This Broadway Tenor Chose the Prophet Joseph Over Phantom of the Opera (with Dallyn Vail Bayles)

Dallyn Vail Bayles has one of the most recognized tenor voices in Latter-day Saint music. He has sung the Phantom on a national tour of Phantom of the Opera, led Les Mis as Enjolras, made his Carnegie Hall debut, performed at the Kennedy Center, and stood beside the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square. Then a call came from New York offering him the Phantom tour again, right as rehearsals began for a small pageant in Nauvoo, Illinois. Any performer would take the tour. Dallyn turned it down to play the Prophet Joseph Smith instead. It was the kind of choice that could quietly end a career, and it is one he has made more than once.

In this episode of Why We Believe, host Nathan Gwilliam sits down with Dallyn to trace the faith behind those choices. Dallyn shares the counsel of an apostle who told him on a film set that he did not have the talent to portray the Restoration, that none of us do, and that he would need to rely on the Lord. He describes leaving Broadway to move his family back to Utah and teach seminary, a sacrifice that opened the door to the most sacred work of his life. He talks about the strength he draws from his wife Rachel and the sealing that binds them, and he closes with the reason he keeps choosing the Savior: to whom shall I go?

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