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* DrHorrible is a tenor-voiced {{adorkable}}, naive, (mostly) innocent, hopelessly romantic ShrinkingViolet... who is a WellIntentionedExtremist VillainProtagonist.

* Macheath in ''TheThreepennyOpera'' is sometimes played like this ironically, and many performances have him singing the "Epitaph" in a sincere tenor, just to accentuate what a two-faced bastard he is.

* Anthony in ''SweeneyTodd'' has the range of a typical lyric baritone, though he can be played by a tenor.

* While a side character, there is a tenor boy in ''TheCookTheTheifHisWifeAndHerLover'' who has ambigious age and has a beautiful voice.

* [[GilbertAndSullivan Gilbert & Sullivan]] with Grosvenor and Strephon in Patience and Iolanthe, both being lyric baritones (though Strephon originally played by bass Richard Temple).

* Charlie in ''{{Brigadoon}}''.

* In the opera ''{{Salome}}'', Jokanaan is a baritone, while Herod the king is a tenor.

* Tommy in Brigadoon, though he's a tad older
* Hero in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Played for laughs, too.

* [[PorgyAndBess Porgy]], an ingenue in love if not in age, is a bass-baritone; the bad guy Sportin' Life is a tenor.

* Marius Pontmercy in ''[[{{Theatre/ptitlenjisnv3p}} Les Misérables]]'' is rather tricky to place. He is often played by tenors, but has a slightly lower tessitura. However, he does fit the stereotype perfectly.

* Tony in ''WestSideStory''. He is, after all, based on [[RomeoAndJuliet Romeo]], who by stereotype is pretty much incapable of being anything but a tenor.

* Rodolfo from ''[[LaBoheme La Bohème]]''.

*** Aschenbach is an aging writer who likes {{Bishounen}}s.

* Gilbert & Sullivan have quite a few straight examples as well, with the most famous being Nanki-Poo and Frederic from ''The Mikado'' and ''{{The Pirates of Penzance}}'', respectively.

** Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly is a heartless bastard, very similar to the Duke.

* Surprisingly averted in ''BillyBudd,'' in which the titular character is a baritone.
* Britten subverted this all the time. Living with a tenor who was definitely not an ingenue might have something to do with it.
** Aschenbach is an aging writer who likes {{Bishounen}}s.
** The Madwoman in ''CurlewRiver'' is a drag role.
** Captain Vere from ''BillyBudd'' is a father figure in the flashback part and very old (or possibly even undead) in the Prologue/Epiloge.
** Played straight, though, in ''AlbertHerring'' and ''OwenWingrave''.

* Verde's opera ''Rigoletto'' subverts the trope. The Duke is a good-looking tenor that all the girls fall for, but he's the opposite of an innocent - he's a ManipulativeBastard who doesn't care what happens to the women he seduces and abandons.

* In Bock and Harnick's more famous show, ''{{Fiddler on the Roof}}'', Perchik--though only arguably classified as an ingenue--is also a lyric baritone. Although Anthony can be played by a tenor too.

* Anthony in ''SweeneyTodd'' has the range of a typical lyric baritone.

* Marius Pontmercy in ''LesMiserables'' is rather tricky to place. He is often played by tenors, but has a slightly lower tessitura. However, he does fit the stereotype perfectly.

* In Bock and Harnick's more famous show, ''{{Fiddler on the Roof}}'', Perchik--though only arguably classified as an ingenue--is also a lyric baritone.

* Gilbert & Sullivan, again, with Nanki-Poo and Frederic from ''The Mikado'' and ''{{The Pirates of Penzance}}'', respectively.

* Porgy, an ingenue in love if not in age, is a bass-baritone; the bad guy Sportin' Life is a tenor.

* Rodolfo from ''La bohème''.

* The particularly boyish Arpad in ''{{She Loves Me}}'' is a lyric baritone.

* The same goes for Freddy in ''{{My Fair Lady}}''.

* Anthony in ''{{Sweeney Todd}}'' has the range of a typical lyric baritone.

** The Madwoman in Curlew River is a drag role.
** Captain Vere from {{Billy Budd}} is a father figure in the flashback part and very old (or possibly even undead) in the Prologue/Epiloge.
** Played straight, though, in {{Albert Herring}} and {{Owen Wingrave}}.
* CB of {{Starlight Express}}, who while starting out like a stereotypicial TenorBoy, is soon revealed to be a giddy and sociopathic AxCrazy SerialKiller.

* Marius Pontmercy in ''{{Les Miserables}}'' is rather tricky to place. He is often played by tenors, but has a slightly lower tessitura. However, he does fit the stereotype perfectly.

* Jack in ''{{Into the Woods}}'', sooo much.
* Buddy Foster in ''{{Side Show}}''.
* Quasimodo in ''{{The Hunchback Of Notre Dame}}'' stage version.

* Henrik of Sondheim's ''{{A Little Night Music}}'', though a bit unconventional, fits this trope quite well.

* Tony in ''{{West Side Story}}''. He is, after all, based on [[RomeoAndJuliet Romeo]], who by stereotype is pretty much incapable of being anything but a tenor.

* Melchior Gabor in ''{{Spring Awakening}}''.
* While usually a bit older than the average ingenue, Leo Bloom in ''{{The Producers}}'' fits.
* Mickey Johnstone ''and'' Eddie Lyons in ''{{Blood Brothers}}''.

There are practically too many examples of this to name, so it might be easier to start by naming exceptions:

Now for the straight examples (the more notable ones at least):

* Rodolfo from La bohème.
* Des Grieux form Manon Lescaut.

* Rudolf in Elisabeth.
* The title character in Leonard Bernstein's ''Candide''
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