Young Aussie dancer Dayton Tavares, in the US to star in the musical Billy Elliot, is being hailed as the next Hugh Jackman.
Starring in the New York production of smash-hit musical Billy Elliot is all in a day’s work for down-to-earth Sydney boy Dayton Tavares.
While the talented 13-year-old is the youngest Australian to land a lead role on Broadway, he’s also happy that, as far as he’s concerned, nothing beats the pizza in the Big Apple.
“That’s my favourite thing that I’ve eaten here!” he says. “They have a sausage pizza with cheese and tomato that’s really good.”
For Dayton’s proud mum, Sharon, talk that her only son is being hailed as the next Hugh Jackman brings tears to her eyes.
“That’s a pretty big thing to say,” she says. “What an honour! I get a bit speechless and choked up when I hear something like that.”
After taking the Australian theatre world by storm for two years in the Melbourne and Sydney productions of Billy Elliot, Dayton was stunned to receive a call from the creators of the Tony Award-winning show inviting him to Broadway.
“It was surreal when we got that call,” Sharon recalls. “It still is a bit surreal to think he’s performing on Broadway. Dayton said, ‘Mum, you’ll have to pinch me!’”
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