The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas star Ken Web page, who loved a glittering profession on Broadway, has died on the age of 70.
His buddy, tv producer Dorian Hannaway, introduced his passing on Monday however didn’t disclose the reason for dying.
‘Ken Web page has handed onto the following present. My coronary heart is damaged,’ she wrote on her Fb web page, prompting an outpouring of grief-stricken feedback.
Web page was a mainstay of the New York stage, taking part in main roles within the authentic Broadway casts of such hit musicals as Cats and The Wiz.
He received a brand new technology of followers within the Nineties because the voice of Oogie Boogie, the villain of Tim Burton’s animated basic The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas.
The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas star Ken Web page, who loved a glittering profession on Broadway, has died on the age of 70; pictured this April
Web page was born in 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri, the place he developed an curiosity within the arts as a baby, listening to Barbra Streisand and studying the novel To Sir, With Love.
He was all the time entranced by the theater, writing and directing musicals when he was in center faculty, in keeping with St. Louis journal.
After learning theater in school on a full scholarship, he struck out to New York Metropolis within the mid-Seventies to make his bones on the stage.
Simply two years after his arrival in New York, he made his Broadway debut within the 1976 revival of the beloved Nineteen Fifties musical Guys And Dolls.
Web page had a plum character half, taking part in a gambler who leads a prayer assembly with the barnstorming gospel quantity Sit Down, You are Rockin’ The Boat.
HIs flip in Guys And Dolls established him on Broadway and set him up for one of many largest roles of his profession – the Cowardly Lion in The Wiz.
Simply two years after his arrival in New York, he made his Broadway debut within the 1976 revival of Guys And Dolls; he’s pictured (proper) within the present with Christophe Pierre (left)
