Theatre review: Billy, Union Theatre, London
Forget Billy Elliot the musical and remember Billy Liar, the novel by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, template for all northern working-class, aspirational escape stories in the 1960s, the Tom Courtenay movie and, in 1974, this marvellous, resonating and utterly authentic show written by "Bond movie" composer, the late, great John Barry, television comedy writers Dick Clement and Ian La Fresnais (The Likely Lads, P…