THE GLOVES ARE OFF: Billy Elliot star Drew Minard portrays a boy who goes from boxing to ballet. Credit: PUBLICITY PHOTO

THE GLOVES ARE OFF: Billy Elliot star Drew Minard portrays a boy who goes from boxing to ballet. Credit: PUBLICITY PHOTO

THE GLOVES ARE OFF: Billy Elliot star Drew Minard portrays a boy who goes from boxing to ballet. Credit: PUBLICITY PHOTO
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  • THE GLOVES ARE OFF: Billy Elliot star Drew Minard portrays a boy who goes from boxing to ballet.

Four Billies, three show times and one national tour for a 10-time 2009 Tony award-winning show — it seems like a lot of math to handle for the average 12-year-old, but for Drew Minard — one of the four Billy Elliots on tour in the Broadway touring production of Billy Elliot, the Musical — those numbers are beyond wonderful.

This article appears in Jan 24-30, 2013.