" Tony winner Hugh Jackman is coming back to Broadway in 2015! Although he recently dropped out of the new musical Houdini, he is now set to start in a play, Jez Butterworth's The River, according to The New York Post.
Butterworth’s follow-up to the Tony-nominated Jerusalem, The River had a critically acclaimed run back in 2012 at London’s Royal Court Theatre. Running at only 80 minutes long, The River is the story of a man and a woman in a remote cabin on the cliffs on a moonless night. The three-hander originally starred Dominic West, Miranda Raison and Laura Donnelly.
In addition to The Boy From Oz, Jackman has appeared on Broadway in A Steady Rain and a hit solo show, Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway. The star’s many film and TV credits include Australia, Swordfish, Kate & Leopold, Real Steel, The Prestige, Les Miserables and the X-Men series, including The Wolverine. The Oscar-nominated star is also planning to channel P.T. Barnum in a long-in-the-works movie musical The Greatest Showman on Earth, featuring a new screenplay by Oscar winner Bill Condon."
"The holidays are a time to return home and enjoy the company of family.
Hugh Jackman has been doing just that - back in his home town of Sydney, Australia, enjoying the outdoors alongside his 58-year-old wife Deborra-Lee Furness and their two adopted children - Ava, 8, and Oscar, 13.
The 45-year-old actor was seen at a pier alongside the coast outside of Melbourne on Thursday.
He was accompanied by Oscar and some friends as the group got in some fishing.
The Wolverine star appeared very casual and comfortable in a plain white T-shirt, khaki cargo shorts, and a pair of brown loafers.
He shielded his face from the bright sunshine with a cowboy hat and sunglasses - perhaps taking extra precautionary measures considering the skin cancer scare on his nose he experienced earlier this year.
The vacation is likely a welcome break, given that the Golden Globe Award winner has been busy - starring in Prisoners and The Wolverine, which debuted this year, and filming X-Men: Days of Future Past, which is due out in May."
"The hype for X-Men: Days of Future Past continually grows and expectations are very high, and deservedly so. But star Hugh Jackman, who plays Wolverine for the seventh time in the X-Men movie franchise, may have just raised the bar even higher.
In an interview with Empire Magazine (via ComicBookMovie.com), Jackman talked about again working with director Bryan Singer, who helmed the first two X-Men films. In his comments Jackman included some high expectations for the movie.
"Bryan has such an incredible brain. This is certainly the biggest movie Fox has made outside of Avatar, so there's pressure from all angles," the Australian actor said. "But he's buzzing, and he's confident. He's gone deeper emotionally, and it's a great ensemble piece."
Avatar is the highest-grossing movie of all-time, so that's certainly a high bar to set.
Jackman also revealed Wolverine's state in the new X-Men movie and the character's thoughts about travelling through time.
"He's a warrior and he can't hide from that anymore, even if the consequences are going to be messy and painful," he said. "If there's an era for Wolverine, its the 70s. The hair, the mutton chops, you can smoke cigars everywhere...everything about Wolverine seems more at home in the 70s."
The actor said that after the third movie, X-Men: The Last Stand in 2006, he assumed the franchise was finished.
"I thought that was it," Jackman said. "There was already talk about doing a younger version, and I was certainly talking about Wolverine and trying to drum up interest in that. I thought the idea of another X-Men movie was done, so this was a surprise. And a welcome one."
Finally, Singer reveals an exchange between Wolverine and Young Magneto, pllayed by Michael Fassbender:
"There's a line that Fassbender says that may make it. He says to Wolverine, 'You spend the next 50 years trying to bring me down?' Wolverine says, 'Pretty much.' Magneto says, 'How did that go for you?"
X-Men: Days of Future Past hits theaters on May 23."
"The film and theater actor Hugh Jackman, whose recent Broadway shows have been huge box office hits, has dropped out of “Houdini,” a new musical in development that had been aiming for Broadway as soon as the 2014-15 season.
Mr. Jackman, in a statement provided by his publicist on Monday, said the problem was scheduling. While Mr. Jackman wasn’t specific, most Broadway musicals can involve a year’s worth of rehearsals, workshops and performances from its stars.
“I have greatly enjoyed the collaborative process on ‘Houdini,’ ” said Mr. Jackman, who won a Tony Award for best actor in a musical in 2004 for “The Boy from Oz,” in which he performed for a year. “Ultimately, though, I wasn’t able to commit to the time this role will require.”
One of the producers developing the musical, Scott Sanders, said in a separate statement: “Hugh has been terrific to have on this part of our journey. We will continue to move forward with our remarkable creative team as they craft this ambitious new musical.”
Mr. Sanders did not return phone or email messages on Monday evening seeking further comment.
“Houdini,” which has been in the works for several years as a vehicle for Mr. Jackman, has had a troubled road. The musicians Danny Elfman and David Yazbek and the lyricist Glenn Slater were attached to the show at various times; the current composer is the Tony winner Stephen Schwartz (“Wicked,” “Pippin”). The journalist and novelist Kurt Andersen worked on the musical’s book, as did the Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin; the latest book writer is David Ives (“Venus in Fur”). The Tony winner Jack O’Brien is attached to direct.
Mr. Jackman had been set to participate in a closed-door reading of parts of “Houdini” this month. But Wayne Wolfe, a spokesman for the producers, said that reading did not take place.
Variety first reported the actor’s departure from the project."
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