Showtune Sunday: All about Hugh Jackman who is heading back to Broadway!

It’s Official! Tony Award-winner Hugh Jackman will return to the New York stage next month in a new one-man show.

Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway, will play October 25 2011 to January 1 2012 at The Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 44th Street). The official opening night has been set for November 10.

Accompanied by an 18-piece orchestra, Hugh will perform a personal selection of his favorite musical numbers that reflect on the stage and film star’s remarkable life and career, from The Boy from Oz to Hollywood.

“I can’t believe it’s been 7 years since I was singing and dancing on Broadway,” the
Tony winner said in a statement last week. “There is nothing like performing on the Great White Way and I’m so excited to be coming ‘home.'”

The Broadway run will follow recent sold-out runs in San Francisco and Toronto.

Jackman has uniquely balanced a movie and theatre career that has made him a superstar on Broadway as well as at multiplexes around the world. On stage, he won critical kudos and awards for the Australian productions of Sunset Boulevard and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. In London he caused a sensation in Trevor Nunn’s staging of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! This was followed by a legendary Broadway debut portraying the 1970s singer-songwriter Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz, for which he received the 2004 Tony Award for Best Actor in a musical as well as Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards.