Ooh-Hoo: Jackman Returning To Broadway
Hugh Jackman may have vanished from “Houdini,†but he’ll be materializing on Broadway early next year in “The River,†a play from London by Jez Butterworth. Jackman, Broadway’s No. 1 box office draw, withdrew from the “Houdini†musical a couple of weeks ago due to “scheduling issues.” But he doesn’t like to be away from the theater for long and quickly set about looking for a show. In the Butterworth, which Michael Riedel says has echoes of Pinter’s “Old Times,” Jackman will ‘be playing a reclusive man with a passion for trout fishing and, perhaps, other, more disturbing hobbies.’ Sounds deadly dull to me but there are two reasons why it will sell out: 1) Jackman; 2) an 80-minute running time.
