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It's family. You're part of the Les Mis alumni, you're family. And being in here, catching
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up with Cameron, Claude Michel, you know, this is where it started for me. It's phenomenal
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There's people here who've been in it over the sort of 39 years, all over the world
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So it really is a coming together of this sort of university of Les Mis
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I'm surrounded by people I've admired since I was, you know, younger than I am now
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The talent is like insane and I'm so grateful that I get to be a part of it. It's incredible
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Every member of the audience that I've met in the past have a completely different take
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on it, or they take something from it personally. This is going to be a lot of people's first experience of Les Mis because the 10th anniversary
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concert was mine. I watched it over and over again. That's an incredible introduction
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to the show when it's a concert and the music speaks for itself. As soon as you hear the first chords, you know, bum bum, everybody knows. You get goosebumps
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every time. I have to pinch myself. We're doing it yet again on probably the most ambitious scale
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that's ever been done for any musical. I don't think any musical has ever traversed the world
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in a concert version of spectacular as this. It's going to be huge. It's going to be gorgeous. It's about the music and the storytelling
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going back to the pure original score. I quite literally grew up watching videos of some of these gentlemen that I'm now getting
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to sing with. I grew up in a small town, so that was sort of my access. For theatre in
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this industry, it's nothing short of a full circle moment for me. We have to tell that story, which is the best story of musical theatre. And I think it's
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going to be unlike anything anyone has seen. Everything from the orchestra to the cast to the lighting. You've got to come and see it
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I think it's about hope, it's about not giving up, and it's about love. And that's like a
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transcending topic. It touches everyone's soul in a certain way. And it doesn't matter how old or how young
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you are, everyone gets something out of it. I didn't think this was ever going to happen, though
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I didn't either. I can't believe it. The name is, but like it's never been done before
