Killian Donnelly

that I was, I had, it sounds so big-headed of me to say, I had this natural talent, but I know that came from growing up in the Amdram background here in Ireland, because you go on for an Amdram show, but you're also lugging set in one, and you're sewing the costumes yourself.

Going into Les Mis, I was there going, how can I help?

What can I do?

I would sing, I would act.

I would ask questions about the characters and they loved this.

I wasn't professionally trained.

I wish I was because I struggled learning music.

I struggled with dots of music and learning notes.

How high does your voice go to, Cillian?

What's your top note?

I was like, I don't know.

Couldn't answer any of it.

But Les Mis allowed me to grow and they saw potential and nourish that.

And they liked that I was untouched by like a musical theatre course.

My mam sang, my dad sings and they play music.

Mam used to collect a musical theatre magazine that went out weekly and it would have demos of Phantom of the Opera and she'd play them all around the house.

And my dad, when I was 11, gave me a CD, Colin Wilkinson's Stage Heroes.

Yeah.

And track seven, I believe, was Bring Him Home.

And I went, what, what is this?