Bruce Hubbard (1952 âˆ' 12 November 1991) was an American operatic
baritone. A Drama Desk and Laurence Olivier Award nominee for Best
Actor, he performed on Broadway, the Metropolitan Opera, BBC
television, in concert and made several recordings. He is most famous
for appearing as Joe in Show Boat, and as Jake, as well as Porgy, in
Porgy and Bess on Broadway, the West End, and in several major opera
houses and regional theatres. He graduated from the Indiana University
Jacobs School of Music.Hubbard was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in
1951. He graduated from Arlington High School in 1971. In 1973, while
still a student at Indiana University, where he was a music major, he
helped coach actors who appeared in musicals. He returned to
Indianapolis and recorded two songs on a vinyl LP. He recorded
"Antiphon" from "Five Mystical Songs" by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and
"Without a Song," by Vincent Youmans, with the Arlington High School
concert choir. This custom album may have been his first formally
recorded release.From 1978 to 1980, after Porgy and Bess, Hubbard was
also seen on Broadway and subsequently in two Broadway National tours
of Timbuktu!, starring the legendary Eartha Kitt, Melba Moore, Gilbert
Price, and William Marshall and directed by the Tony Award winning
director, costume designer and choreographer Geoffrey Holder. Hubbard
first understudied, then eventually succeeded, Price in the leading
role of the Mansa of Mali.He also appeared in the original company of
Alan Jay Lerner and Leonard Bernstein's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in
the role of Rev. Bushrod, and performed in the first Broadway
production of Scott Joplin's Treemonisha.
baritone. A Drama Desk and Laurence Olivier Award nominee for Best
Actor, he performed on Broadway, the Metropolitan Opera, BBC
television, in concert and made several recordings. He is most famous
for appearing as Joe in Show Boat, and as Jake, as well as Porgy, in
Porgy and Bess on Broadway, the West End, and in several major opera
houses and regional theatres. He graduated from the Indiana University
Jacobs School of Music.Hubbard was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in
1951. He graduated from Arlington High School in 1971. In 1973, while
still a student at Indiana University, where he was a music major, he
helped coach actors who appeared in musicals. He returned to
Indianapolis and recorded two songs on a vinyl LP. He recorded
"Antiphon" from "Five Mystical Songs" by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and
"Without a Song," by Vincent Youmans, with the Arlington High School
concert choir. This custom album may have been his first formally
recorded release.From 1978 to 1980, after Porgy and Bess, Hubbard was
also seen on Broadway and subsequently in two Broadway National tours
of Timbuktu!, starring the legendary Eartha Kitt, Melba Moore, Gilbert
Price, and William Marshall and directed by the Tony Award winning
director, costume designer and choreographer Geoffrey Holder. Hubbard
first understudied, then eventually succeeded, Price in the leading
role of the Mansa of Mali.He also appeared in the original company of
Alan Jay Lerner and Leonard Bernstein's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in
the role of Rev. Bushrod, and performed in the first Broadway
production of Scott Joplin's Treemonisha.
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