Unexpected Exposure

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I have tonight been asked, as an emergency measure, to perform the verses to various music-hall songs this Thursday as a solo while the group that was originally supposed to be singing them joins in on the choruses - on the grounds that none of them know the tunes to the verses properly (or at all), and can't learn them in the time available

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Well, to be fair it was about the most low-key debut performance one could possibly ask for: the audience were mostly (a) over eighty, (b) immobile and (c) partially deaf. Also, they hadn't paid for their entertainment and couldn't very well complain... Anyway, compared to the Ivor Novello and Sigmund Romberg I'd been practicising (never mind Turandot -- not that I'd even attempt that in performance!) music hall is scarcely challenging stuff: all those exercises might as well come to some use