“It was magnificent, it was wonderful, it was everything I thought it would be–colourful, lively. The discipline, the choreography–everything was perfection. It was just a feast for the eyes, a feast for the ears. The music was wonderful, and the tenor was just icing on the cake–powerful voice, lovely.”

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“The first impression, really I was excited and actually I got a bit emotional. ... It was a cascade of emotion and sound and sight and colour, and it was almost like a wave that came over me, it really was. ... It pulled the emotions out, and I think it’s better than therapy.”

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“The impression is the discipline and hard work. You can pull something together with so many people involved and everything is seamless. The professionalism of everyone involved, the places, the timing–two eyes weren’t enough to look at everything with. It was really that good. I wish I had two more, because my eyes kept darting from left to right, up to down, to make sure I didn’t miss anything.”

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“Good feeling. Such a lovely, calm, festive feeling. It was enjoyable and it lightens the heart–the same way as when you’re reading a good book and you feel involved. And it’s unusual to feel involved in something that is just starting. With a book you get involved after a while; this was almost immediate. The curtain went up and it was there, and it was happening, and I was there. It was just that quickly. It just came out and grabbed me.”

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“I will definitely recommend this type of program because it suits everyone. You just carry it away, beautiful, imaginative, definitely something well worth revisiting again.

“I think that anyone who can see it should see it, if not for anything other than just the sense of almost like being in a dream. The movement and the liveliness, the life, just the life force. ... It was my sister’s Christmas gift to me, so this was a lovely gift and I’ll carry it with me always.”