Howard Marsh
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Howard Marsh (died August 7, 1969) was a leading Broadway tenor of the 1920's. He created the role of Prince Karl Franz in the original 1924 production of Sigmund Romberg's operetta The Student Prince, as well as that of Gaylord Ravenal in the original 1927 Broadway production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat, and that of Baron Franz Schroeber (not Franz Schubert) in Romberg's Blossom Time. He played Ravenal only in the original production of "Show Boat", not in any of the revivals, and never appeared in films. He made no recordings of the songs that he sang either in The Student Prince and Show Boat, but he did record some Gilbert and Sullivan in the 1930's. None of his recordings have appeared on CD as yet.
