Who are Considered the Best Male Broadway Musical Performers of Godlen Age?
Who are Considered the Best Male Broadway Musical Performers of Godlen Age?
#1Who are Considered the Best Male Broadway Musical Performers of Godlen Age?
Posted: 6/5/10 at 8:05am
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!
The Other One
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/08
#2Who are Considered the Best Male Broadway Musical Performers of Godlen Age?
Posted: 6/5/10 at 8:19am
The first to come to mind for me are Alfred Drake, John Raitt, Richard Kiley, Zero Mostel and Robert Preston.
#2Who are Considered the Best Male Broadway Musical Performers of Godlen Age?
Posted: 6/5/10 at 8:27amThank 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,
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#3Who are Considered the Best Male Broadway Musical Performers of Godlen Age?
Posted: 6/5/10 at 8:32amJerry Orbach
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#4Who are Considered the Best Male Broadway Musical Performers of Godlen Age?
Posted: 6/5/10 at 8:42amJoel Grey fits in there, too.
#5Who are Considered the Best Male Broadway Musical Performers of Godlen Age?
Posted: 6/5/10 at 8:53am
Thanks everyone, I'm looking for about 20:
Robert Morse
Jerry Orbach
John Raitt
Richard Kiley
Joey Grey
Robert Preston
John Cullum
I'm really struggling (and the 2 rum and cokes ain't helping)
Sammy Davis Jr.?
Alfred Drake
I've got tons of modern men in mind, but I'm really going for a golden age feel on this discs. Disc 1 is Broadway/Showbiz songs and disc 2 is Leading Ladies.
EDIT:
Phil Silvers
John McMartin
Charles Nelson Reilly
I feel like I'm missing some obvious ones...Damn you rum and coke and clonazapam!
The Other One
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/08
#6Who are Considered the Best Male Broadway Musical Performers of Godlen Age?
Posted: 6/5/10 at 9:12am
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
Miriam4
Swing Joined: 6/5/10
#7Who are Considered the Best Male Broadway Musical Performers of Godlen Age?
Posted: 6/5/10 at 11:07am
If you want to know more names from this dinosaur then:
Dennis King
Howard Marsh
Richard Halliday
William Gaxton
Todd Duncan (Porgy and Bess, Lost In the Stars)
Ronald Graham (boys From Syracuse, Dubarry Was A Lady, By Jupiter)
#8Who are Considered the Best Male Broadway Musical Performers of Godlen Age?
Posted: 6/5/10 at 11:31amStephen Douglass fer sher. Has Robert Weede been mentioned? Tommy Rall perhaps?
#9Who are Considered the Best Male Broadway Musical Performers of Godlen Age?
Posted: 6/5/10 at 11:35am
Ezio Penza
Yul Brynner
Neither one of them really have that many musical credits, but I feel like both of their performances are pretty legendary.
Brick
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/06
#10Who are Considered the Best Male Broadway Musical Performers of Godlen Age?
Posted: 6/5/10 at 12:36pmJoh Raitt (CAROUSEL, PAJAMA GAME)
#11Who are Considered the Best Male Broadway Musical Performers of Godlen Age?
Posted: 6/5/10 at 12:40pm
If you (and rightfully so) include Penza and Brynner, you need to consider
Robert Preston
Rex Harrison.
zooxanthellae
Broadway Star Joined: 6/2/07
#12Who are Considered the Best Male Broadway Musical Performers of Godlen Age?
Posted: 6/5/10 at 2:04pmRobert Goulet (Camelot),
#13Who are Considered the Best Male Broadway Musical Performers of Godlen Age?
Posted: 6/5/10 at 4:53pm
Ray Bolger
Eddie Albert
Sydney Chaplin
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#14Who are Considered the Best Male Broadway Musical Performers of Godlen Age?
Posted: 6/5/10 at 4:54pm
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)
Joanne5
Swing Joined: 6/5/10
#15Who are Considered the Best Male Broadway Musical Performers of Godlen Age?
Posted: 6/5/10 at 5:23pmAgreed on Howard Keel...he also took over the lead in "No Strings" from Richard Kiley.
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#16Who are Considered the Best Male Broadway Musical Performers of Godlen Age?
Posted: 6/5/10 at 9:27pm
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.
#17Who are Considered the Best Male Broadway Musical Performers of Godlen Age?
Posted: 6/6/10 at 12:53am
Fred Astaire. Nobody has ever surpassed him. 
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