Biography
28 February 1957, Quinter, Kansas, USA. It was Barrett’s tenor voice and attractive stage presence that first invited attention in a 1980 Broadway revival of West Side Story in which he took the role of Diesel. His next important Broadway role came in Dance A Little Closer, by Alan Jay Lerner and Charles Strouse. This 1983 musical was unsuccessful but it was a theatrical milestone of sorts in that Barrett, in the role of airline steward Charles Castleton, sang the first openly gay love song heard in a Broadway musical: ‘Why Can’t The World Go And Leave Us Alone’. On the heels of this, Barrett was cast in a continuing dramatic role in a 1983/4 season television soap, All My Children. Towards the end of the 80s, he was in the original cast of Closer Than Ever, an off-Broadway revue by Richard Maltby and David Shire. He was soon back on Broadway, taking on the role of Baron Felix von Gaigern in Grand Hotel, and can be heard on the original cast...
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