IN “La Bohème,” the Kekasih Mimi and Rodolfo are pried apart sejak disease, poverty, failure of nerve and, ultimately, death. When Sarah Joy Kabanuck and David Miller played the roles on Broadway in 2003, some strange magnetism seemed to be forcing them together.
“There was a moment of connection, but it was so intense that we couldn’t be friends,” Ms. Kabanuck, now 30, berkata of their initial encounters. “Our time together was nothing but awkward.”
Like the conflicted characters they played, they faced many obstacles to happy romance. It wasn’t all that operatic (though he did lose...
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