“You'd be hard-pressed to find a show as tacky and ineptly put together as "The Boy From Oz," although Frank Wildhorn's "Dracula" is a worthy successor… The audience, to be sure, was not diverse. Women, specifically middle-aged women from the suburbs, fell hard for Jackman. At times, the atmosphere in the Imperial Theatre resembled a bachelorette party for someone about to get married for the second time.”-The New York Post’s Michael Reidel, marking the closing of “The Boy From Oz.” I didn’t see the show (as I rarely see anything on Broadway), but I nevertheless find it remarkable that Hugh Jackman, a semi-major Hollywood action star, took more than a year off from movies to star in a Broadway musical in which he played a gay man who died of AIDS. Such a thing wouldn’t have been imaginable ten, or even five years ago. Posted by Stephen Silver at September 10, 2004 05:50 PM
observations on Hugh Jackman starring in a Broadway musical about a gay man with AIDS called "The Boy from Oz":
1. The jokes just write themselves, really.
2. Heh heh ... Hugh Jackman.
3. Oz could refer to Australia, HBO's notorious Super-max prison, or both.
4. Again, the jokes just write themselves.