Only if you’ve been living under a rock for the last week is how you could have avoided hearing about or seeing Susan Boyle singing on Britain’s Got Talent, but if you haven’t, well, here’s the YouTube sensation.
Now everyone from Oprah, Larry King, Ashton Kutcher , Patti Lapone and the American morning news shows have mentioned her and the amazing reaction she got from Simon Cowell as a judge of the show, and the rest of the nearly ( as I write this) 23 million viewers who have watched her performance.
Sure, I love Les Miserables, it’s one of my top three all time favorite musicals, I think I’ve seen it on Broadway and touring about a half a dozen times or so. and the song, I Dreamed A Dream is a musical masterpiece able to evoke tears from myself and many others, but Susan’s performance is… just unbelievable!!
I think the comments written on the numerous related YouTube postings are another of the true amazing story’s here. The countless number of people that have said her voice made them cry. I can admit it, I sure did, and I have over and over again.. how can that be? what is it that can make literally millions of people who don’t know this woman from Adam sob at the sound of her voice, something to think about now ain’t it?? Please take some time to scroll through some of the comments, you wont be able to read them all , last time i looked there were over 182,000 in just a few days.
In short, her amazing theatrical performance aside I think the greater story to be told and lesson learned from this is how my faith in mankind is somewhat renewed by the fact that so many of us do now realize that “you can’t judge a book by it’s cover”, and many .. if not all of us are guilty of doing that exact thing when we see someone and they make their first impression on us. let’s hope we continue to remember that as we go on through life long after we have a whole stack of Susan’s CD’s sitting on our shelves.
…and now, On With the Show !