Just In: Howard Keel Has Passed — Page 2

That's not what this thread is about, folks. Leave the bitterness about the young 'uns (hey, I'm pretty young) for another time.

I'm sad now. I loved him in the 7 Brides movie and showboat, and well anything he did. RIP Howard Keel.

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"I'm very afraid for the future of musical theater if our younger generation does not even know who he was.

God forbid they know who Alfred Drake, Nannett Fabray or John Raitt are."

Mr. Tuttle, this is 1 of the reasons why I post "Today's Birthdays." So younger readers might read about the performers, the plays/musicals they were in, & who their co-stars were, & get curious &/or share their thoughts & questions.

Milla

And thank you Milla for that wonderful feature. I have read it and enjoyed it very much.

But the fact that we have so many younger people here who claim that musical theater is their lives..and they haven't bothered to learn how musical theater has come this far. It is sad.

Was Rent really the start of American musical theater?

While I think it is a valid argument to say shows like Wicked, Craplynd and Footloose can get young people interested in MT, I find it sad that people think that Showboat was a Hal Prince show..if even that! Even college students here have shown they don't know basic things like Rogers & Hart and Gwen Verdon.

We seem to be in a sad world where if it wasn't featured on MTV, then it doesn't exist.

I would love for a member here to compose the Broadwayworld.com entrace exam. A comprehensive exam that would show our younger (and older) members how much rich history American musical theater has.

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At least if they think Show Boat is a Harold Prince show they can use it as an entranceway to the rest of his oeuvre. Not a bad place to start if you're studying musical theater history.

"Nanette Fabray does not ring a bell" . . .

Does Shelley Fabares jog the memory?

I just read this on "Le Monde" (I was doing a French assignment) and I was kind of hoping I was translating incorrectly. How sad, he'll be greatly missed.

(And I'm in college. Some of us do know things. And I'm sure we'll be saying the same things of the next generation about stars of our generation. It's the way it goes.)

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Reading the TV demographic-friendly obit, "Howard Keel, star of 'Dallas', is dead..." is ludicrous and minimizing.

It would be like reading "Lucille Ball, famous star of the film musical MAME..."

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This is terrible! He was a great talent & legend... he will be missed. =(

By the way, I'm 15 and know who he is, if that makes any of you feel any better... :/

I know this isn't the point you were making, but I am dreading the day Julie Andrews is in the headlines...

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Today for some reason I was thinking what an awful day it will be when Sondheim passes... agh, don't know what I'll do.

Angela and Julie too, of course.

The item stated that Howard Keel died of colon cancer. Terribly sad news.