As Chicago is the Windy City, as New York is the Big Apple, so Grand Rapids is Beer City.

Can you feel it? Can you see it? Love is in the air! Or maybe that’s just snow — hard to tell. 

The sold-out opening night crowd at Grand Rapids Ballet’s “Eternal Desire” received so much more than the grace and beauty of classical ballet that extols the virtues of romantic love more overtly than perhaps any other art form.

Thirty five years after its West End premier, it remains clear why Les Misérables is the second-longest running musical in the world and continues to attract swarms of fans on a new, transformed national tour. Its run at Miller Auditorium in Kalamazoo is a hit.