For Broadway’s First Black Phantom, a Dream Fulfilled

NYTimes.com: Say a wish out loud enough times, and it might come true. It worked for the Broadway baritone Norm Lewis, anyway. For years, when Mr. Lewis, the star of 2012’s “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess,” was asked what his dream roles would be, he often mentioned Harold Hill in “The Music Man” or Billy Bigelow in “Carousel.” Yet the role he invariably named was the title character in the long-running musical “The Phantom of the Opera,” and at last it has come his way. Mr. Lewis will don the cape and mask for a six-month run starting May 12.