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Favorite "Father" role in a Broadway show...
tagiunagi
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/27/05
#25re: Favorite 'Father' role in a Broadway show...
Posted: 6/19/05 at 4:16amI second Tateh from Ragtime. I think he's a much more admirable and moral father than Father.
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Jwaa
Broadway Star Joined: 11/28/04
Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#27re: Favorite 'Father' role in a Broadway show...
Posted: 6/19/05 at 4:44am
I have a soft spot for Mushnik and Tevye, because after playing Seymour and Motel, I had to have a strong stage chemistry with the actors playing those father figures.
Also Wilbur Turnblad reminds me a little of my dad, so I love him too.
Akiva
#28re: Favorite 'Father' role in a Broadway show...
Posted: 6/19/05 at 4:50amBecause I'm completely possessed with Ragtime these days, I shall go solely with Tateh. I can't think of a more unconditionally loving father. Even when he became a successful director, it was still all about his daughter.
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#30re: Favorite 'Father' role in a Broadway show...
Posted: 6/19/05 at 10:20amValjean and Phantom
Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky. With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high! Blood-red were the spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat, when they shot him down on the highway, down like a dog on the highway, and he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat...
(The Highwayman. Sung by: Loreena McKennitt)
#31re: Favorite 'Father' role in a Broadway show...
Posted: 6/19/05 at 10:26am
tevye, maurice, wilbur turnblad is just adorable. 
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#32re: Favorite 'Father' role in a Broadway show...
Posted: 6/19/05 at 10:32amI don't know if he's a great father but Alfred P. Doolittle is a great character.
In my heart, I found the answered dream,
and in my soul I found the song, and in my friends
I found the magic, the love,
the moon up above- they were mine, all mine, all along..!
wildcat
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
#33re: Favorite 'Father' role in a Broadway show...
Posted: 6/19/05 at 10:48am"You ain't gettin' 88 CENTS from me, Rose."
#34re: Favorite 'Father' role in a Broadway show...
Posted: 6/19/05 at 10:56am
Walter- A Raisin in the Sun
Potts- Chitty
"If I have something to say, the whole world (BroadwayWorld) should hear it." - Thenardier
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#35re: Favorite 'Father' role in a Broadway show...
Posted: 6/19/05 at 11:07amI can't believe no one mentioned the Baker in INTO THE WOODS!
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#37re: Favorite 'Father' role in a Broadway show...
Posted: 6/19/05 at 11:19am
Mr.Caldwell B. Cladwell from Urinetown
"Mr. Cladwell, you're so godly, oddly perfect and right!!"
GypsyRoseLee
Broadway Star Joined: 7/5/04
#38re: Favorite 'Father' role in a Broadway show...
Posted: 6/19/05 at 11:21am
Phantomerik: I didn't know the Phantom had a SON!?!?!
gotta love/hate Pap from Big River.
"This is what I trained to do, and this is what I love about theater. What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being. And out my own self, to shape and form and fashion a real human being--and to present that in such a way that people see something of themselves or their own understanding in that human being."
--Phylicia Rashad
wildcat
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
#39re: Favorite 'Father' role in a Broadway show...
Posted: 6/19/05 at 11:23amArnold in TORCH SONG TRILOGY. Although he's more on the maternal side...
Elizabeth_DeBris
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#40re: Favorite 'Father' role in a Broadway show...
Posted: 6/19/05 at 11:47am
Georges (La Cage aux Folles)
Tevye
Billy Bigelow
The Baker
The King of Siam
Jean Valjean
I think Tevye's probably Number 1, for me, though.
#41re: Favorite 'Father' role in a Broadway show...
Posted: 6/19/05 at 12:10pmtevye
awkward.
"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912
sanda
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
#43re: Favorite 'Father' role in a Broadway show...
Posted: 6/19/05 at 12:18pm
Caractacus Pottttttts, but only because of who plays him. 
#44re: Favorite 'Father' role in a Broadway show...
Posted: 6/19/05 at 12:56pmWilbur Turnblad, definitely.
Bal
Leading Actor Joined: 10/19/04
#45re: Favorite 'Father' role in a Broadway show...
Posted: 6/19/05 at 5:07pm
Caractacus, Alfred P..
CapnHook, I know you like Peter Pan a lot, but why did you pick Mr. Darling? I've never noticed there being a lot to him.
"Well, obviously Company is about the Kennedy family. Bobby is played by Raul, and JFK is played by Harvey Fierstein."
-vfd88
#46re: Favorite 'Father' role in a Broadway show...
Posted: 6/19/05 at 5:12pm
definitely Wilbur Turnblad!
(Dick Latessa was amazing as such a loving, wonderful father!)
Hank
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#47re: Favorite 'Father' role in a Broadway show...
Posted: 6/19/05 at 5:47pmWilbur Turnblad! Definetly! Over Georges (LaCage) and Tevye.
CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#48re: Favorite 'Father' role in a Broadway show...
Posted: 6/19/05 at 9:57pm
Tateh, Tevye and Mushnik - all Jewish daddies!
Valjean also wins the prize. Ooh, and ya gotta love Belle's dad from Beauty and the Beast.
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Updated On: 6/20/05 at 09:57 PM
#49re: Favorite 'Father' role in a Broadway show...
Posted: 6/19/05 at 10:02pmMarvin, without a doubt.
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