I Dreamed a Dream

Synopsis

Charting Susan's climb from humble beginnings in a working class town in Scotland, to a standing ovation at her audition for 'Britain's Got Talent', through to her global super stardom, I Dreamed A Dream © features many of the hit songs from Susan's multi-platinum selling albums. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, it will make you dare to dream... but most of all prove that dreams really do come true.

Our Review:

20 June 2012

I Dreamed a Dream is about the rags to riches experience of the popular singer Susan Boyle.
 
Long before her appearance on Britain’s Got Talent, she dreamed a dream of becoming a singer as successful as Elaine Page.  For 47 years the girl deemed ‘simple’ because she was starved of oxygen at birth, dreamed that dream from her parents’ council house.  
 
She dreamed through her first communion, through singing lessons and through a karaoke night at a pub where glimmers of her genius showed through when she sang "Someone to Watch Over Me."  She needed a watchful angel when auditioning for the TV show that changed her life, when, in a very amusing scene, she voiced "Stuck in the Middle with You" along with countless other hopefuls.
 
Her journey is described not by Susan herself but by actress Elaine C Smith who co-wrote the show...

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Latest User Review

ali - 22 June 2012:

I enjoyed this moving show that had me both laughing and crying. Elaine as Susan was brilliant! I felt the ending was slightly weak (though, as 'susan' said, hers is a story with a beginning and a middle and as of yet, no end), all that was missing was the appearance of the real star at the end. I was disappointed but not altogether surprised at her non appearance, I so really would love to hear her sing. Was sad to hear that she'd appeared the previous night and not ours....

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