Shows · The Boy from Oz · Production, 2003
The Boy from Oz, 2003
Opened 2003
Closed September 12, 2004
364 performances
Original
Broadway
Of the productions that opened in the 2000s, this had the 61st longest run.
Who was in it34 named
Mitchel David Federan
Leslie Alexander
Brad Anderson
Kelly Crandall
Naleah Dey
Nicolas Dromard
Timothy A Fitz Gerald
Christopher Freeman
Tyler Hanes
Colleen Hawks
John Hill
Pamela Jordan
Tari Kelly
Stephanie Kurtzuba
Brian J Marcum
Jennifer Savelli
Matthew Stocke
Victoria Lecta Cave
Ramon Flowers
Ashley Amber Haase
Emily Hsu
Jessica Lea Patty
Nathan Peck
Trisha Rapier
Shane Rhoades
Creative team
- Director
- Philip William McKinley
- Choreographer
- Joey McKneely
- Orchestrations
- Michael Gibson 4
Recordings 1 released while this run was on
3 more exist for other runs of this show: see The Boy from Oz for all of them.
Around this production
The Boy from Oz is an Australian jukebox musical based on the life of singer and songwriter Peter Allen, featuring songs written by him. The book commissioned for the musical is by Nick Enright, based on Stephen MacLean's 1996 biography of Allen. Premiering in Australia in 1998 starring Todd McKenney, a revised version of the musical, written by Martin Sherman, opened on Broadway in 2003, with Hugh Jackman in the title role. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1998 the cast recording won the ARIA Award for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album.
Randomly. My agents called and said, “We know you’re busy with Wicked, but do you happen to ‘do’ a Liza Minnelli?” I said, “I don’t do a Liza Minnelli but I am very familiar with her work and her mother is my idol.” The audition felt like a “have-to.” Here S To the Ladies Conversations With More of the Great Eddie Shapiro Oxford U, p. 340
Jackman is magnificent, a true Broadway star who can do it all, and audiences eagerly await those times when he breaks the extremely fragile fourth wall.)
Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 125“Time has proven that nearly every fine actor can play Tevye, but when there’s talk about a revival of Half a Sixpence, people say, ‘But who these days can play the Tommy Steele role?’ It was the most exciting Broadway star debut performance until Hugh Jackman did The Boy from Oz.”
B007l4owcu Ebok Peter Filichia, p. 50In his acceptance speech, Jackman said that he had seen The Boy from Oz five years earlier in his native Australia: “I thought it was the best role I’ve seen for a guy in a long time.” He also said he was proud that The Boy from Oz was “the first Australian musical to make it to Broadway.”
B007l4owcu Ebok Peter Filichia, p. 293Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.