For women its easy -- Mama Rose, most people would say, or perhaps Evita. But what would you consider the male equivilent? What is the greatest role for a man in Musical Theater?
"I hope you're all happy, keeping Alan off the team. Couldn't you, for once, open your minds and hearts and hear something that he couldn't see? I, for one, am glad that Alan is blind, so he can't see what, I am so sad to say, you can't hear." -Jerri Blank
"I hope you're all happy, keeping Alan off the team. Couldn't you, for once, open your minds and hearts and hear something that he couldn't see? I, for one, am glad that Alan is blind, so he can't see what, I am so sad to say, you can't hear." -Jerri Blank
Mama Rose? i would agree with Evita,Norma Desmond,the Narrator in Joseph,the Witch,Spider Woman in "kiss...",Sally Bowles...bla bla. the best male role is Roger in Rent.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
Sweeney Todd I guess because he has quiet a few different levels (you have to be cheering for him to kill the judge but be afriad of him)
When someone blunders, we say that he makes a misstep. Is it then not clear that all the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill our history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. - Moliere