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My wife and I attended a really good show last night at BYU, “This is the Moment: The Musicals of Frank Wildhorn.”
Frank Wildhorn is an American composer of popular songs and musicals who’s developed a special relationship with BYU. (His The Count of Monte Cristo had its world premiere on campus back in 2013.)
He brought three singers with him — Jackie Burns, Norm Lewis, and Adrienne Warren — and they put on a first-rate show.
I spent much of the evening trying to figure out where I’d seen Norm Lewis before, and then I realized that he had sung the role of Inspector Javert for the 25th anniversary concert performance of Les Miserables in London, which I’ve watched on PBS.
I’m sorry to say that there were empty seats, including quite a few on our very row. It looked as if an entire family group had simply failed to show up. (There was a basketball game just a few hundred yards away.) Too bad, because this was the kind of show for which one could easily pay $150 per ticket on Broadway. Such things are among the great advantages of being near (and affiliated with) a university.
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