Susan Boyle Fan Club and News

I’ve tried to find a polite way to say it, after receiving the link from nine or ten friends, some of them show biz professionals, but the truth is I’m just not that thrilled. I want to say to my friends, really? Close your eyes, listen, think! It’s an adequate voice, singing on pitch, with a microphone to make it bigger, with no particular nuance or expression, not even a so-called “legit” head voice, but a belting voice.

As a veteran — okay, old — American stage actress, in particular, having spent a number of years on the road with the national tour of Les Miserables, I am struck by our current fascination with Susan Boyle, the apparently sweet woman from Scotland who has sung “I Dreamed a Dream” on Britain’s Got Talent. Okay, sure, it’s wonderful that a mousey little unknown gets to sing for these three people, and an international audience. And I’m told, the sensation is all about the “surprise” that anyone who looks like she does can sing “like that.” I repeat, what surprise? Just a reasonably pleasant (young-sounding, perhaps too young for her age) woman’s voice singing on pitch.

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