Broadway's boys

From: Opera News | Date: August 1, 2003| Author: Myers, Eric | Copyright information

How do Brian Stokes 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 Hammerstein's Oklahoma! in 1943, a new kind of musical hero was born: recognizably American, approachable, yet commanding enough to claim his piece of Broadway's New World. Right up through the early 1940s, mus...

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