This show was one of our selections as a highlight for Broadway/Pop Music at the Hollywood Bowl. After all, Hugh Jackman has starred on Broadway in multiple shows (including his Tony Award-winning performance as Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz.) He also starred as Jean Valjean in the film adaptation of the musical Les Misérables. Those credits alone give you a good idea of what to expect when Hugh Jackman: The Man, The Music, The Show plays the Hollywood Bowl on Friday and Saturday night.
Joining Jackman for these two performances, as she has at select other stops on the tour, is his co-star from The Greatest Showman, Keala Settle.
Which gives Jackman another source for material to pull from for this show. A look at the setlist from the opening night of his show in Glasgow shows the he performed a song by Queen, a song from the musical Carousel, music by Kurt Weill, one of the most beloved film songs of all time (from a certain 1939 movie), songs made famous by Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and others – all in addition to the material listed above.
That setlist did not include any songs from The Music Man which will be the musical that finds Jackman returning to Broadway next fall with Sutton Foster.
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