World Tour 2019

[luzie]

Oct 2, 2019 18:07:34 GMT -5 hughmanity said:

I'll take him scruff or no scruff...as long as his hair isn't too short!  His hair is beautiful.😍

Oct 2, 2019 9:34:52 GMT -5 luzie said:

I'm no fan of his current look! Usually I love him with stubble - more than clean-shaven - but this gray-white scruff isn't very flattering IMO! It makes him older than he is and makes him look a bit scruffy. And it doesn't fit to his concert and his concert suits (particularly not to his silver jacket). Also, "Peter" with a gray and white hair scrub indeed doesn't compute. Since this will be his supposed look for Reminiscence, I hope he won't have a full beard - or hopefully his beard will be dyed at least for the movie! A gray-white (full) beard would really turn me off!

I have the feeling, that many fans on Twitter belong to a certain group of new fans, who just "love" everything and repeat the agenda that a few others of them set! Most of them have probably never heard anything about Wolverine before they became fans through Greatest Showman, so I doubt it's a hangover from the good old Wolverine days for them.

LOL I know it's shallow, ludicrous and complaining about first world problems. LOL As I said, usually I prefer him with stubble to clean-shaven, but this gray-white scrub turns me off. And I think, it's in particular unsuitable for his show. I don't mind his hair. I like shorter hair more - one of my favorite looks is still his Charlie Kenton look - but as long as his longer top layer of hair isn't styled again as a sort of pompadour hairstyle, longer hair is ok, too. LOL

On a related note regarding his supposed look in Reminiscence, since Rebecca is 15 years younger than him and plays his love interest, they shouldn't necessarily make him look even older with a gray-white (or full) beard than he actually is. It could be unwise to play any gender interest groups, that might criticize the age gap, into the hands and give them more needless reasons for their foolish complaints.

[jo]

I am going to guess about Reminiscence (aka Jade Earring) --

It is not a straightforward story in terms of the time sequence...so I will leave judgment until we know more about the film itself ( I have read the first draft of the script...but things could change).What I can say is it is not the romantic story that we conventionally think of -- it is very complicated. And the character that Rebecca Ferguson plays is far from the glamorous Jenny Lind we saw in The Greatest Showman.

Besides, I was only guessing that the new Jackman facial hair is related to the movie ( although because of the sequence of events, it is very likely … as he is starting filming as soon as he wraps the tour). Hugh has shown us different head hair in many of his films/stage shows -- sometimes they are a consequence of what he has done before ( he had the slightly-longer-than-a-buzz cut for The River because he had recently completed filming PAN where he was bald). The bearded look of Keller Dover in Prisoners was likely because he was due to start filming Days of Future Past eventually? While he appeared bald as Tommy the space traveler in The Fountain, nothing could be worse than his look as the convict Valjean pulling those ropes on the ship dockyard! They really messed up his hair and scalp! When he puts on unglamorous looks, you know that his primary interest is to actualize a character portrayal as well as the storyline intended!

At age 50, he is not going to look all that young and therefore some roles are no longer age-appropriate... and I can live with that. But given his well-chiseled looks, he is going to be somewhat more aristocratic-looking (just as how Patrick Stewart has aged and is now in his 80's) than Hollywood glamor boy. I don't mind that - I would like to see him in meatier character roles and for him to develop further as a standcout dramatic actor. Of course, in Hollywood now, look at the current crop of 50-and-above actors -- the best ones are not being cast aside. Of course that depends on whether he becomes a more powerful draw for the filmmakers ( maybe with a series of excellent performances, this will come, too).

I asked the question "Quo vadis, Hugh Jackman?" after he said he was giving up his iconic superhero role and had not fully established his film musical credentials. LOGAN was a surprise - he showed us how excellent an actor ( in drama, too) he can be, despite the action-oriented nature of the movie! It is heartening to note that Showman further proved that he can be a powerful draw in movie musicals. And now that he is dipping his toes more seriously into drama ( Front Runner, Bad Education...and hopefully, to some extent, Reminiscence, aka Jade Earring) maybe he has found another acting hat that he wears well as he moves more and more into middle-aged roles!

Just my personal thoughts - not asking anyone to think in a similar fashion

Jo


PS: One of my favorite actors is Sean Connery ( I actually saw him in the first James Bond movie, Dr No ("Bond, James Bond" were first uttered in that movie), when it was first released because I read the early Bond books by Ian Fleming before they became a movie franchise. He only stopped acting a few years ago ( or has he, really?). But wasn't he voted as People's Sexiest Man Alive a second time around no more than 10 years ago ( after Hugh getting the title) - proving that elderly gentlemen do not lose their sex appeal even when they become senior citizens! Loved him again as Harrison Ford's Dad in the Indiana Jones series ( Imagine playing Dad to Harrison Ford? )… What do Hugh, Sean, and Harrison have in common? A strong manly charm and very masculine appeal. That is not going to go away

[jo]

[ruby]

There are a lot of unsold tickets for the last leg of Hugh’s tour. Looking around ticketmaster you’ll see a lot of blue.

In Boston the empty seats were very noticeable. The Boston Garden’ s staff did a very efficient job of moving people into those empty seats just prior to showtime. There have been a few tweets of people boasting of their upgrades.
And this morning a Google Alert shows a veterans group thanking AEG for the donation of free tickets. They resorted to seat fillers.

It makes me wonder why producers wanted this last leg. It seems a natural end would have been Australia and New Zealand. Sure, there was no predicting sales but I wonder if this was just the profit run...these last dozen shows for profit after a recoup of the tour production nut? Or maybe they were needed to just break even? Perhaps I shouldn’t be applying Broadway financial mindsets and big tours see substantial profit margins regularly?

[njr]

Oct 3, 2019 7:46:29 GMT -5 luzie said:

Oct 2, 2019 18:07:34 GMT -5 hughmanity said:

I'll take him scruff or no scruff...as long as his hair isn't too short!  His hair is beautiful.😍

LOL I know it's shallow, ludicrous and complaining about first world problems. LOL As I said, usually I prefer him with stubble to clean-shaven, but this gray-white scrub turns me off. And I think, it's in particular unsuitable for his show. I don't mind his hair. I like shorter hair more - one of my favorite looks is still his Charlie Kenton look - but as long as his longer top layer of hair isn't styled again as a sort of pompadour hairstyle, longer hair is ok, too. LOL

On a related note regarding his supposed look in Reminiscence, since Rebecca is 15 years younger than him and plays his love interest, they shouldn't necessarily make him look even older with a gray-white (or full) beard than he actually is. It could be unwise to play any gender interest groups, that might criticize the age gap, into the hands and give them more needless reasons for their foolish complaints.

😂 I agree - don’t like this gray/white short beard. I would like him with a bit of scruff if he shaved his neck, but he never does, so I prefer clean-shaven. And his hair looks good now. Didn’t like the real short sides he had for a couple weeks!

[chessie]

Oct 3, 2019 12:26:33 GMT -5 njr said:

Oct 3, 2019 7:46:29 GMT -5 luzie said:

LOL I know it's shallow, ludicrous and complaining about first world problems. LOL As I said, usually I prefer him with stubble to clean-shaven, but this gray-white scrub turns me off. And I think, it's in particular unsuitable for his show. I don't mind his hair. I like shorter hair more - one of my favorite looks is still his Charlie Kenton look - but as long as his longer top layer of hair isn't styled again as a sort of pompadour hairstyle, longer hair is ok, too. LOL

On a related note regarding his supposed look in Reminiscence, since Rebecca is 15 years younger than him and plays his love interest, they shouldn't necessarily make him look even older with a gray-white (or full) beard than he actually is. It could be unwise to play any gender interest groups, that might criticize the age gap, into the hands and give them more needless reasons for their foolish complaints.

😂 I agree - don’t like this gray/white short beard. I would like him with a bit of scruff if he shaved his neck, but he never does, so I prefer clean-shaven. And his hair looks good now. Didn’t like the real short sides he had for a couple weeks!

I know it was a long time ago, but my all-time favorite look for Hugh was when he hosted the Oscars. Clean-shaven with perfectly styled hair. Even more swoon-worthy than usual. As good as it gets!

Carol

[jo]

A review - minute by minute!


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[Kelly]

Oct 3, 2019 10:50:12 GMT -5 ruby said:

There are a lot of unsold tickets for the last leg of Hugh’s tour. Looking around ticketmaster you’ll see a lot of blue.

In Boston the empty seats were very noticeable. The Boston Garden’ s staff did a very efficient job of moving people into those empty seats just prior to showtime. There have been a few tweets of people boasting of their upgrades.
And this morning a Google Alert shows a veterans group thanking AEG for the donation of free tickets. They resorted to seat fillers.

It makes me wonder why producers wanted this last leg. It seems a natural end would have been Australia and New Zealand. Sure, there was no predicting sales but I wonder if this was just the profit run...these last dozen shows for profit after a recoup of the tour production nut? Or maybe they were needed to just break even? Perhaps I shouldn’t be applying Broadway financial mindsets and big tours see substantial profit margins regularly?

I've noticed and wondered the same thing.

[jo]

http://instagram.com/p/B3NcqMJHhQM

Swipe further for more photos.

[jo]

Hugh and Keala -- great, great friends!

It all started with THE GREATEST SHOWMAN...and then further into TheManTheMusicTheShow!


www.broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-Interview-Keala-Settle-Opens-Up-About-Why-She-Just-Cant-Wait-to-Get-on-the-Road-Again-with-Hugh-Jackman-20191005

BWW Interview: Keala Settle Opens Up About Why She Just Can't Wait to Get on the Road Again with Hugh Jackman
The 'This Is Me' singer tells us what the song taught her about herself.
by Nicole Rosky Oct. 5, 2019



She's already done Broadway and the big screen. Now Keala Settle is taking on the world... alongside Hugh Jackman.
As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the Tony nominee will rejoin the song and dance man for the final leg of his world tour-The Man. The Music. The Show. Since launching the worldwide tour in May with sold out shows across Europe and the UK including six shows at the O2 in London, Jackman and the 193-person cast and crew headed to the States in June and July for a 22 concert-run which included three sold out shows at Madison Square Garden and two sold out shows at the Hollywood Bowl.

Settle, who previously starred with Jackman in the 2017 mega-hit The Greatest Showman, has been along for the ride, appearing as a special guest in most of Jackman's international shows. Earlier this week, they continued the tour at Boston's TD Garden arena and and prepare for upcoming performances in Uniondale, Newark, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Chicago, Indianapolis, Kansas City, San Antonio, and Mexico City.

Settle checked in with BroadwayWorld earlier this week to tell us all about life after the Bearded Lady, how one special song changed her life, and why she just can't get enough of Hugh.

How did this start? Did Hugh just come to you and say, "Hey, wanna tour the world with me?"

Yep! That is literally exactly how it went down. [Laughs]


And how can you say no to that?

I was trepidatious at the start actually, because I was fresh out of brain surgery. It had been six or seven months when he asked me. I was great, but a little bit worried about that. But then I just said to myself, "Well, if I'm not gonna do it now, when am I gonna do it?" So I jumped at the chance.



What's it been like being around Hugh again?

I never stopped seeing him! Even though the film finished, we are basically family. We never stopped seeing each other. When I was in New York or when he was in Los Angeles, we would always make time for the family. It's great because he is like my brother. He is somebody who has been one of my biggest champions, above and beyond my own self. He's helped me come out of my shell in so many ways. He 's a really great guy. He's just a really nice guy, who happens to also be Wolverine. [Laughs]


Do you remember the first time you met Hugh? What were your first impressions of him?

I don't think I really had one. As a Broadway performer, when you're working the hustle, you're just like, "Oh great, so-and-so is here. How much is this check and will it pay for my rent for the month?" That's the mindset that you're in. So I don't think I really had an impression that first time, because I was more worried about paying my rent. That's the hustle- it's what Broadway is. The second you book a job, you're trying to book four more.



I watched him introduce you at the Madison Square Garden show and he talked about all of the ways he admires you. What do you admire the most about him?

That what you see is what you get. We are in a day-and-age when people are so hung up on creating a persona. Hugh is just Hugh. It's not his job, it's who he is. It's without apology, without any kind of anger or malice towards anyone. There is no hidden agenda. Especially being a part of this industry, you doubt that. There must be something going on here! But truly, he is genuine.



Obviously you're singing "This Is Me" on this tour. Can you tease anything else that you'll be doing?

Yes! When we were in Australia, he asked me to sing a song that I wrote. I've actually written a lot of songs and I'm in the process of putting together an album. I didn't really want to tell anyone about it, but I ended up performing it because he asked me to. I was petrified to do it. But I ended up doing it for our entire run in Australia and New Zealand.
The song is called "Harder." It actually wasn't even released at the time, but once I did it, Hugh said, "Keala, you need to put this on iTunes." And I said, "Screw you, I'm not doing that!" [Laughs] So he got a hold of my record producer, Greg Wells, and told him that it had to happen. So basically, Hugh Jackman became my music manager. I couldn't fight it. So about a week and a half after I was performing it, it went up on iTunes, Spotify, and Amazon Music. We're shooting a video for it later this month, when I have some spare time between shows.


How great that you'll get to perform it again!

Yes, in this last leg. He asked me about it and I said, "Well, I don't know..." and he was like, "Really Keala?!" [Laughs]. It was a song that I wrote for suicide prevention week last year. It's an issue that is very close to home for me. I had just decided to flesh it out in a song along with a couple of other people. We all got into a room and put it together.


I'm sure that The Greatest Showman experience was a whirlwind for you for a while. Now that you have a little bit of distance, how do you look back on it?

The funny thing is that there is no distance. It's still going! I'm on the road with Hugh! If anything it's given me the opportunity to learn how to take my own advice. "This is Me" and the character I played were one thing, but originally I was not that person. The song come first, so I had to grow into that song. It's taken me two plus years to figure out what that means for myself and how I can expand from that creatively. It's been a massive learning experience for me.



"This Is Me" is a song that means a lot to a lot of people. I'm sure you get people stopping you to tell you how important it is...

I just went into a PetSmart yesterday to pick up my puppy's medicine and this girl was with her dog and asked to take a picture. And I was like "Sure, you can take a picture of my dog!" and she said, "No, of you!" And I couldn't understand why. Then she just went off. Yes, it's still happening.



You made your Broadway debut in 2011 in Priscilla Queen of the Desert. I think it's safe to say that your life has changed a lot since then. Do you have 'pinch me' moments of "How did I get here?"

I have those moments every day, and honestly, they're more nostalgic than anything else. I wake up every day in a really comfortable place on the other side of the country. It doesn't seem real a lot of the time, but I know that it can disappear at any second. That is not lost on me.

It helps me in turn to understand the ramifications of the song that I sang. I sang the song and I remember telling Hugh, "Don't come and find me. I'm leaving as soon as this film is over. I don't want to see anybody. I don't wan't to sing this song." It's a diary entry. Channeling that and being that are two different things. I had to learn about myself and why I was able to channel that. I figured out what that meant to me, because it seemed like everyone else was reaping the benefits of the message of the song except for me. And I was singing it! [Laughs] It was a learning experience of who I really am. I didn't know who I was.


You have a dozen shows coming up over the next month. What are you most looking forward to?

I'm looking forward to being in the US. I haven't done many cities here, as far as this tour is concerned. I've had the privilege of playing many of these cities being on Broadway tours, but never with a man like this; never with a crew like this. It was a different life. It's nice to be able to go back and have this opportunity to revisit these cities with new eyes and new lease on life.

Actress and singer Keala Settle is the breakout star of 20th Century Fox's, The Greatest Showman, alongside Hugh Jackman. The Hawaii native's performance of the film's Oscar-nominated song "This Is Me" became an explosive anthem of self-acceptance, propelling the soundtrack to the top of the charts worldwide. Her performance at the 2018 Academy Awards brought the entire audience to their feet with a performance that The New York Times applauded as "commanding" and a perfect summation of "what became the themes of the night - diversity, empowerment, [and] inclusion."

For more information please visit HughJackmanTheShow.com.

[jo]

Early signs of the budding friendship --

Oct 20, 2016 7:23:44 GMT -5 jo said:

Check out Keala Settle's Twitter account. She has just left the show WAITRESS and announces in her Twitter description the next role she is playing

twitter.com/kealasettle?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Keala Settle
@kealasettle
POLYNESIAN THRU & THRU. Currently sporting a beard for an awesome film!!!

The Bearded Lady!!



She also posted this a day after Hugh's birthday --

Keala Settle ‏@kealasettle Oct 13
Dear thehughjackman thank you for being borned and liking chocolate banana cake. #dinnerisserved

http://instagr.am/p/BLhRK0bAPlh

Oct 29, 2016 9:48:04 GMT -5 jo said:

Lissa Smith ‏@smileitssmith 30m
30 minutes ago


Yesterday I spent quality time with @realhughjackman. He was eating and I was walking behind him. #showday @abarukasdance #bernadac

That looks like Hugh ( wearing a Global Citizen T-shirt) ...and seated next to him looks like Keala?


Jo

Jan 16, 2017 4:38:28 GMT -5 jo said:

http://instagr.am/p/BPK09tTg8cw

The THANK YOU note came from The Producers! Could Keala's most important scene and song have been filmed lately?

IMDB listed Hugh as a producer but he remained an uncredited one in the movie credits.



For the Oscar nomination for THIS IS ME - an Instagram thank you!

http://instagram.com/p/BebXqLfhG7v

http://instagram.com/p/Bc8OTGjB4s5

[jo]

[jo]

Whatever you call the warmup they do before a theatrical show - vocal warmup/body movements warmup/sound check/etc --

[jo]

[jo]

http://instagram.com/p/B3RpfQqnECU

[jo]

Oct 6, 2019 17:45:57 GMT -5 jo said:

How Hugh is looking these days --

I could be wrong --

but I am getting more and more convinced that he is developing the look for REMINISCENCE ( aka TJE). I think I even know when the look will likely come in the storyline.


Jo

http://instagram.com/p/B3SwZtLJ1wA

Hmm... 8 of the 10 men are wearing facial hair

[jo]

Take my hand
Will you share this with me?
'Cause darling without you

All the shine of a thousand spotlights
All the stars we steal from the nightsky
Will never be enough

[jo]

A friend from The Front Runner --

Someone also told me that she ran into Beth Fowler ( Peter's Mum) in TBFO at Newark.

[jo]

[jo]

It's ONE DAY MORE this time

[jo]

WOW!!! Sounds like he is on a Broadway stage!! Go-for-broke belting away

[jo]

[jo]

[jo]

Hugh also mentions that friend Anna Wintour ( Vogue Editor-In-Chief) is in the audience. The Devil Wears Prada