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Susan Boyle became the literally unlikely face of the music industry in 2009 when her gloriously beautiful voice was discovered on the U.K. reality show Britain’s Got Talent. Her debut album I Dreamed a Dream sold a stunning number of copies (more than 700,000 copies its first week), giving the U.S. record biz a major boost at a desperate time. She even gave Taylor Swift a run for her money, booting her from the top of the charts and nearly stealing the year-end sales crown (Swift ended up beating her by a hair). Boyle’s second disc, The Gift, didn’t sell nearly as well as Dream, but considering the intensity of original BoyleMania, someone figures there’s still more money to be made off the Scottish singer. That someone is Michael Harrison, the man producing a traveling musical about Boyle’s life called, you guessed it, I Dreamed a Dream.