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<em>This guy just seems sooooo nice in interviews.</em><strong>Jackman Takes Up Piano Lessons To Master Broadway Debut</strong>imdb.comX-Men star Hugh Jackman is so determined to wow audiences in his Broadway, New York, debut as flamboyant performer Peter Allen - he's learning to play the piano. The Aussie actor returns to his musical roots to play the Australian song-and- dance man in The Boy From Oz this autumn - and he's making sure he looks great on stage. He knows he has to be at the top of his game after seeing Allen perform when he was a child. Jackman says, "I just figure if Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep can learn instruments for a role I can. I did study piano for six years when I was younger." He has also adopted a rigorous fitness regime to make sure he's in tip-top shape for his nightly turns as Allen. He adds, "I've been sort of training, doing some yoga, and trying to stretch and get into shape. I've completely gone off sugar and coffee - and I love coffee - because I figured there's so much adrenaline you use in the show."

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<img src='http://i.timeinc.net/people/images/photo/celebsnaps/030901/pophjackman.jpg' alt='Posted Image' class='bbc_img' /></p><p>MUSIC MAN: Hugh Jackman gets his groove on while rehearsing along with fellow cast members for his new Broadway musical, The Boy from Oz. The show, about the late Australian musician Peter Allen, goes into previews on Sept. 16.</p><p>(Dave Allocca/startraksphoto.com)

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<em>Older pic I had in "random celeb pics" thread, but thought I'd post over here too.</em></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src='http://i.timeinc.net/people/images/photo/celebsnaps/030818/pophjackman.jpg' alt='Posted Image' class='bbc_img' /></p><p>WIZARD OF OZ: Multitalented Aussie Hugh Jackman signs autographs and camps it up on the first day of ticket sales for his broadway debut, The Boy from Oz. The musical, in which Jackman portrays the late entertainer Peter Allen, opens in October.</p><p>( Scott Gries/Getty Images)

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COSTUMER BARES B'WAY EGOS &nbsp;Page Six<strong>FANS who see Hugh Jackman in "The Boy From Oz," a Broadway take on the flamboyant life of choreographer Peter Allen, won't get to see as much of the Australian hunk as Carl Goldberg did.Goldberg is the shirtmaker-to-the-stars who also helped costume the cast of "Hairspray," "Urinetown," "Gypsy," "Little Shop" and three productions of "Mamma Mia!"</strong>While Goldberg's costumes are top-notch, his backstage banter is even better. The wardrober sees Broadway's biggest stars without makeup and the tales he has to tell about them would make a fine production in its own right.<strong>Jackman, for instance, shared his belief that he possesses the legs of a showgirl. While Goldberg admits they were long, they weren't his cup of tea.</strong>"Jason Alexander perspires so much, he wears a special anti-perspirant on his head so he won't short out the microphones," Goldberg tells PAGE SIX's Michael Rovner. "They had a really difficult time finding a suit to fit him. He's a fireplug, and he knows it."Nathan Lane , while being measured for his costumes in "The Producers," gave Goldberg a dramatic reading of "his most bizarre fan mail from a crackpot stalker fan, and Nathan was being Nathan which is terribly amusing." It wasn't the only fun Goldberg had with the show. "I'm a nice Jewish boy whose favorite task is measuring the stormtrooper babes," says Goldberg of the curvy chorus girls featured in the "Springtime for Hitler" number.Goldberg calls Shakespeare in the Park star John Goodman a "two-tape measure customer. Everyone at the Public Theater said he hates to be measured because he's so big, but he was as nice as can be."In 20 years of making shirts, the self-described "second-generation garmento" calls Bronson Pinchot , another Shakespeare in the Park actor, his toughest challenge. "I began to measure him and he leapt away, it was very weird, and then he left without a fitting."While Goldberg's fashion credentials include stints with Tommy Hilfiger, Geoffrey Beene and Sean John, the biggest diva he ever had to deal with was Donna Karan 's dog "who made himself comfortable on a pile of Italian cashmere sweaters worth $5,000 and all the assistants were afraid to do anything because of who his master was."

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<strong>Critics Love Jackman, But Not His Show</strong>STEPHEN M. SILVERMANpeople.comHunky Hugh Jackman , whose mere presence as the lead in "The Boy from Oz," helped generate a $10 million box-office advance for the new musical, opened on Broadway Thursday night.The critics collectively adored him as the late Australian singer-songwriter Peter Allen. And, just as collectively, they scorned the material he's saddled with."Let's make this simple," writes Clive Barnes in the Post. "The show's plus is its superstar. The show's minus is the show itself.""As a show, 'The Boy From Oz' sometimes seems like an expanded drag act," writes Howard Kissel in the News, while the headline on Michael Kuchwara's Associated Press story bluntly states, "Hugh Jackman Can't Save 'Boy From Oz.'"As for The New York Times, generally considered to be the final word on theater, critic Ben Brantley, in his review, ponders how an "able-bodied, infinitely appealing young man" like the "X-Men" star can bear to carry the "burden" of such an "indisputably bogus" and "pathetic" show as "Oz.""Don't even get me started on the aspiring clever double entendres that pass for sophisticated dialogue," Brantley says of Martin Sherman's book, which, the Wall Street Journal's Terry Teachout considers "the theatrical equivalent of a cheesy TV movie." (Teachout does concede that his female friends consider Jackman "babelicious.")The Washington Post's Peter Marks thinks the entire endeavor just should have been called "Hugh Jackman's Chest Hair! The Musical."Before the opening, Jackman, 34, told Show People magazine (no relation to PEOPLE): "Peter is an amazing part. He was cheeky, and could be catty and nasty. He slept with women and men, whomever, whenever. ? Everything about him was 'aahhhh.'"How the critical reaction will ultimately affect "The Boy from Oz" remains to be seen. Traditionally, when a star of Jackman's magnitude leaves a weak show (a classic example is "Coco," which starred Katharine Hepburn in 1970, since really big movie marquee names rarely go to Broadway), the closing notice promptly goes up.Jackman is reportedly committed to "Oz" for one year.

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<img src=http://i.timeinc.net/people/images/features/magstories/031103/hjackman.jpg' alt='Posted Image' class='bbc_img' /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p> HUGH DONE IT</p><p>people.com</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Hollywood hunk Hugh Jackman (aka Wolverine) revealed some nicely toned abs during his opening night Broadway performance of The Boy from Oz. <strong>Jackman downplayed the catcalls as he entered the show's afterparty at Copacabana, a spacious club on New York's West Side. "I presumed it was just my wife," he told us with a sheepish-looking grin</strong>. He may have been right. Jackman's spouse, actress Deborra-Lee Furness, looked coy when we asked how she enjoyed the show: "I thought the lead guy had the cutest butt I've ever seen onstage.

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Zap2It.com gossipDid you know...... that if Halle Berry were a man, she'd be Hugh Jackman? When asked who she would want to be if she could be a man for a day, she replied Jackman because "he's got a killer body and a heart of gold."

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<img src='http://i.timeinc.net/people/images/photo/celebsnaps/031208/pophjackman.jpg' alt='Posted Image' class='bbc_img' /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>HUGH DIPS REBECCA: Hugh Jackman, with Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, shows off the fancy footwork he's displaying on Broadway in The Boy from Oz, as Patrick Stewart and Famke Janssen look on, at the DVD release party for their movie X2: X-Men United in New York City.</p><p>(Erik C. Pendzich/Rex USA)

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Did anyone catch Hugh on PBS's Great Performances of Oklahoma on the Saturday before Thanksgiving?  It was a performance from London directed by Trevor Nunn. He was absolutely FABULOUS.  He has it all - looks, charisma, presence, acting ability and a great voice. 

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Cy, I saw him on Broadway about two weeks ago. He gave an unbelievable performance. I was truly stunned at his talent. &nbsp;I also had the pleasure of being there while they were raising money for AIDS. What this meant was that the cast remained onstage after curtain and auctioned off various items. Hugh's t-shirt (complete with sweaty DNA) went for $6,000. I think the towel went for $2k. Then, for $500, the first ten in line down front could get their picture taken with him AND an autograph. My son and I were almost trampled in a stampede as we headed for the exit.

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people.com EARNED: Despite terrible reviews for the show but great ones for its star, Hugh Jackman , the stage musical "The Boy From Oz" made a record $894,330 last week, despite Broadway being battered by snow, says the Hollywood Reporter. That allegedly beats the show's previous $888,023 record, set the previous week (Thanksgiving) and marks a house record for the venerable Imperial Theater, which has housed such Broadway blockbusters as "Les Miserables," "Dreamgirls" and the original "Fiddler on the Roof."

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<blockquote data-ipsQuote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="MMM1" data-cite="MMM1"><div><p>So the show is getting bad reviews?? MC was the show really that bad??</p></div></blockquote>No, it was great. The script probably wasn't the greatest - Peter Allen wrote wonderful songs, but I never really cared for his brand of showmanship. Also, aside from being discovered by Judy Garland and being married to Liza Minelli, his personal life was portrayed as ordinary. (IMO) However, Hugh Jackman rocked! I knew about the reviews before I went (basically they're saying that the script sucked but Jackman was worth the price of admission). Hugh mastered every nuance of Peter Allen's onstage persona. In fact, I'd venture to say that I <em>preferred</em> Jackman's version to the real deal.

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MC - glad you enjoyed it. I know someone who had flown into NY for the weekend and couldn't get tickets. Sounds like it's popular no matter what the critics say.

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Hugh's Show to Close During VacationsSTEPHEN M. SILVERMANpeople.com<strong>Proving the critics right -- that without its sexy star, Hugh Jackman, there's just nothing to the Broadway show "The Boy From Oz" -- producers of the musical will shut down the production while the "X-Men" star takes his winter and spring vacations.</strong>"Oz," a musical biography of the late Australian entertainer and songwriter Peter Allen, will be dark from Feb. 1-6 and again from March 28-April 2 while its hardworking star takes some time off, Joe Perrotta, a spokesman for the show, tells the Associated Press.Traditionally on Broadway, when a star is on vacation, an understudy quietly takes over, though there have been some long-ago special cases in which a guest star is brought in. During a late '70s revival of "The King and I," when Yul Brynner took time off, Angela Lansbury took over the female lead role to keep up the show's star power. Liza Minnelli also once famously took over for Gwen Verdon in the original production of "Chicago."Jackman, 35, who is literally the entire show, hasn't missed a single performance since "Oz" opened at the Imperial Theatre on Oct. 16 and quickly became a must-see tourist attraction, even among such celebrities as Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas, who went backstage after the performance to meet Jackman.So strong is the Jackman appeal that at a recent post-performance auction of the sweaty T-shirt he wears during the show, a woman in the audience bid $600 -- and off Jackman's chest it came. (The money went to Broadway Cares, which helps people in the theater living with AIDS.)Despite the initial reviews, which were brilliant for Jackson but brutal for the book, direction and sets (and, in many cases, even for the music and lyrics, all by Allen), "The Boy From Oz" has been doing strong business, setting a house record at the Imperial last week with a gross of $903,803.It was the third week in a row the musical has broken the house record.

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Ted C. of E!<strong>The real-estate dope I hear from Manhattan has Hugh Jackman moving in with Nicole Kidman at a very pricey hang in Greenwich Village. No, not together together (here we go again). I just mean in the same damn building</strong>, 'kay?This Boy from Oz now has his own chunk of a celeb-soaked Richard Meier pied-à-terre and will live ever so neighborly with fellow Aussie expat Ms. Nic, as well as designing mogul Calvin Klein. Perhaps H.J. will ask that a private entrance be constructed for him, too?(Like whom, I wonder?)

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Liz SmithNY PostIF YOU COULD SEE Hugh Jackman April 26 in a black and white suit designed by the great Tom Ford, performing three songs at the Costume Institute benefit dinner at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, wouldn't you just think that would be the nuts? Tom's design is inspired by the sleek style of the 1960s Sinatra Rat Pack. Hugh is also doing a number from his upcoming solo album.

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Believe it or not, an "X-Men" star started out as an ?X-rated? star! HUGH JACKMAN got his star in front of the camera by starring in porn films. Hugh says he did a couple of porn movies, but didn?t name them, so you?ll have to find them yourself.

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Jackman Wins Dance Award Hollywood star Hugh Jackman has scooped a prestigious award for his dancing skills in Broadway, New York show The Boy From Oz. The Australian Van Helsing hunk and Donna Murphy - star of rival show Wonderful Town - have won the 2004 TDF-Astaire Awards as the best male and female dancers in theatre. Kathleen Marshall, who directed and choreographed Wonderful Town, was named best choreographer. The prizes are given each year by the Theatre Development Fund and Robyn Smith Astaire, widow of the legendary dancer Fred Astaire. The awards will be presented at a New York ceremony later this month. http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/#1

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Zap2It.com gossipDID YOU KNOW THAT-- Hugh Jackman worked as a clown before he made it big? Hugh spent two years working as a clown for children's parties. His first gig was for a group of 6-year-olds when, five minutes in the birthday boy started screaming "He's not a clown. He's just a man!" Not knowing what else to do, "I resorted to smashing eggs on my head and letting 15 boys jump all over me," the actor tells the Globe. "It was the hardest $50 I ever earned."

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Jackman Recording Jazz Album

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Australian actor Hugh Jackman is planning to branch out into the music world by recording a jazz-based album. The X-Men hunk - who recently won a Tony Award for his performance as Peter Allen in acclaimed Broadway production The Boy From Oz - is currently working on the project with musician Richard Marx , but recording it has proved to be a tough task. Marx says, "I love working with him. The only problem is that between his Broadway show schedule and my schedule, we're just having a hard time finding time to get in the studio. We've been talking on the phone and emailing each other to slot some time over the next couple of months to try and get the record done so we can put it out in the spring. I need some time to really zero in on his vocals so that everyone can see just how good a singer he really is. We're doing tunes like the old Charlie Chaplin song 'Smile,' 'Ole Black Magic,' 'Beyond The Sea' and an updated arrangement of the Beatles' 'And I Love Her' that's really amazing."

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Off the Boardspeople.comSadly, Hugh Jackman is ending his Tony-winning run as Peter Allen in the Broadway show The Boy From Oz on Sunday. (Some tickets for his farewell performance, the show's finale, are up to $350.) After nearly a year of performing the show eight times per week, we wondered, would he consider another shot at the Great White Way? "(Hugh has) no plans for Broadway anytime soon," says his assistant, John Palermo. ("I am really, really tired," Jackman told the New York Times this week. "I don't think I've ever worked this hard, and probably never will again.") Instead, the X-Men star (who turns 36 Oct. 12) will go on safari in South Africa, then head home to Australia for a month. In November, he's back to work, filming the $40 million sci-fi flick The Fountain in Montreal.

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FAMILY ACTIVITY

Hugh Jackman enjoys a little hang time with son Oscar, 4, and wife Deborra-Lee Furness (not pictured) at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships in Flushing Meadows, N.Y., on Monday. It's a rare spare moment for Jackman, who's been performing eight shows a week on Broadway in The Boy from Oz. He'll get to rest after Sunday, when the show closes.

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