Van Hel-Singing!

Jackman takes Broadway Oscar


by Willow Green |
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He may still be best known as an adamantium-boned mutant with excess facial hair, but there's more to Hugh Jackman than perfect features, a form-fitting black leather uniform and a penchant for cigar-chewing. At a ceremony that he also presented on Saturday night, the Van Helsing star picked up a Tony award for his performance in "The Boy From Oz". The play is a musical based on the life of Peter Allen, from his humble beginnings in the Australian outback to his success as an Oscar-winning songwriter and marriage to Liza Minelli. Jackman's lead performance was widely acclaimed, and there was no great surprise when he walked off with the Tony for "Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical"

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