A Poor Kind of Hero

By Kiersten Hallie Krum

A heart full of something all right

I’ve loved Les Miserables since it debuted on Broadway when I was 14-years-old. The music. The redemption story. The fact thathere, in the same era of The Phantom of the Opera high soprano celebrated heyday, was a musical with not one, but two songs written in my contralto range. No surprise I identified most with Eponine, the poor, neglected girl in love with the heroic boy who falls in love with the hero’s daughter. I was fourteen af...