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Billy Elliot

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Friday night Michelle (my sister) and I went to The Paramount in Seattle, WA to watch Billy Elliot !  I laughed, cried, gasped, and felt exhilarated!  The talent on the stage was absolutely amazing, brilliant, and I wanted an ENCORE! ENCORE! ENCORE!  There are four Billy Elliot's touring.  Friday night we had  Lex Ishimoto  and he blew me away!!!  His talent was beyond my comprehension and at such a young age.  I was truly inspired. After the show, Jeff Kready , who played Tony (Billy's brother), let us go on the stage and back stage!! WOW, what a treat!  Jeff is a friend of my friend Alisa Lybbert , who I met in Skagway. It's unreal how small the stage really is.  It appears so big when you are in the audience, but it's much smaller in real life.  The mechanics of back stage are so complicated as well.  Jeff talked to us about how things are built at an angle to create dimensions and objects to appear bigger, etc...  He showed us the props, and explained to us how qui