Thinking of my last post, where I typed up my thoughts of my job, my life, my future, etc., this new post is actually quite apropos. In case you haven’t heard about Susan Boyle, yet, now you will. Ms. Boyle is a 47-year-old woman from the UK. She said she’s never had a boyfriend and has never been kissed. And she is fulfilling a promise to her departed mother to be a contestant on Britain’s Got Talent.
Her appearance is not typical of a singer of any type, and I, as the judges and audience did at first, judged her by her appearance before she opened her mouth. Shame on you, Breagha! She has a very good voice, and it blew us all away.
In this, her stage performance, she sings the song “I Dreamed a Dream” from Claude Michel Schoenberg and Alain Boublil’s hit West End and Tony-Award winning musical, Les Miserables. The character who sings the song, Fantine, is a young woman whose lover leaves her destitute and pregnant with her daughter, Cosette. In this song, Fantine laments her situation and reminisces about the dream she once had, and how it has been destroyed.
I congratulate Ms. Boyle on her performance and her courage to live her dream. Well done.
“I Dreamed a Dream,” as performed by Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talent
