John Raitt, the ruggedly handsome musical theater leading man who created the role of Billy Bigelow in Broadway’s “Carousel,” died Sunday. He was 88. The father of Grammy-winning singer Bonnie Raitt ...

John Raitt, the ruggedly handsome musical theater leading man who launched his Broadway career in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s 1945 hit “Carousel” and later co-starred in “The Pajama Game” on Broadway and ...

LOS ANGELES – Though in his later years he joked that he had become best known as singer Bonnie Raitt's father, John Raitt (search) was famous in his own right as the robust baritone who livened ...

John Raitt, the robust baritone who created the role of Billy Bigelow in the original New York production of “Carousel” and sang with Doris Day in the movie “Pajama Game,” died Sunday. He was 88.Raitt ...

Raitt, the father of singer Bonnie Raitt, died at his Pacific Palisades home from complications of pneumonia, his manager, James Fitzgerald, said in a statement. Raitt had become well known on the ...

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FULLERTON – Two Orange County youths have won the local “John Raitt Awards for Youth”, sponsored by Fullerton Civic Light Opera Music Theatre. Alex Syiek of Huntington Beach High School won the Best ...

When Janis Paige remembers John Raitt, the revered leading man of many musicals who is best known for creating the role of Billy Bigelow in “Carousel,” she remembers “that glorious voice you could ...