Men in Musical Theater — Page 3

In life, women are typically more willing to express their emotions. Musical theater relies on the convention that when something becomes so emotional, it must be sung. So women, who do the majority of the emotional expressing in our culture and therefore in our theater, usually get the big songs.

maybe, to some extent - at least in musical theater. But I mean in opera there are many more opportunities for emotional arias sung by men. so who knows

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Thanks Julian. That's exactly what I'm trying to say.

I wasn't trying to say that the roles in Les Mis or whatever were easy. I'm sure they're not roles that you can just walk through, but you'll never seen " ______ in Les Mis" because the show itself sells, not the people in it, so I don't think it's a valid argument for the case I'm trying to make.

Falsettos and Floyd Collins are both male dominated shows with great opportunities for men to rip it up.

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"Les Miserables starring Ricky Martin as Marius."

what??

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Jekyll in Jekyll and Hyde is comparable to Mamma rose. You try singing in two different voices for 2 hours singing 24 songs and screaming and growling 8 times a week.

I'd take the whole "no iconic roles for men!" thing more seriously if people would throw more female examples than Mama Rose. 'Phantom Of The Opera' is a long-runner so doesn't really matter at this point, but you bet your ass that if it had closed, they'd revive it and go "OMG IT'S _______ AS THE PHANTOM!". Hell, Australia's currently got half of us all a-twitter with "and coming back to Melbourne is POTO with Anthony Warlow as the Phantom!". Don't tell me that's not a prime example of what we're talking about here.

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