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Dear Simon,

Thank you and your amazing friends for the great show last night at the Lamburne Club.

The whole experience was superb and this was due to the talent and professionalism of all the cast.

We were guests of the Club Chairman, Richard Webb who gave a vote of thanks at the end of the show.

One extra nice touch was that my wife Ros met up with Mark Dries again. She taught him french at ...

Hi Simon,

We met you on saturday at the q and a at Les Mis kids club before the matinee. Thanks so much for your time- my son is now convinced he wants to be a musical theatre star! Your answers were fascinating and the performance superb. We will be back to see it again soon. Good luck in your future parts !

Best wishes The Washbourn family :-)

I was blown away by your stunning performance last night as Jean Valjean, well done the whole performance was amazing, I first watched a performance of Les Miserables 15yrs ago, last night was only my 2nd time, thanks again for an amazing performance.

Regards Tracey Jones, Berkshire

Hi Simon,

Even though you were extremely talented at 9 years old I never could have imagined when I gave you the title role in JOSEPH at school that you would climb to such dizzy heights.

CONGRATULATIONS on everything you have acheived ! I am so proud and happy for you!

Keep up the good work! Love and best wishes from your old music teacher!

Hallo Simon Shorten, I have seen you in the role of Jean Valjean some months ago and I was deeply impressed. You stepped in the role after the other actor had an indisposition before AT THE END OF THE DAY. It was so impressive to see you taking over the role. It would be a pleasure to receive a short answer from you. I am a German pianist and I have some professional questions to you. Greetings, David Harrington

quick hi to you! have a great break!

Happy birthday have a good one ! mum &  R4

Hi Simon,

It's Jean Carroll here, I just spotted you in the Les Miserables programme and am very proud of you getting so far and good luck with the rest of your shows. Hope you are happy.

Lots of love,

Jean x

Had a great time at the O2 cant wait to get the DVD in Novermber we are very proud of you and Katie 25years of LES MIS and you were both part of it.

Mum & R4

Hi Simon,

just wanted to say I had a greaat time at the 25th Anniversary Concert for Les Mis! First time for me at the O2 too - great experience - many thanks to yourself and Katy for making it possible for us to experience that.

You're a couple of stars!

All the best,

R4

Simon,
Well done on all your success and I hope there is plenty more to come.
Martin (works with your mum who should be your promoter!).

Brought my mum to see les miserables as a birthday treat in London in October 2009. Both of us very impressed with Simons' performance . Mum has seen the show twice since then. We are going again in November.

Hallo Simon,

I sendt this for the first time a week ago. did you not receive it?

we saw your wonderful JVJ on Tuedsay, 10th August 2010. They way you dived into the character after the intermission was admirable und we very much enjoyed watching your growing as you proceeded. Under everybody’s eyes you became an agleam and radiant JVJ. An unforgettable evening.

We, my son David and I, had come over from Hamburg just to see Les Mis once more after having seen it several times in NY - first time 20 years agao in NY - and London. My son is a conductor himself, conduction quite anumber of Musicals like Phantom of the Opera etc. in Germany. We are a well tuned in family. Les Miserable has always had a special corner in our hearts. It was the first time for me to experience an intermission of such length yet conductor and cast brought back charisma and vibrancy into the show. Thank your for this most impressive evening.

Kindest regards Renate

The website is great!! As you :]] You're really talented and I wish I will met you someday :)) Never say never, right? :] Thnx for being nice with everyone and you know your fans will always support you!! :)

Dennie [ www.twitter.com/luv__disney ]

Just wanted to let you know that your voice is amazing (take care of it! )

I look forward to seeing/hearing you in more productions!  Keep us posted.

Warm wishes-

Tania  (a.k.a. @TJBeagles)

Hi Simon, or Jean ? I don't know hahah. I leave this message right now because i want to say that you're sooooo talented. You're totally amazing! I wish i could meet you! Im going to see the show on friday! i'm so excited! I'll be at the stage door on thursday i hope to meet you!  I just want to say you Thank you, Thank you for staying you! We love you and support you!

Take care Simon! xx

@MarinaWilds.

Hey Simon, I just had to write and say what an awesome job you did on Saturday evening as Valjean :) I've seen a fair few people take on the challenge before and you were definately up there with the best of them x Things i particularly liked (i wont bore you with too much detail!) were the laugh when you go to collect Cosette (David Shannon used to do a laugh there and i loved it!),  the hands in confrontation, your expressions when you're reading Marius' letter, and bring him home was beautiful.  Its great to be able to hear you show off your voice fully.  I think Jeff missed u in the robbery tho as no one took any notice of his "maggots" hehe.  It must have been a tough night for you what with that and with Katy leaving the show.

Thanks for my stare :)
Take Care x Kaitey

Simon....i was your Mr Bumble and look at you now! I am so proud of you and pleased for you.

I was talking with Howard the other day - it must be nearly 8 years since i saw a production of Les Miserables.

Can you arrange tickets for the gala concerts at the O2?? Will you be appearing in it? If so - i want to come and see you in it and meet Katy too.

If not - can you let me know when you will be playing JVJ and i will endeavour to come to the Queens (ooh how apt!) to see you so long as i get a back stage tour too - it will bring back memories for when i had to master the revolve when i worked with Les Mis at the palace theatre for 3 masterclasses!!!

speak soon

steven xxx

I just saw you play Jean Valjean (wednesday june 9, 2010) and you were wonderful. Your voice is stunning and your range is wow! This was my first time seeing the show and enjoyed every second. It ended to soon. what a great cast. 

Hi Simon - can anyone post a message in your guest book or just friends?  Anyone I hope - so here goes!

I was at the Wednesday matinee of Les Mis last week and saw you as JVJ.  I have never seen you play this role and I wanted to say how amazing your voice is.  You gave me a proper wet face I was moved so much, and that hasn't happened since I saw Drew play Valjean.  So good to enjoy it to the point to be moved to tears!

Hope to see you play it again one day.

Kind regards

Jacky

Hi Simon Just been reading about your latest stint as Jean Valjean how fantastic is that eh!! Just a shame when i saw the show you weren't playing it. Never mind if you get any advance notice of playing Jean please can you let me know and i will do my best to come and see you.

Love to you and Katy xx

hows it going bro.

liking the website, looking forward to getting back and coming to see you sing again. hope you and katy are both well.

xx

Howdy doodie, i have been told to give you a quick message to see if your new web site works. like the mean and moody picture.

Hope all is well and that you and katie are well.

take care

Andy and thelma

Hey Simon!

I'm pleased with how the website turned out - hope you are too!

It's got quite a lot of functionality (this guestbook for instance) but there's all sorts of nifty things we can do with it so just let me know if you have any ideas.

Best wishes

R4