“Forget Spamalot, The Light in the Piazza and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The musical everybody on Broadway is talking about is Billy Elliot, which opened in London last week to ecstatic reviews.” Plans are already underway to bring the show to New York, but there might be some problems with translation from what is clearly a very British show. “Like the movie, it’s set in a working-class coastal town during the miners’ strike of 1984. Much of its power, the critics said, comes from its fierce, left-wing, anti-Thatcher political viewpoint… New York theater people who’ve seen the show say it would lose that power if it were Americanized the way another working-class British movie, The Full Monty, was when it was adapted for Broadway, where the story was set in Buffalo.”