The Best Male Voice on Broadway

[Unknown User]

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

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

[PiraguaGuy2]

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

I sure do love ridiculous superlatives.

[WithoutATrace]

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]

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

Very well phrased, Pajama Guy.

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

[Dollypop]

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

The best male voice on Broadway is Stokes.

Plain

Dot

Period

[Unknown User]

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]

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

Do your own research, kiddo.

[WithoutATrace]

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

I disagree with Stokes...

[Yankeefan007]

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

Stokes and Barbour.

[CSonBroadway]

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

I think Tony Yazbeck has a very powerful voice.

[WithoutATrace]

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

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

[Unknown User]

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]

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

Stokes' peak was in RAGTIME...

[StickToPriest]

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

But what a peak it was.

[WithoutATrace]

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]

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?

[PalJoey]

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

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

[WithoutATrace]

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

Love the Danieley suggestion, PJ!

[TenThousandThings]

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

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

[BroomstickBoy]

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

I vote for Norm Lewis for the best.

[Unknown User]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

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

Brian D'Arcy James