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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 01:42:10 JST Aral Balkan

   Les Miserables in concert is on and I’ll be damned if I’m not a blubbering mess after A Little Fall of Rain.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 01:47:33 JST Aral Balkan

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     (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.)

   • Agas Ramirez 🪄 (agasramirez@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 02:39:48 JST Agas Ramirez 🪄

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     @aral mine is Stars. 🥲

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 02:39:48 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Agas Ramirez 🪄

     @agasramirez The bit where that gets me is the orchestral resprise at the end of Javert’s suicide (soliloquy).

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 02:51:36 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Jan Penfrat

     @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.)

   • Jan Penfrat (ilumium@eupolicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 02:51:37 JST Jan Penfrat

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     @aral oh now I really want to see a recording of that performance at 17 :)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 08:01:21 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Jan Penfrat
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     @dizzy_devil @ilumium Thanks, Polly 💕

     It’s one of my favourites too (although I did mess up in one place) ;)

   • dizzy_devil (dizzy_devil@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 08:01:22 JST dizzy_devil

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     • Jan Penfrat

     @aral @ilumium I love Chess dearly, and you nailed it! Bravo.

   • dizzy_devil (dizzy_devil@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 17:59:34 JST dizzy_devil

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     • Jan Penfrat

     @aral @ilumium I wish I could have seen the original cast. My dad says it was incredible.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 17:59:34 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Jan Penfrat
     • dizzy_devil

     @dizzy_devil @ilumium Me too. I mean Murray Head? Elaine Paige? How could it not have been? :)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 19:12:32 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Jan Penfrat

     @ilumium Thanks, Jan 💕

     (Sadly, I don’t at the moment, but maybe someday again, who knows?) :)

   • Jan Penfrat (ilumium@eupolicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 19:12:33 JST Jan Penfrat

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     @aral Excellent, love it! I hope you have a group of friends to make music with often! 🤩