Billy Elliot, The Musical won 10 Tony Awards, including one for best musical, at the 2009 Tony Award presentations in New York Sunday. The musical, based on the 2000 feature film, Billy Elliot, had more nominations than any other Broadway production, with 15. A trio of juvenile performers, David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik, and Kiril Kulish, won the Tony for best lead actor in a musical for Billy Elliot, The Musical.

Billy Elliot the Musical won 10 Drama Desk Awards, including the prize for outstanding musical, in a ceremony in New York. The 54th annual Drama Desk Awards presentation took place at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Manhattan's Lincoln Center Sunday.

Billy Elliot the Musical won the Outer Critics Circle Award for outstanding new Broadway musical Monday. The show about a young boy from a working-class community who pursues a dance career against all odds also won the prizes for outstanding new score, choreography, lighting design, director of a musical

The stage adaptation of the feel-good movie Billy Elliot was nominated for 15 Tony Awards, including one for Best Musical, in New York Tuesday. The show about a young boy who loves to dance is tied with The Producers for the most Tony nominations ever.

By Elysa Gardner NEW YORK -- The producers of Billy Elliot: The Musical (*** out of four) must be pinching themselves. Sure, this adaptation of the 2000 film about a coal miner's son struggling to realize his dreams of ballet glory is already an established hit in London.