Broadway Boy From Oz Box Office Reaches $10 Million in Advance Sales
By Ernio Hernandez
October 6, 2003
Advance sales for the Broadway musical The Boy From Oz ?starring Hugh Jackman as Peter Allen ?have reached the $10 million mark.The new Broadway musical, capitalized at $9 million, took in $680,309 for the seven-performance week ending October 5. The Boy From Oz features the music of Allen with a book by Martin Sherman. The new musical began Sept. 16 at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway and opens Oct. 16.
Set in bars, nightclubs and concerts across the globe including Allen's homeland of Australia, The Boy from Oz is "a musical true story" of the late entertainer Peter Allen who was a protege of Judy Garland, and briefly married to her daughter Liza Minnelli. Allen died of complications from AIDS in 1992.
Joining Jackman (as Peter Allen) in The Boy From Oz are Stephanie Block (as Liza Minnelli), Beth Fowler (as mother Marion Woolnough), Isabel Keating (as Allen's mentor and mother-in-law, Judy Garland), Jarrod Emick (as Allen's companion, Greg Connell), Mitchel Federan (as the young Peter) and Michael Mulheren (as father, Dick Woolnough, and the manager-promoter Dee Anthony).
Philip Wm. McKinley directs the Broadway musical with choreography by Joey McKneely. Patrick Vaccariello serves as music director. Orchestrations are by Michael Gibson. Ben Gannon and Robert Fox produce. Nick Enright is credited with the original book.
The songlist includes "Overture," "All the Lives of Me," "When I Get My Name in Lights," "Love Crazy," "Waltzing Matilda," "All I Wanted Was the Dream," "Only an Older Woman," "Best That You Can Do," "Don急 Wish Too Hard," "Come Save Me," "She Loves to Hear the Music," "Quiet Please, There旧 a Lady On Stage," "I渇 Rather Leave While I観 in Love," "Continental American," "Not the Boy Next Door," "Bi-Coastal," "If You Were Wondering," "Sure Thing Baby," "Everything Old Is New Again," "Love Don急 Need a
Reason," "I Honestly Love You," "You and Me," "I Still Call Australia Home," "Don急 Cry Out Loud," "Tenterfield Saddler" and "I Go to Rio."
For tickets to The Boy From Oz at the Imperial, 249 West 45 Street, call (212) 239-6200 or click here. For more information, visit the show's website at www.theboyfromoz.com.
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