Billy Elliot the Musical Live Page #5

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dressing up in women's clothing.

Is it sinful if you're blue

To cheer up the place?

Ah!

What is wrong with dressing up

in satin and lace?

Oh, no!

Get some earrings, some mascara

Heels and a fan

Pretty soon you will start to feel

A different man

Ol, baby!

What the hell's wrong

with expressing yourself?

Being who you want to be?

Howay, join in.

Will anybody die if you put on a dress?

Who the hell cares if

your blusher's a mess?

Start a new fashion

Buck all the trends

Emphasise integrity

Shake them shoulders, Billy.

Shut up, you puff.

'Cause what the hell is wrong

with expressing yourself?

For wanting to be me?

What the hell's wrong with wearing a dress?

Being who you want to be?

Who the hell is it you try to impress?

All you have to do is learn to care less

Start a new fashion

Buck all the trends

Billy, sing something to me.

Whoo!

'Cause what the hell is wrong

with expressing yourself?

For trying to be free

Sing it, sister!

If you wanna be a dancer, dance

If you wanna be a miner, mine

If you want to dress like somebody else

Fine, fine

Let's get these dresses dancin'!

It's not a big statement

It's not a weird act

Just a good idea at the time

We'll not complain about your boring life

If you'll just leave me to mine

If you wanna be a dancer, dance

If you wanna be a miner, mine

Shoes!

- I'm gonna beat you, Michael.

- No, you're not.

Yes, I am.

- One shoe.

- That's one shoe!

- Oh, no, two shoes. Michael wins!

- You cheat!

Come on! Loser!

Push!

Follow me!

Arms!

- Keep up, Billy!

- I'm trying, Michael!

Shimmy shake!

We gotta do something better than that.

Oh, like what?

- Like this! Six, seven, eight!

- Whoa!

Show time!

Smile!

- So what do you think, dancin' boy?

- Not bad.

You ain't seen nothin' yet!

One, two, three, four.

Here they come!

What's that?

Me dresses!

Come on, Nana.

Trousers?

Women's clothing only!

Scene change!

From the top!

Oh, yeah.

Whoo-hoo!

Five, six, seven, eight!

Everyone is different

It's the natural state

It's a fact, it's plain to see

The world's Grey enough

without making it worse

What we need is individuality

Go on, then!

Finish!

What are you doing with that?

Naught.

Well, put that back where it belongs.

- This has got nothing to do with you.

- Hasn't it?

You're going nowhere with that.

Don't you tell me what to do.

Just put it back, son.

Look, this isn't

Camberwick f***in' Green, Dad, man.

If you want to go down there

and get the sh*t kicked out of you,

that's up to you.

Oh, Che Guevara.

Don't be so bloody stupid, man.

There are 2,000 police on the doorstep.

Argh!

Did you see

what they done to Harry Robson?

They broke both his bloody legs, man.

Yeah, so the last thing we need

is you in hospital as well.

Please, just put it back.

Put it back.

Make us.

I said, put it back.

What are you going to do

about it, like? Hit us?

Come on, then.

Come on!

No.

You've been a complete waste of space

since me mum died.

Useless piece of sh*t!

Stop it!

Stop it, please.

What the bloody hell are you looking at?

Oh, hello.

I thought you weren't going to show.

I had to wait until me dad went out.

Well, better late than never.

Come on, best get started.

Have you brought your special things

for the dance?

Well, I've brought a few

bits of stuff and that,

but I didn't really know what you meant.

Well, let's see, then.

Rubik's Cube.

- TV theme tunes?

- Yeah.

Mmm!

Baked beans.

- What's that?

- It's a packet of soup, miss.

What the bloody hell's that for?

I don't know.

Billy, I asked you to bring things

that mean something to you.

I know.

Well, how the hell am I

going to make up a dance

about baked beans and a cup-a-soup?

Oh, I don't know.

At the risk of being totally boring,

dancing is as much about you

discovering things about yourself

as it is about discovering about dancing.

Do you understand?

What?

Look, it's not just about the steps.

It's all about you.

Why does it have to be about me for?

Jesus Christ.

'Cause I say so.

What's this?

It's a letter.

I can see it's a letter.

You can open it if you want.

Thank God for that.

The suspense was killing me.

It's from me mum.

Your mum?

She wrote it for us for when I was 18,

but I opened it a few years early.

I see.

You can read it if you like.

Read it out.

"Dear Billy, I must seem

a distant memory...

"Which is..."

"...which is probably a good thing.

"And it will have been a long..."

"Long time.

"And I will have missed you growing

"And I'll have missed you crying

"And I'll have missed you laugh

"Missed your stomping and your shouting

"I'll have missed telling you off

"But please, Billy

"Know that I was always there

"I was with you through everything

"And please, Billy..."

"Know that I will always be

"Proud to have known you

"Proud that you were mine

"Proud in everything

"And you must promise me this, Billy

- "In everything you do..."

- In everything you do...

Always be yourself, Billy

And you always will be true

Don't go.

And I'll have missed you growing

And I'll have missed you crying

And I'll have missed you laugh

- Missed your stomping and your shouting

- "Missed your stomping and your shouting

- I'll have missed telling you off

- "I'll have missed telling you off

- But please, Billy

- "But please, Billy

- Know that I was always there

- "Know that I was always there

- I was with you through everything

- "I was with you through everything

- And please, Billy

- "And please, Billy

- Know that I will always be

- "Know that I will always be

- Proud to have known you

- "Proud to have known you"

Love you forever

Love you forever

"Mum."

She must have been a very special woman.

No.

She was just me mum.

Right.

Oh, Mr Braithwaite!

I thought you'd abandoned us.

I just got a little detained

at the Rose and Crown.

What's he doing here?

Well, you're going to need something

to dance to, aren't you, you little wanker?

You see,

there are two main theories about dance.

One is that it's basically technical,

something you learn from the outside

and then repeat.

Or it's a very personal expression

that you realise from within.

What's she on about?

Well, basically, it was all down to

Diaghilev, who ran the Ballets Russes,

who wanted to revolutionise what had

become a purely decorative medium

and reconnect it with dance's chthonic

roots as a primordial means of expression.

Eh?

He did a BTEC

at Sunderland Poly.

What Mr Braithwaite means is that

you have to release your inner caveman,

and everything else will

just flow naturally.

Hit it, Mr Braithwaite!

We weren't born to stand still

Ain't a question of will

What are you doing? Miss!

Gotta move, it's a fact

We were born to react

We weren't made to behave

Like we will in the grave

Join in!

When the music is played

Oh, the soul will be swayed

And your feet, they will move

As if only to prove

Whoo!

That it wasn't by chance

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