The run closed September 12, 2004
- Opened
- 2003
- Closed
- September 12, 2004
- Performances
- 364
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- —
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 59th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
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
Heather Laws
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
8 of these 34 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 26 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Philip William McKinley
- Choreographer
- Joey McKneely
- Orchestrations
- Michael Gibson
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
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.)
Speaker not recorded. 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.”
Speaker not recorded. 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.”
Speaker not recorded. B007l4owcu Ebok Peter Filichia, p. 293- Hugh Jackman in The Boy from Oz, are good examples. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 288
- The Boy from Oz (2003), Peter Allen; Jersey Boys (2005), Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 679
- Mitchel David Federan (The Boy From Oz), Alexander Gemignani (Assassins), Hugh Jackman (The Boy From 02), |sabel Keating (The Boy From 02) Theatre World 2011 12 Season V 68 Willis, p. 424
- performed by the star of The Boy From Oz, A Steady Rain and filmdom's The X-Men series. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2011 To May 2012 Viagas Robert 8th Annual Ed, p. 176
- Roughly twenty-seven musicals between 2001 and 2013 were produced using previously existing songs. Some have written a story around an existing catalog of songs, like Jersey Boys or The Boy From Oz, and others have transferred a movie musical to the stage with its original score relatively intact like Chitty Chitty Ban… A History of the American Musical Theatre No Business Like Nathaniel Hurwitz Tay, p. 286
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for The Boy from Oz at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.