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The way the guest artists for this year’s Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert interact with each other, you’d think they had been working together for quite a while.
A little over 12 hours after their first of three Christmas performances in the 21,000-seat Conference Center, Broadway star Ruthie Ann Miles wrapped her arm around actor Dennis Haysbert, whose typically deep and authoritative voice was quivering with emotion as he recounted telling the life story of Dr. Charles Mulli during the concert — a narration he said could easily make him “blubber through every line.”
And as Miles shared what it meant to have her mom, her musical inspiration, in attendance as she performed Christmas music with a choir she listened to as a child, Haysbert smiled at her and gently patted her arm in support. The two seemed at ease with each other, unafraid to let out their emotions.
But it has only been about a week since Haysbert was officially announced as the concert’s narrator. The two guest artists spent just a few days together in Salt Lake City leading up to Thursday night’s opening concert — in fact, Miles was shocked to learn that the choir and orchestra only practiced together for the first time on Tuesday.
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