Should the day ever come when I am asked to perform an after-dinner party trick, I have just the thing prepared: a word-perfect rendition of Master Of The House from the musical Les Miserables. All 125 lines of it. If the assembled company want an encore — and they won’t, for I cannot sing in tune — I could also do I Dreamed A Dream, One Day More, Do You Hear The People Sing? and A Heart Full of Love. If Les Mis weren’t to the party’s taste, I could do a medley of numbers from Cats, Oliver!, Miss Saigon, Phantom Of The Opera or any of a dozen West End musicals.
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There has rarely been a better time to be a fan of musicals
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Into the Woods, Frozen, and Annie are dancing along our movie screens
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New productions of Cats, Made in Dagenham, and Assasins are on stage
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And Oliver! and Gypsy will soon be coming too
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Laura Freeman  fell in love with musicals thanks to a Poppins-like nanny
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