Greatest Male Roles in Theatre?
Greatest Male Roles in Theatre?
Marcellus2
Chorus Member Joined: 2/16/12
#1Greatest Male Roles in Theatre?
Posted: 9/5/12 at 2:50amWhat 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.
#2Greatest Male Roles in Theatre?
Posted: 9/5/12 at 4:00amWilly Loman.
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#3Greatest Male Roles in Theatre?
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#4Greatest Male Roles in Theatre?
Posted: 9/5/12 at 6:03am
Tevye
Sweeney Todd
James Tyrone
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chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
bobs3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/12
#6Greatest Male Roles in Theatre?
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#7Greatest Male Roles in Theatre?
Posted: 9/5/12 at 7:09amAnd from personal experience, Hopkins in 'The Crucible'
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#8Greatest Male Roles in Theatre?
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
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