He shared a silly video to his Instagram Story on Monday, telling fans, “It’s day 11 … I know.
The X-Men actor will portray Harold Hill, the traveling salesman who cons the people of a small Iowa town into buying instruments and uniforms for a band he has no intention to organize.
“The first musical I was ever part of was the phenomenal The Music Man,” Jackman said in a March 2019 statement.
“The idea of bringing The Music Man back to Broadway has been lurking in the back of my brain for a long time, maybe even for 35 years,” he continued.
The Music Man marks the first Broadway musical Jackman has led since his Tony-winning turn as Peter Allen in 2003’s The Boy From Oz.
He starred in Tom Hooper’s 2012 film adaptation of Les Misérables, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
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