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Porchlight's “Billy Elliot” is Pure Electricity

Michael J. Roberts

"Mr. Seymour is by far the finest Billy I’ve seen, be it on Broadway or several national tours.  He exudes everything one would expect in the character, including a vast blackness of hurt that would come from the loss of a mother (beautifully portrayed by Nicole Cready). When it’s time for his big number, Electricity, in which he explains what dance feels like in his soul, it's his truth as no other Billy has been able to convey to an audience...What director/choreographer Brenda Didier has created for Porchlight’s robust move downtown to the Ruth Page Center For The Arts will live in the history books as one of the great works of Chicago theatre."