The producers of Broadway’s hit musical revival The Music Man will end the show’s successful run on Jan. 1, 2023, when star Hugh Jackman exits after a year a Professor Harold Hill.
The producers of Broadway’s hit musical revival The Music Man will end the show’s successful run on Jan. 1, 2023, when star Hugh Jackman exits after a year a Professor Harold Hill.
“The Music Man”, Broadway’s hit musical revival starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster is coming to an end.
Tony Awards. Jackman, who has been starring in Meredith Wilson’s “The Music Man” on Broadway, announced that he tested positive on Instagram Monday and said standby actor Max Clayton will step into the role of Harold Hill in his place. “I wanted you guys to hear it from me first that unfortunately, this morning I have frustratingly tested positive for COVID again, so my incredible standby Max Clayton is going to go on for me,” he said in a video statement.The 53-year-old actor and his Broadway co-star Sutton Foster performed a number from “The Music Man” at the Tony Awards Sunday.
NEW YORK -- Hugh Jackman is playing one of musical theater's greatest con men on Broadway these days but he's not fooling anyone: He's the real deal.As Harold Hill in a glorious and exuberant new revival of “The Music Man,” Jackman is like a coiled spring, effortlessly leaping onto desks, two-stepping with kids, tossing books into the air and pounding out a rhythm on his thighs. He's even magnetic in a romantic clinch.“That man is a spellbinder,” someone notes and you'll have no argument here.
“The Music Man” swung into high gear last Thursday thanks to one “swing actor.”Two-time Tony Award winner Hugh Jackman took a few moments out of Thursday’s preview to thank his co-star for the evening, and got a little “emotional” while doing so.Jackman, 53, plays charming con artist Harold Hill in Meredith Wilson’s ragtime musical, opposite Sutton Foster, 46, as do-gooder piano teacher Marian.But when Foster, 46, became suddenly unavailable for the show’s fourth preview, understudy Kathy
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