Les Miserables in concert is on and I’ll be damned if I’m not a blubbering mess after A Little Fall of Rain.
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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 01:42:30 JST Aral Balkan -
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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 01:47:49 JST Aral Balkan (I must’ve been 17 or so when I first sang that song on stage. So clearly nothing’s changed till then. Still destroys me every time.)
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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 02:40:09 JST Aral Balkan @agasramirez The bit where that gets me is the orchestral resprise at the end of Javert’s suicide (soliloquy).
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Agas Ramirez 🪄 (agasramirez@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 02:40:10 JST Agas Ramirez 🪄 @aral mine is Stars. 🥲
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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 02:51:54 JST Aral Balkan @ilumium Hah, I think there might be a bad recording of it on a VHS tape somewhere still :)
But in the meanwhile, here’s me singing Pity the Child from Chess at a conference I was opening a little over a decade ago:
https://vimeo.com/165123760#t=113s
(Sadly, the video is tiny but the audio is passable.)
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Jan Penfrat (ilumium@eupolicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 02:51:55 JST Jan Penfrat @aral oh now I really want to see a recording of that performance at 17 :)
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dizzy_devil (dizzy_devil@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 08:01:40 JST dizzy_devil @aral @ilumium I love Chess dearly, and you nailed it! Bravo.
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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 08:01:40 JST Aral Balkan @dizzy_devil @ilumium Thanks, Polly 💕
It’s one of my favourites too (although I did mess up in one place) ;)
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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 17:59:49 JST Aral Balkan @dizzy_devil @ilumium Me too. I mean Murray Head? Elaine Paige? How could it not have been? :)
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dizzy_devil (dizzy_devil@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 17:59:50 JST dizzy_devil @aral @ilumium I wish I could have seen the original cast. My dad says it was incredible.
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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 19:12:49 JST Aral Balkan @ilumium Thanks, Jan 💕
(Sadly, I don’t at the moment, but maybe someday again, who knows?) :)
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Jan Penfrat (ilumium@eupolicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 19:12:50 JST Jan Penfrat @aral Excellent, love it! I hope you have a group of friends to make music with often! 🤩
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