Hugh Jackman nominated for a Tony Award for his critically-acclaimed lead role in the Broadway musical The Music Man
Billy Crystal has also been nominated in Hugh's category for his acclaimed role in Mr Saturday Night.
Other nominees competing in the category are Myles Frost, in MJ, Jaquel Spivey, in A Strange Loop and Rob McClure, in Mrs Doubtfire. In the famous toe-tapping musical, which was made into a film in 1962, Hugh plays a cheerful, but unscrupulous con man Harold Hill. Another gong? In 2004, Hugh, 53, took home the same award - Best Leading acting - for playing the role of Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz
Hill manages to persuade the little town of River City to buy musical instruments they do not know how to play. In return the charmer promises to keep River City free of 'sin'.Hugh said he first appeared in The Music Man in a high school production in 1983 while he was attending Knox Grammar in Sydney.Even though he was only a member of the chorus, Hugh was bit by the theatre bug.The Music Man and Hugh received raves when the curtain first went up back in February.
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