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In November last year, to celebrate five years in the West End, the producers of Billy Elliot the Musical launched Billy Youth Theatre, a new initiative providing schools and youth groups around the country with the opportunity to perform their own productions of the internationally award-winning show. Since the launch 115 groups and over 5,000 young people from Stirling to Southampton have taken part in the Billy Youth Theatre which was open to schools and established youth groups in England, Scotland and Wales, and to performers aged 10-19. The groups chosen to appear in the Billy Youth Theatre West End Gala are Ariel Young Actors (Burgess Hill, Sussex), Canon Slade School (Bolton, Greater Manchester), City Youth Theatre Company (Hove, East Sussex), CODYS Productions (Warrington, Cheshire), Coomeshead College & King Edward VI Community College (Newton Abbot, Devon), Polka Dot Academy (Spalding, Lincolnshire), Sandbach School Theatre (Sandbach, Cheshire), Scottish School of Musical Theatre (Motherwell, Scotland), Shotton Hall Theatre School (Pertlee County Durham), Stagecoach Oxford (Bicester, Oxfordshire), Stagecoach Theatre Arts Darlington and Yarm (County Durham), STP Musicals (Southampton, Hampshire), Youth On Stage Theatre Company (Bowers Gifford, Essex) and West Glamorgan Youth Theatre (Swansea, Wales).