Call it the Susan Boyle effect. It's been 22 years since Les Misérables took Broadway by storm, but the tuneful seems to once again be a torrid ticket thanks to the frumpy Scottish church volunteer's jaw-dropping reading of "I Dreamed a Dream" on Britain's Got Talent. Vancouver's Arts Club Theatre Company says constantly ticket sales for its upcoming moulding of Les Miz have tripled in latest days and the show's soundtrack, outset released in 1985, is a sizzling filler on iTunes.
As of yesterday afternoon, the album with the native London hurl was No. 21 on the Top 100 album downloads on iTunes in Canada, where ''I Dreamed a Dream" was also No. 79 on the file of most downloaded singles. On Amazon.com, the soundtrack ranked No. 38 in the bestsellers in music category.
"We're getting defensive anecdotal ground that (Boyle) has indeed had an significance on our sales," Howard Jang, supervision governor of the Arts Club Theatre Company, said. Audience members and judges on the U.K. truth show, which aired April 11, tint a skeptical leer when Boyle walked onstage but rupture into cheers upon hearing her chief dulcet note.
Since the video cutting of the spunky chanteuse on the show hit YouTube at the rear week, it's netted millions of hits. Jang said sock responsibility phones have been industrious with calls from patrons who think Boyle's copy has sparked an incite in Les Miz. Le Capitole de Québec drama in Quebec City is set to file Les Misérables for the right hand year in a row, all out in French, starting June 17. A spokesperson for the dramaturgy says they haven't felt the Boyle punch yet, but are confident it will discover soon.
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