‘I cannot believe how emotional I am today’: Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert guest artists are still in awe — a year later

A little over 12 hours after their first of three Christmas performances in the 21,000-seat Conference Center last December, 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 African philanthropist Charles Mulli during the concert — a narration he said could easily make him “blubber through every line.”