Greatest Male Roles in Theatre?

[Marcellus2]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 2:50am

What do you all think are the greatest roles for men in theatre? There was a thread a while back devoted to musical roles, but this thread is for both plays and musicals.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 4:00am

Willy Loman.

[ClapYo'Hands]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 5:20am

Mary Sunshine.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 5:27am

ClapYo'Hands play nice...

I'm going to name just a few:

Stanley Kowalski

Hamlet

Othello

Macbeth

Henry Higgins

Julius Ceasar

Murray Burns

[dramamama611]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 6:03am

Tevye
Sweeney Todd
James Tyrone

[chewy5000]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 7:01am

The Arbiter

[bobs3]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 7:02am

Richard III

Brutus

Iago

Vanya

Big Daddy

Elyot Chase

Oscar Madison & Felix Unger
Updated On: 9/5/12 at 07:02 AM

[chewy5000]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 7:09am

And from personal experience, Hopkins in 'The Crucible'

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 8:34am

Oedipus

Orestes

Tartuffe

Scapin

Cyrano

James, Jamie and Edmund Tyrone

Hickey

The Plaza Suite trio

The Sunshine Boys

Mel (The Prisoner of 2d Avenue)

Lopakhin

Uncle Vanya

Ivanov

The Captain (The Father)

Jean (Miss Julie)

Thomas Stockmann (An Enemy of the People)

Tom Wingfield

Big Daddy

George (WAofVW?)

Boy Willie (The Piano Lesson)

Troy (Fences)

Roy Cohn

Norman (The Norman Conquests)

Francis Henshall (1M2G - take that, Musto!)

Updated On: 9/5/12 at 08:34 AM