Bruce Hubbard graduated from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
10 Facts About Bruce Hubbard
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Bruce Hubbard returned to Indianapolis and recorded two songs on a vinyl LP.
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Bruce Hubbard recorded "Antiphon" from Five Mystical Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and "Without a Song" by Vincent Youmans, with the Arlington High School concert choir.
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Bruce Hubbard 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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Bruce Hubbard began appearing in productions of Show Boat as far back as 1976, including a touring production featuring Van Johnson as Cap'n Andy.
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Bruce Hubbard said he needed a day to make up his mind and discussed it with a number of friends, including Eartha Kitt.
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Bruce Hubbard sang the role of Jake, the fisherman, but had died before the Glyndebourne production was brought to television in 1993.
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However, Bruce Hubbard was actually seen in a 1987 televised Metropolitan Opera production of Bizet's Carmen, as the smuggler Le Dancaire.
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In 1991, Bruce Hubbard was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical, for reprising his role as Joe in the London Palladium production of Show Boat.
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In 1991, Bruce Hubbard died from pneumonia in New York University Hospital.