The Best Male Voice on Broadway
The Best Male Voice on Broadway
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PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#2re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:17pmI sure do love ridiculous superlatives.
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#2re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#3re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:18pm
Very well phrased, Pajama Guy.
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Updated On: 2/1/09 at 10:18 PM
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#4re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:21pm
The best male voice on Broadway is Stokes.
Plain
Dot
Period
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#5re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:22pmLink 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#6re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:25pmDo your own research, kiddo.
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Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#9re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:29pmI think Tony Yazbeck has a very powerful voice.
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#10re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:30pmBarbour might be up there...I also really love Norm Lewis.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#11re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:35pm
I do like Tony Y a lot.
Stokes sounds, well...old. Sorry, not meant to be mean.
#13re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:39pmBut what a peak it was.
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#14re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:42pmI 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#15re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway
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?
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#16re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:52pmI'll toss in Jason Danieley and David Burnham, but for "excellent" not "best."
TenThousandThings
Understudy Joined: 7/19/06
#18re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:58pm
Give me Randal Keith or Aaron Lazar any day . . . 
BroomstickBoy
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/04
#19re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/1/09 at 11:02pmI vote for Norm Lewis for the best.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#20re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/1/09 at 11:07pmAaron 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
Chorus Member Joined: 11/9/07
#21re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway
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.
Chorus Member Joined: 12/31/69
#22re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/1/09 at 11:24pmMy 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.
#23re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/1/09 at 11:31pmOf 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#24re: The Best Male Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/1/09 at 11:41pmBrian D'Arcy James
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