Q: Where can you find an evening of boys dancing in dresses, striking U.K. mine workers clamoring for the death of Margaret Thatcher, and a lyrical invocation of Marx (“from each according to his means / to each according to his needs”), all set to a plodding musical score with all the bombast of a Soviet parade march?

A: Billy Elliot, Elton John’s new musical, now playing on Broadway. Winner of ten Tony awards, including Best Musical.

The best I can think to say is that the young cast members are energetic and talented, and the tunes mercifully forgettable.