Watch Why Norm Lewis is Phantom & Discover That Michael Jackson Wanted to Be

Soon-to-be-Phantom Norm Lewis was picked as World News with Diane Sawyer's "Person of the Week" April 4 and if we were excited about the Tony nominee starring in Broadway's longest-running show before, we're counting down the hours now. As Andrew Lloyd Webber says in the video below, Lewis' first performance alongside Sierra Boggess on May 12 is going to be "like an opening night all over again." Watch the first African American to play the role on the Great White Way rehearse with the legendary composer and also Phans note a little-known fact about the musical that Lloyd Webber reveals: Michael Jackson at one point wanted to play the titular role.