurence Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical. The eleventh longest-running musical in West End history, the London production ran through April 2016, after 4,566 performances. ""Billy Elliot"" has been seen by over 5.25 million people in London and nearly"
"Stephen Schwartz, Dir. Joe Mantello). He conducted the award-winning musical ""Billy Elliot"" (Music by Sir Elton John, Dir. Stephen Daldry) on Broadway (New York) in 2009, and subsequently was Conductor and Music Director for new productions of ""Billy Elliot"" in Chicago and Toronto, The Netherlands, Korea, Japan and several regional productions in the North America (2009–2018) Colin Welford Colin Welford (Born Manchester, England 1967) is a composer for stage and screen, conductor, orchestrator and music director based in the United States. He holds a Master's degree in Music from Oxford University, England (Organ Scholar, Brasenose College), and pursued graduate study"
"20s he was the pianist in Bonnie Raitt's band. His career in contemporary pop music gradually and serendipitously turned toward orchestration of films, television, and then Broadway musicals. Some of the films that feature Elliott's music include ""Dick Tracy"", ""Nixon"", ""Contact"", ""Independence Day"" and ""Wedding Crashers"". He has written music for Disney's video sequels to ""Aladdin"", ""Beauty and the Beast"" and ""The Lion King"", and for the television shows ""Northern Exposure"", ""Ellen"" and ""Gilmore Girls"". At age 42 he formed ""The Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra"", which has performed on movie soundtracks and on record albums for prominent artists. As of"
"Martin Koch (orchestrator) Martin Koch is a British music supervisor, orchestrator, conductor, and composer who won the 2009 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations and was a co-winner of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for ""Billy Elliot the Musical"", sharing the honor with Michael Starobin and Tom Kitt of ""Next to Normal"". Koch studied at the Royal College of Music. He has served as the musical supervisor for numerous productions, including ""Cats"", ""Moby Dick"", ""Chicago"", ""Blondel"", ""Follies"", and ""Into the Woods"" in the West End; several international tours of ""Les Misérables""; and the United Kingdom tour of ""Martin"
"Bill Conti William Conti (born April 13, 1942) is an American composer and conductor best known for his film scores, including ""Rocky"" (and four of its sequels), ""For Your Eyes Only"", ""Dynasty"", and ""The Right Stuff"", which earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Score. He also received nominations in the Best Original Song category for ""Gonna Fly Now"" from ""Rocky"" and for the title song of ""For Your Eyes Only"". He was the musical director at the Academy Awards a record nineteen times. Conti, an Italian American, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Lucetta and"
"Elmer Bernstein Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor who is best known for his film scores. In a career that spanned more than five decades, he composed ""some of the most recognizable and memorable themes in Hollywood history"", including over 150 original movie scores, as well as scores for nearly 80 television productions. Examples of his widely popular and critically acclaimed works are scores to ""The Magnificent Seven"", ""The Ten Commandments"", ""The Great Escape"", ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", ""Ghostbusters"", ""The Black Cauldron"", ""Airplane!"", ""The Rookies"", ""Cape Fear"", ""Animal House"", and ""The Age of"
"with three bonus tracks from ""Billy Elliot the Musical"", as well as a DVD featuring nine tracks from the album performed live in Atlanta. The song ""Electricity"" from the musical was also released as a single in June 2005. It rose to No. 4 in the UK. It was dedicated to the memory of Gus and Sheila Dudgeon, John's original producer and his wife, who were killed in a car accident in 2002. Some editions of the album included bonus - two videos for the two first singles (""Answer in the Sky"" and ""All That I'm Allowed""). All music composed"
"the film 'Billy Elliot'. Maidman's work as a musician, producer or writer, has since featured on hundreds of recordings, working with artists including Joan Armatrading, David Sylvian, The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Ian Dury, Shakespears Sister, The Proclaimers, Paul Brady, Sam Brown, Gerry Rafferty, Annie Whitehead, Robert Wyatt, Sniff 'n the Tears, Loudon Wainwright, and Murray Head amongst others. Notable successes include the Shakespears Sister double platinum album 'Hormonally Yours', (which spawned the single 'Stay', number one in several countries and certified gold in the US), The Proclaimers' 'Letter from America' (certified gold), and producing Paul Brady's 'Back to the Centre'"
"Allyn Ferguson Allyn Malcolm Ferguson Jr. (October 18, 1924 – June 23, 2010) was an American composer, best known for the themes for 1970s television programs ""Barney Miller"" and ""Charlie's Angels"" (1976-1981), which he co-wrote with Jack Elliott. In its obituary, ""Variety"" called him ""among the most prolific composers of TV-movie scores in the past 40 years"". Ferguson was born in San Jose, California on October 18, 1924. He started playing the trumpet when he was four years old and began playing piano at seven. After graduating from San Jose State University, he traveled to Paris, where he studied with"
"Kiril Kulish Kiril Jacob Kulish (born February 16, 1994) is an American actor, dancer, and singer who is best known for portraying the title role in the original American production of ""Billy Elliot the Musical"". Kulish was born in San Diego, California on February 16, 1994. His parents, Raisa Kulish and KIrk Kulish are immigrants from the Ukraine. His older brother, Victor, is a singer/songwriter and recording engineer, and his older sister Beata is a TV/film producer. He grew up speaking Russian, Ukrainian, and English. He started studying ballet at age five and ballroom dancing at age 8. He studied"
"Kiril Kulish Kiril Jacob Kulish (born February 16, 1994) is an American actor, dancer, and singer who is best known for portraying the title role in the original American production of ""Billy Elliot the Musical"". Kulish was born in San Diego, California on February 16, 1994. His parents, Raisa Kulish and KIrk Kulish are immigrants from the Ukraine. His older brother, Victor, is a singer/songwriter and recording engineer, and his older sister Beata is a TV/film producer. He grew up speaking Russian, Ukrainian, and English. He started studying ballet at age five and ballroom dancing at age 8. He studied"
"Alonzo Elliot Alonzo ""Zo"" Elliot (May 25, 1891 – June 25, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Born in Manchester, New Hampshire, Elliot was educated at St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire, Phillips Academy (Andover, Massachusetts), Yale University, Cambridge University, and Columbia Law School. He also studied music privately with Nadia Boulanger and Leonard Bernstein, among others. His best-known composition is ""There's a Long Long Trail A-Winding"", a popular song from the era of World War I. Elliott wrote the music, and Stoddard King (1889–1933), Elliot's chief song collaborator, wrote the lyrics, when they were seniors at Yale."
"""Curtains"", ""Wicked"", ""Sweet Smell of Success"", ""Miss Saigon"", ""Mary Poppins"", ""Ragtime"", ""Oliver!"", ""South Pacific"", ""The Three Musketeers"", ""Crazy for You"" and ""Carousel"". William David Brohn William David ""Bill"" Brohn (March 30, 1933 – May 11, 2017) was an American arranger and orchestrator, best known for his scores of musicals such as ""Miss Saigon"", ""Ragtime"" and ""Wicked"". He won the Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for ""Ragtime"" and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations three times. His work was eclectic, orchestrating many different styles of music. His modern scores are known for their keyboard writing for the orchestra pit,"
"Edward White (composer) Edward George White (1910–1994) was a British composer of light music whose compositions including ""The Runaway Rocking-Horse"" (1946), ""Paris Interlude"" (1952), ""Puffin' Billy"" (1952) and ""The Telegoons"" (1963) became familiar as radio and television theme tunes. White was born in London, and was largely self-taught. He became a violinist in a trio and various dance bands, performing also on saxophone and clarinet. He became known as an arranger of music and, after service in the RAF during World War II, he ran a ballroom orchestra at the Grand Spa Hotel in Bristol. ""Puffin' Billy"" (1952) is perhaps"
"cast includes Elliott Hanna in the title role with Ruthie Henshall as Mrs. Wilkinson, Deka Walmsley as Billy’s dad, Chris Grahamson as Tony and Ann Emery as Grandma. Further cast included Claudia Bradley as Dead Mam, Howard Crossley as George, David Muscatt as Mr Braithwaite, Alan Mehdizadeh as Big Davey, Liam Mower as Older Billy and David Stoller as Posh Dad. Billy Youth Theatre was a countrywide scheme as part of which participating schools and youth groups were given the opportunity to stage their own production of the musical. ""Billy Elliot"" writer Lee Hall, together with Martin Koch (Musical Supervision"
"Walter Murphy Walter Anthony Murphy, Jr. (born December 19, 1952) is an American composer, arranger, pianist, musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for the instrumental ""A Fifth of Beethoven"", a disco adaptation of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony which topped the charts in 1976 and was featured on the ""Saturday Night Fever"" soundtrack. Further classical–disco fusions followed, such as ""Flight '76"", ""Rhapsody in Blue"", ""Toccata and Funk in 'D' Minor"", ""Bolero"", and ""Mostly Mozart"", but were not as successful. In a career spanning nearly five decades, Murphy has written music for numerous films and TV shows, including ""The Tonight"
"Billy Joel William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and pianist. Commonly nicknamed the ""Piano Man"", he has been making music since the 1960s, releasing popular albums throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. He was born in 1949 in The Bronx, New York, and grew up on Long Island, New York, both places that influenced his music. After dropping out of high school, Joel took part in two short-lived bands, The Hassles and Attila, before signing a record deal with Family Productions and kicking off a solo career in 1971 with his first release, ""Cold"
"Bill Carey (songwriter) Bill Carey (1916 - January 27, 2004) was an American songwriter, actor, singer and author. Carey was born in 1916 in Hollister, California. Carey acted in ""Roberta"", ""Old Man Rhythm"", ""Freshman Love"", ""A Yank at Oxford"", ""Something to Sing About"", and ""Campus Confessions"". Carey was a lyricist for Eva Cassidy, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole, George Michael, Joni Mitchell, Frank Sinatra, and Sarah Vaughn. He wrote the words to ""Who Wouldn't Love You?"". Carey had two sons with his first wife, Leona Olsen. His second wife was Ruth Hill Gibian. They resided in Laguna Beach,"
"just north of New York City. Rob Morsberger Robert E. ""Rob"" Morsberger (August 9, 1959 – June 2, 2013) was an American singer-songwriter and classically trained composer. As a sideman/arranger, his credits include Patti Smith, the Grammy-winning Boardwalk Empire soundtrack album, My Morning Jacket, Crash Test Dummies, Marshall Crenshaw, Willie Nile, Jules Shear, Loudon Wainwright III, and more. Morsberger was born in Ohio, raised in Oxford, England and studied composition at the University of Edinburgh. He composed music for PBS programs including Masterpiece Theatre, NOVA and Frontline. He was composer for the award-winning PBS series NOVAscienceNOW for its first five"
"Bill Russell (lyricist) Bill Russell (born 1949) is an American librettist and lyricist. Among his stage musicals are ""Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens"" and ""Side Show"", which was nominated for the Tony Award as Best Musical. Russell's first musical to be produced is ""Fortune"", which ran Off-Broadway at the Actors' Plahouse from April 27, 1980 to November 23, 1980. Ronald Melrose wrote the music, with Russell writing the book and lyrics. The musical director and arranger was Janet Hood; they have gone on to write several musicals together. The musical concerned four performers who were headed to be"
"Award ceremonies. On April 22, 2008, at the LSU Union Theatre at Louisiana State University, Conti was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. Bill Conti William Conti (born April 13, 1942) is an American composer and conductor best known for his film scores, including ""Rocky"" (and four of its sequels), ""For Your Eyes Only"", ""Dynasty"", and ""The Right Stuff"", which earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Score. He also received nominations in the Best Original Song category for ""Gonna Fly Now"" from ""Rocky"" and for the title song of ""For Your Eyes Only"". He was the"
"of cancer. The University holds his papers in its libraries. Arthur Kreutz Arthur R. Kreutz (July 25, 1906 in La Crosse, Wisconsin – March 12, 1991 in Oxford, Mississippi) was an American composer. He composed the ""Paul Bunyan Suite"", the ""Dixie Concerto"", the score to Martha Graham's 1942 ballet ""Land Be Bright"", and ""Symphonic Blues"" (for orchestra) (1947); some of his orchestral pieces were played by the New York Philharmonic, with whom he appeared at times as a guest conductor. Among his other works is a 1954 opera about the University Greys of the University of Mississippi. Kreutz taught from"