Showtune Saturday: All about John Barrowman!

So where were you the first time you saw John Barrowman? I was in my old apartment in Long Beach, it was the mid-90s, and John appeared onscreen in the delicious but sadly short-lived CBS prime-time sudser Central Park West. He played a John F. Kennedy Jr. like character (until he killed his crazy tabloid reporter wife!) and I knew I had to see more of that man who turns 56 today.

About five years later, I even sat through every dreadful episode of NBC’s short-lived Titans just to see John who played a miserable drunk heterosexual character and continued to enjoy John wherever I could see him including a wonderful musical number with Kevin Kline in De-Lovely.

All the while, he had a thriving career on stage including on Broadway and in London in such shows as Anything Goes, Miss Saigon, The Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, The Fix, La Cage aux Folles and Matador.

But the best yet to come ass far as television fame with John landing the role as Captain Jack Harkness in Doctor Who and Torchwood, and as Malcolm Merlyn on Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow.

Barrowman met his husband, Scott Gill, after Gill came to see him in a production of Rope at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 1993.

I love John’s acting and his good looks but most of all, I love his singing. His most recent album, Centre Stage, was released late last year. Let’s celebrate John’s birthday with some of his performances: