Megan Hilty at the Columbia Club

While most other sane people were staying inside and out of the new snow that came down Saturday evening, I drove downtown to get photos of Megan Hilty. Hilty, who was big on NBC's Smash and played Glinda in the early runs of Wicked, was someone I had never heard of, like most of my recent music photo assignments. I also had never heard Rosemary Clooney's "When October Goes". Hilty sang that song, though, and I thought, "Damn, that was good."

As a symptom of not knowing who Megan Hilty was, I went into the assignment thinking it would be the sort of concert where I could quite easily get pictures of people enjoying the show. This was at The Cabaret at the Columbia Club, though, a place far removed from Radio Radio. This is a ritzy, highfalutin place, and people weren't going to get up from their dinner tables to dance. So, in order to fill out an IndyStar photo gallery, I had to rely on just the performer doing the things performers do. She was definitely evocative, so my job wasn't too hard.