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Broadway's boys: how do Brian Mitchell and Hugh Jackman stack up to old-timers such as Alfred Drake and Richard Kiley? Eric Myers compares some of Broadway's past powerhouses with the current crop.
When Alfred Drake strode onstage and burst into "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" in Rodgers and Hammersteins Oklahoma! in 1943, a new kind of musical hero as born: recognizably American, approachable, yet commanding enough to claim his piece of Broadway's New World. Right up through the early 1940s, musical tended to offer leading men who were either gee-whiz juveniles or stiff holdovers from the operetta era. With the role of Curly, Drake instantly became one of the great leading men of musical comedy. Long before electronic amplification on Broadway was the norm, Drake was able to fill the house with his huge voice and equally huge personality.
Nowadays, the ...
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