Additional casting for the Chicago production of Billy Elliot the Musical has been announced. Tony Award nominee, Emily Skinner, will play the role of Mrs. Wilkinson.
Emily Skinner was nominated for a Best Actress TONY Award for the Original Broadway Production of SIDE SHOW. Other Broadway credits include the original casts of Jekyll & Hyde; James Joyce's The Dead (with Christopher Walken), The Full Monty; Dinner at Eight (Outer Critics Circle nomination, Drama League Award). NATIONAL TOUR: Disney's On the Record. OFF-BROADWAY: Jerry Springer The Opera (with Harvey Kietel) at Carnegie Hall; City Center's Encores: No Strings, Pardon My English, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Broadway Bash; Actor's Fund performances of Dreamgirls and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; leading roles at the WPA Theater, Playwright's Horizons, Manhattan Theater Club, York Theater, The Paramount Theater at Madison Square Garden. REGIONAL: leading roles at The Kennedy Center, Signature Theatre, McCarter, Long Wharf, The Old Globe, Ford's Theater, St. Louis MUNY, TheaterVirgina, Hangar Theater. IN CONCERT: numerous Broadway By The Year concerts at Town Hall (as director and performer); New York Pops at Carnegie Hall; Pittsburgh Symphony; Virginia Symphony; Jerusalem Symphony; Merkin Hall; Avery Fisher Hall; Symphony Space. RECORDINGS: countless cast albums and audio books; Duets; Unsuspecting Hearts; Skinner/Ripley Raw at Town Hall (all with Alice Ripley); Elegies for Angels; Punks and Raging Queens; The Stephen Sondheim Album; Wall to Wall Sondheim; Believe: The Songs of The Sherman Brothers; The Stephen Schwartz Album; animated feature Anastasia; and her self-titled solo CD (www.fynsworthalley.com).
Billy Elliot will begin preview performances March 18, 2010 at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre. Opening night is April 11, 2010. Tickets can be purchased at ticketmaster.com.