World Tour 2019

[Kelly]

Jan 2, 2019 17:15:31 GMT -5 carouselkathy said:

Anyone else going to the Hollywood Bowl on July 20?

Yes, juliefoz

[jo]

This was sometime ago - maybe when he was first promoting TGS ?? Wasn't it at the Walmart meet?

Look at how the kids love Hugh! That has been further reinforced when THE GREATEST SHOWMAN became a kid's favorite soundtrack to emulate

I'd love to see how they will react if some of them get a chance to watch him in his forthcoming show


JO

[jo]

Is this part of the training for TheManTheMusicTheShow… or just keeping fit

[jo]

I posted it initially in the right topic, after all ( and much to many fanboys disappointment)


www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6571219/Fans-speculate-Hugh-Jackman-return-Wolverine-sharing-workout-video.html

However, Hugh's representative has insisted he isn't training for a Wolverine return, telling PEOPLE magazine: 'He's prepping for his world arena tour. The Man. The Music. The Show.'

[jo]

Even People.com has gotten into the ( speculative) act

But... in the same breadth, denied the possibility...
while boosting the publicity for TheManTheMusicTheShow


people.com/movies/hugh-jackman-workout-wolverine-return-speculation/

Movies
Hugh Jackman's Is Back in '#Beastmode' at the Gym — Is He Playing Wolverine Again?!

Alexia Fernandez
January 08, 2019 04:53 PM

Is Hugh Jackman back as Wolverine?


Not exactly. The 50-year-old actor shared a video of himself Monday lifting weights for what he wrote was a “#cameo.”
“Gym Heckler. #dogpound #Bri #cameo,” he tweeted.

A rep for the actor tells PEOPLE, “He’s prepping for his world arena tour. The Man. The Music. The Show.”

Despite Jackman gearing up for his tour, which will showcase material from the soundtrack album of The Greatest Showman, fans began speculating he was returning to the role of Wolverine.


“#Beastmode,” one fan wrote with a gif of Jackman as Wolverine.

Gym Heckler. #dogpound #Bri #cameo pic.twitter.com/pLJuTW0H0M
— Hugh Jackman (@realhughjackman) January 7, 2019



#Beastmode 💪🏻 pic.twitter.com/igTjaYtaeC
— WolverSteve (@wolversteve) January 7, 2019


pic.twitter.com/qYxQqW63dL
— Philip Rodriguez (@pinoyakohahaha) January 7, 2019



When Huge Jackman begins uploading fitness pics/vids it usually only means one thing: pic.twitter.com/tQW9AeF3DG
— Michael Taylor (@thetaylor1982) January 7, 2019


The beast is still inside! U rock, Hugh!! 💪🏼💪🏼👍🏼
— Mombie 🙋🏻‍♀️ 🧟‍♂️ (@ninaackert) January 7, 2019


Another person tweeted, “When Hugh Jackman begins uploading fitness pics/vids it usually only means one thing,” while sharing a montage of Jackman in his various roles as the X-Men character.

“The beast is still inside! U rock, Hugh!!” A different fan tweeted.

Jackman announced the tour in November 2018 while on the TODAY Show in which he said, “It’s not Wolverine the Musical.”


“I am doing a big arena tour. This is a dream come true for me. I’ve done it in Australia but now I’m going to go around the world,” he shared. “I’m going to cities all over America, we’re going to Europe, we’re going to the U.K., we’re going back to Australia and New Zealand. I’m singing, I’m dancing, I’m telling stories.”

He added, “I’m going to sing stuff from The Greatest Showman, Les Miserables… stuff I auditioned for but didn’t get cast for. I’m just going to have a party.”

The Man. The Music. The Show kicks off in Hamburg, Germany on May 13.

[jo]

Did you scream as loud when you got tickets as a surprise Christmas gift

Or was it equally satisfying when you finally pressed the " Click to Pay" for your tickets

[jo]

The UK Theatre site WHATSONSTAGE.COM reports that TheMan,TheMusic.TheShow was the top seller on their sites for December 2018, beating all other theatre attrations!



www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/top-ten-selling-shows-whatsonstage-december_48274.html

1. Hugh Jackman

Various venues from May to June
Of course he's at number one! Hugh Jackman's solo show was big news when it was announced last year and, like you, we can't wait to see this greatest showman demonstrate his many talents on UK stages. And with news that he will be performing songs from Les Misérables, The Greatest Showman and The Boy From Oz you all have jumped on those tickets.

[jo]

[jo]

Fans are preparing for a singalong

Er… I wonder what they will do when they find out it is more like a Broadway show ( if what he says is true -- that as planned, that it may be formatted like BACK ON BROADWAY and BROADWAY TO OZ )


We can always sing to ourselves only

Jo

[jo]

Much of this group interview have been quoted in earlier media articles, but there are a few insights that are fresh --

www.broadwayworld.com/article/Hugh-Jackman-Prepares-For-His-Greatest-Show-Seven-Things-We-Learned-About-the-Triple-Threats-Upcoming-Tour-20190113

Hugh Jackman Prepares For His Greatest Show - Seven Things We Learned About the Triple Threat's Upcoming Tour!
by Paul Smith Jan. 13, 2019


Hugh Jackman is gearing up for a worldwide tour, fresh off the heels of the hugely successful film, The Greatest Showman. A true triple threat, he'll be singing, dancing and acting his way through many arenas around the world.

The tour will kick off with 12 shows across Europe and the UK beginning Monday, May 13th in Hamburg, Germany at Barclaycard Arena, with stops in Amsterdam, Paris, Manchester, Dublin, and London, with two shows at The O2 Arena. The 22-city North American leg will begin Tuesday, June 18th at Toyota Center in Houston, TX, with stops in Chicago, Toronto, Boston, Las Vegas, and New York, with two shows at Madison Square Garden, as well as two performances at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

Jackman sat down with BroadwayWorld after his performance on The Today Show to discuss what he has up his sleeve for his world tour The Man. The Music. The Show.




On the new audiences he has reached through The Greatest Showman:

"My very unscientific way of measuring success of films is being stopped on the street and I can tell you I've been stopped on the street so many more times for The Greatest Showman and young kids with their parents than any other thing I've ever done. My daughter has done dance for the last five years, and I go and watch her like any other parent and I just stand there... class finishes and we leave. Literally after The Greatest Showman I walked in class and hear these [whispers]. 60 young girls in their tutus going like "Oh P.T. Barnum, P.T. Barnum!" My daughter was like, "You are not coming to dance again!" It's completely changed and it excites me. I love the idea that we're going to have a family audience.

I love the idea these kids are going to hear songs from The Greatest Showman. They're also going to hear stuff from Les Mis. They might hear the great standards from Irving Berlin or Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly. There'll be no swearing, I tell you that."




How the soundtrack fueled the film:

"My agent taught me something I never heard before: Musicals work because of the book. People love them because of the music, so certainly the music was a really big key. The story had a lot of heart, it's a very earnest story about being yourself, following your dreams, not letting anyone else get in your way and being proud of that. Being proud of the quirky part of you. Don't spend all your energy trying to be like everybody else. That just seemed to come also at a time where collectively, people needed positivity and optimistic messages. It just seemed to come at a time where the world wanted to hear that, hear everything is going to be okay, hear that I can be me. The music was the key. And look, that album... someone told me it 21 weeks at number one in the UK, we just equaled to Adele I think... who could've ever expected that?"



On being the first live performance many people will see:

"I remember going to see my first thing live and it was at a high school. Little did I know that the lead part, the Man of La Mancha, was played by Hugo Weaving, who of course you all know, he went to my high school. I was not at the high school yet. My dad wanted to take me to see the school I was going to the next year, so I went along and I can replay it like a film in my head. I was mesmerized by it, I bought the album and I'll never forget it. That's probably where the spark came from for me to do it for the rest of my life. I never take it lightly. If it's your first time, or if it's your hundredth time, there's something sacred to me about live theatre, and I want people to feel when they come that something happened that night that only happened that night. It's a like a little secret we have... something between the thirty odd thousand of us... something's happening between us that you can only experience tonight."




On balancing the stage and film set:

"Being on stage or in arenas weirdly makes me sharper on a set and movie sets kind of equally help me onstage. They're different muscles. It's all still acting. It's still truth. We're all telling stories, but there is different things in the work. People ask me how I do it and it actually works for me to bounce around. That's where I feel happiest. For me, I'm better when I'm bouncing around."




On the different mindsets he'll inhabit while performing his concert:

"So I go up as Hugh and then I'll switch in, I'll act. When I perform Les Mis, I'll be Jean Valjean. Gaston, yeah it'd be really bad as Hugh to play Gaston. [Laughs] When Sinatra used to go for his sound checks, they were very long apparently and he would sit in the stool at the piano and he'd have the music out and someone said to him that he knew the songs by now and Frank responded saying he was reading the lyrics. Every time he sang, he had to get into the character of that song, so that's what I do."




The greatest showmen (or women) he's been inspired by:

"I'm going to say Hugo Weaving because he was the first. Michael Jackson, probably the greatest concert. [Justin] Timberlake does a similar thing. Eminem, Jay Z, Janelle Monáe, Chance The Rapper, Pink. Pink's connection to the audience made me cry. Colin Hay, Kristin Chenoweth, so many."



On coming back to Broadway:

"Oh yeah, I'm actively thinking about it right now. It's been so great having something like a one man show to dip in and out in between movies because it's a really difficult thing to find 18 months of your life to go to Broadway, but I'm ready, I'll be going back."


For more information and tickets, visit HughJackmanTheShow.com.
Photo Credit: Walter McBride / WM Photos

*It looks like he is expecting kids to be part of his audience  
I wonder what will be in store that would partly hew the show's appeal to the excited young minds?
Will he persuade some of them to join him onstage


*He has been teasing about his return to Broadway. How unusual that the Broadway chatterati has not caught on to this and someone has not spilled what it might be


*Also, what an amazing coincidence for me --

When I first came to America to study, the first live theatre performances I had seen were a serious play by Anton Chekov ( too serious for me!) at the Guthrie Theatre in Minnneapolis...then Funny Girl on Broadway... but it wasn't till the third professional theatre which I saw where the live show had such an emotional impact on me ( and made me feel how enthralling theatre can be!). That was Man of La Mancha, with Richard Kiley, in its original staging at a theatre in the round in Manhattan! Up to now, I can still picture in my mind the last scene where Miguel de Cervantes ( the prisoner who had been telling the story of Don Quijote de la Mancha) would climb up the stairs to where he would be tried and sentenced... I was crying towards the end! And what a way to be introduced to one of live theatre's most emotionally impactful song, The Impossible Dream!... Fast forward many, many years later -- I had already seen so many Broadway shows then but nothing had the same emotional impact on me ( as La Mancha) than when I first saw Les Miserables on Broadway!

Jo

[jo]

Hey, maybe Kristin and Hugh can reprise their famous duet for A FINE ROMANCE : "Anything you can do, I can do better!"


depositphotos.com/13049587/stock-photo-hugh-jackman-kristin-chenoweth.html


Jo

[jo]

A young woman from Surrey ( UK) is writing Hugh a song!

[jo]

It seems some people are assuming that the TheManTheMusicTheShow is a typical pop concert where there is a main singer who sings one song after another, with a front act from a relatively unknown talent. I have noted a few tweets which seem to indicate that this might be the expectation, such as this one --

Hugh has said that the forerunner will be Back on Broadway, further enhanced on Broadway to Oz. Presumably that is the kind of show we might expect. More of a personal story of the musical soundtrack in his mind …  Featuring songs which he has performed on stage and in film...and some others. He has also said that he will likely be able to feature some special guests ( such as Keala and others).

Hope audiences will find this format even more entertaining and very different!


Jo

[jo]

Will TheManTheMusicTheShow be like this --

[jo]

Back to rehearsals --

http://instagram.com/p/BtLXnRRnWHh

[jo]

He has been tap dancing for some time now - this was supposed to be rehearsals for the 2014 TONYs :




I can't seem to remember this rehearsal video from that time. It is supposed to have been posted on thehughjackman Instagram account?

[jo]

He's wearing a different shirt for this one, but it must have been from the same rehearsal period.

http://instagram.com/p/o9mx1QihPV

Another clip he posted re rehearsals for the 2014 TONYs --

http://instagram.com/p/oMlqJvChKx

Maybe what was different with the new clip was his synchronizing his taps with the drum beats!

http://instagram.com/p/BtLXnRRnWHh

[hughmanity]

Another tap rehearsal; this for BACK ON BROADWAY 

[jo]

He's got...rhythm!!


"I got rhythm, I got music, I got my show
Who could ask for anything more"


Hope he sings that again

[jo]

Hugh showed us that he could do tap for BACK ON BROADWAY ( 2011).

A the 2014 TONYs, he showed his tap dancing skills even more. Warren Carlyle directed a show then which featured a lot of dance ( can't remember the name)...and at the same time, Hugh was invited to host the show. He turned to his former dance captain in Oklahoma! and Back on Broadway choreographer/director Warren Carlyle for those dance moves with an incredible troupe of dancers!


And in 2015, they worked together on "Broadway to Oz" --

http://instagram.com/p/7nwplTihE3

http://instagram.com/p/-FfbfQihMZ

[jo]

And it looks like he's been working on his dance moves with SaraCathleen and Eric ( the drummer) since mid-year 2018!

http://instagram.com/p/BjemQgUHJ2z

[mamaleh]

Jan 29, 2019 20:37:31 GMT -5 jo said:

Hugh showed us that he could do tap for BACK ON BROADWAY ( 2011).

A the 2014 TONYs, he showed his tap dancing skills even more. Warren Carlyle directed a show then which featured a lot of dance ( can't remember the name)...and at the same time, Hugh was invited to host the show. He turned to his former dance captain in Oklahoma! and Back on Broadway choreographer/director Warren Carlyle for those dance moves with an incredible troupe of dancers!


And in 2015, they worked together on "Broadway to Oz" --

http://instagr.am/p/7nwplTihE3

http://instagr.am/p/-FfbfQihMZ

Jo, that 2014 show was AFTER MIDNIGHT.

Ellen

[jo]

When you think of the physicality aspects -- Hugh is not exactly doing a 180-degree turn

He once said that action choreography is much the same as dance choreography. He mastered a lot of action choreography during the 17 years he was associated with the XMen franchise and even in movies like Van Helsing/Swordfish/The Fountain ( first part). The movements required may be slightly different but the physical demands are both tremendous! The discipline of repeated and exhaustive training must be at par with each other. Dance does require a lot of foot movements but fight scenes require a lot of other capabilities ( swinging on wires/ arm movements for fight scenes/body movements for fight scenes). Who could say that the train fight in THE WOLVERINE would be less difficult than all the dancing on Back on Broadway! And the danger of being hurt is higher for fight scenes than dance scenes.


Hugh has maintained a fit regime ( and not just when occasion demands it), even without action movie commitments! Dance is only one way to keep fit and probably be much more enjoyable than what he does at Dogpound?


Hugh has tried different ways to maintain his physical talents -- for dance, he has worked with various choreographers - Warren Carlyle, Ken Ortega for TBFO-Arena ( loved his Fosse-like moves for Hugh in that Guys-and-Dolls dance sequence), the choreo for TBFO ( including the Tonys 2004)… and more recently, Ash Wallen for The Greatest Showman ( Hugh said he had to learn new dance movements for TGS; he also worked with Ash for the Lipton Tea Commercial which featured exhaustive dancing). Even on the singing level, he has had different voice teachers -- including the one who trained him every week for Beauty and the Beast, Joan Lader who worked with him for a long time, Russell Crowe's voice teacher who helped Hugh on the set of Les Miserables, Liz Caplan who coached him for The Greatest Showman.

So, the upcoming tour is not going to be a very stark departure from his usual routine!


*He probably sings at home, as often as he feels like ( subject to objections from Oscar, when Hugh does too much of it) - LOL!
*But his family will be standing guard during the tour to make sure that Hugh " lives like a monk" - no talking and constant rest when home at the hotels - which he did at home for a year for TBFO!


Jo

[jo]

Thanks, Ellen. I wish I could find a clip of that TONYs sequence -- I was like WOW when Hugh came out with that group which can outdance even the best from the troupe in From Now On!


Edit: I looked for a clip and chanced upon a review of the 2014 TONYs by Rolling Stone -- argghh!!!


They took offense at Hugh's hopping and dancing and rapping! They said that even Hugh's inserting himself into the dance sequence of AFTER MIDNIGHT could NOT ruin it! And called Hugh's jokes as carbon-dated - ha! LOL!

Now it doesn't surprise me that Rolling Stone's Peter Travers rated THE GREATEST SHOWMAN 1.5 of 4 stars! Ha! Although he gave LOGAN 3.5 of 4 stars!
Moral of the story : Don't invite Peter Travers to see the show or charge him $ 10,000 for a nosebleed seat Jk


Jo

[jo]

Was it just to enjoy themselves… or was he already testing the waters at MSG

Jo