Who are Considered the Best Male Broadway Musical Performers of Godlen Age?

I'm making a compilation CD. I have some ideas but would love to hear your thoughts on who the finest male musical theatre talent of the Golden Age are. Thanks in advance!

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Updated On: 6/5/10 at 08:05 AM

Thank you very much, Other. I've got all of them on my radar. Just don't want to miss anyone before I burn the disc,

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Joel Grey fits in there, too.

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Not really obvious, but Ray Middleton (Annie Get Your Gun, Man of La Mancha), Robert Rounseville (Candide, Man of La Mancha), Sammy Davis (Mr. Wonderful, Golden Boy), David Burns (Forum, Dolly, Do Re Mi), Clifford David (1776, Clear Day, Wildcat), Larry Kert (WSS, Company "London"), Stephen Douglass (Damn Yankees, Show Boat, 110 in the Shade -- fantastic singer), Ray Walston (Damn Yankees), Jack Gilford (Forum, Cabaret, No No Nanette -- always priceless), Jack Cassady (Superman, She Loves Me, Brigadoon studio recording), Bert Convy (Fiddler, Cabaret)...

Updated On: 6/5/10 at 09:12 AM

Stephen Douglass fer sher. Has Robert Weede been mentioned? Tommy Rall perhaps?

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Joh Raitt (CAROUSEL, PAJAMA GAME)

Robert Goulet (Camelot),

ALSO:
Harve Presnell (Unsinkable Molly Brown)
William Tabbert (the original Joe Cable in SP & Marius in Fanny)
Mark Dawson (High Button Shoes, Fiorello)
Dennis King (The 3 Musketeers, Desert Song)
Wilbur Evans (Up in Central Park, South Pacific, New Moon)
Earl Wrightson (The Firebrand of Florence, Kiss Me Kate)
Gene Kelly (Leave it to Me & the original and for most people still unsurpassed as "Joey" in Pal Joey, who went on the an even bigger career in films as a musical performer, choreographer & director)
and lastly, even though they were more famous as film musical stars, all three rank among the finest male singers of theater music in the 20th Century and did appear in stage productions:
Nelson Eddy (Naughty Marietta)
Gordon MacRae (I Do, I Do)
Howard Keel (Saratoga, South Pacific)

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Adding: Howard DeSilva (1776, Fiorello - "little tin box')

otherwise, yeah, I'd go for John Rait, John Collum, Sydney Chaplin, Howard Keel, Harve Presnell, Alfred Drake, Zero Mostel. You have to have Yul Bryner and Rex Harrison for the performances.