The Best Male Voice on Broadway

[Unknown User]

The Best Male Voice on Broadway#1

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:16pm

Updated On: 2/6/09 at 10:16 PM

[PiraguaGuy2]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#2

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:17pm

I sure do love ridiculous superlatives.

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[WithoutATrace]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#2

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:18pm

The best male voice(s) on Broadway are no longer with us.

I would say John Raitt and Robert Goulet.

[Dollypop]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#3

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:18pm

Very well phrased, Pajama Guy.

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

Updated On: 2/1/09 at 10:18 PM

[Dollypop]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#4

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:21pm

The best male voice on Broadway is Stokes.

Plain

Dot

Period

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

[Unknown User]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#5

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:22pm

Link to somebody close or who you think is better and I'll at least listen, which is more than I can say for you, P2.

[Dollypop]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#6

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:25pm

Do your own research, kiddo.

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

[WithoutATrace]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#7

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:25pm

I disagree with Stokes...

[Yankeefan007]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#8

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:25pm

Stokes and Barbour.

[CSonBroadway]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#9

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:29pm

I think Tony Yazbeck has a very powerful voice.

I'm a professional. Whenever something goes wrong on stage, I know how to handle it so no one ever remembers. I flash my %#$&. "Jayne just sat there while Gina flailed around the stage like an idiot."

[WithoutATrace]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#10

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:30pm

Barbour might be up there...I also really love Norm Lewis.

[Unknown User]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#11

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:35pm

I do like Tony Y a lot.

Stokes sounds, well...old. Sorry, not meant to be mean.

[WithoutATrace]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#12

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:37pm

Stokes' peak was in RAGTIME...

[StickToPriest]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#13

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:39pm

But what a peak it was.

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[WithoutATrace]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#14

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:42pm

I agree. RAGTIME still remains the best show I have ever seen. It was my fifth Broadway show, and still the one I loved most. Stokes, Mazzie, and McDonald were brilliant.

[SporkGoddess]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#15

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:49pm

My voice teacher can't stand Stokes, haha.

I'm gonna say Cheyenne Jackson. Or does Anthony Warlow count?

Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!

[PalJoey]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#16

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:52pm

I'll toss in Jason Danieley and David Burnham, but for "excellent" not "best."

[WithoutATrace]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#17

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:54pm

Love the Danieley suggestion, PJ!

[TenThousandThings]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#18

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:58pm

Give me Randal Keith or Aaron Lazar any day . . .

[BroomstickBoy]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#19

Posted: 2/1/09 at 11:02pm

I vote for Norm Lewis for the best.

I don't WANT to live in what they call "a certain way." In the first place I'd be no good at it and besides that I don't want to be identified with any one class of people. I want to live every whichway, among all kinds---and know them---and understand them---and love them---THAT's what I want! - Philip Barry (Holiday)

[Unknown User]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#20

Posted: 2/1/09 at 11:07pm

Aaron Lazar's voice can soar. It's that quality that gets me. My other favorite singer is Juan Diego Florez. But, he's an opera tenor. Same quality...bel canto-ish.

[BwayJerry]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#21

Posted: 2/1/09 at 11:12pm

Seriously??? Constantine Maroulis? Tony Yazbeck? Doesn't anyone care about a singer who can act the song? James Barbour? Really?

Has anyone ever heard Alfred Drake? John Raitt? Those are voices with something behind them.

Contemporarily, I agree with Jason Danieley and Norm Lewis. Jeff McCarthy, Terrence Mann, Brian D'Arcy James.

Cheyenne, Aaron Lazar, and David Burnham are fantastic, but they all have a few years before they land in this category...

Raise your expectations, friends. It's been a long time since we've seen a real Broadway Leading Man (not that this is specifically the conversation, but I digress). We should expect a lot more out of our Broadway singers than a raised eyebrow, a heavy lisp or assuming someone is a good Broadway singer simply because thy have a low baritone sound.

[Unknown User]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#22

Posted: 2/1/09 at 11:24pm

My grandmama used to talk about Alfred Drake in Oklahoma. I've heard some recordings and seen some things on youtube. Though I respect, it does seem awfully dated.

[Soprano91]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#23

Posted: 2/1/09 at 11:31pm

Of people who are still alive and performing? Stokes. It's not even close, in my opinion. Not the best male voice on Broadway ever, but if you ask me nobody else these days can touch him.

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[WishingOnlyWounds2]

re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway#24

Posted: 2/1/09 at 11:41pm

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