Bruce Hubbard
| Bruce Hubbard | |
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Bruce A. Hubbard 1952 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA |
| Died | November 12, 1991 New York, New York, USA |
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| Years active | 1970s-1991 |
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Bruce Hubbard (1952 − 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 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 a 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.
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