There's no telling whether Susan Boyle's dream includes appearing in Toronto, but that's where the world's most beloved underdog will be on Nov. 26, for what's being billed as her only performance in Canada in 2009.
Boyle is the Scottish singer who rocketed to worldwide fame earlier this year after performing "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables on the U.K. reality show Britain's Got Talent.
The video of that performance has been viewed 300 million times on YouTube.
Boyle will perform just one song on the Waterfall Stage at First Canadian Place at 12:15 p.m. on Nov. 26, only three days after her first album, also titled I Dreamed a Dream, is released.
It's a path trodden by another reality show prodigy: Paul Potts, the British cellphone salesman who became a YouTube sensation with his performance of "Nessun dorma" on Britain's Got Talent in 2007.
Potts, who went on to win the first season of the show, also performed at First Canadian Place when he launched his album two years ago.
Boyle's show, like Potts', will be free.
A spokesman for the venue, Brenda Parres, says it can accommodate about 2,000 spectators.
Boyle's self-deprecating manner and ugly-duckling image (her nickname is The Hairy Angel) has won her a legion of fans.
The 48-year-old church volunteer from the tiny village of Blackburn, West Lothian, who confessed to never having been kissed during her Britain's Got Talent debut, has also courted tabloid attention. After she placed second on the reality show, she was admitted to a hospital suffering from exhaustion and there were reports of erratic behaviour leading up to the finale.
Boyle is still a sensation, with her appearance on the America's Got Talent finale in September drawing 25 million viewers. She is also scheduled to sing on this week's Dancing With the Stars, which airs on ABC and CTV at 9 p.m. Tuesday.
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