Name: Hugh Jackman Is One Award Shy of an EGOT Thanks to The Greatest Showman
Uploaded: 2019-04-11T00:31:58.000Z
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compared to what you're doing with this thing.

It's called "The Man. The Music. The Show."

and I'm going to be performing in arenas.

from "The Greatest Showman," "Les Misérables,"

None of you saw that. Anyway. It was in Melbourne.

I'm going to dance until my feet fall off.

And I'm just going to have the time of my life.

-When my agent said, "I think you can do it,"

I'm like, "Are you on drugs? Are you sure?"

There was a musical theater school where I studied.

I was not in that. I was in the theater school.

I had never sung before when I went for my first audition

-I mean, so, if you go to HughJackmanTheShow.com,

you get -- when are you coming to the U.S.?

Right through to July 20th. -Oh, I'm there.

-I mean, come on! [ Cheers and applause ]

-I'm doing three shows at Madison Square Garden.

I can't quite believe it. I'm going all around the country.

You name it, we're going. I'm going everywhere.

-Do you have a band or -- -I have an orchestra.

I have 10 singers and dancers. I have a choir.

There's 193 people involved in this one-man show,

-I'm going to tell stories. I'm going to tell --

Yeah, I'm going to tell stories that I've never told before.

-I've been doing work on this show probably for eight years.

But for the last two years, knowing I was going to do this,

tap dancing, dancing, singing, doing the whole thing.

And I'm just going to lay it all out there,

and then I'm just going to drop the mic and retire.

How long have you been tapping? Since you were a kid or...?

-So, I started tapping -- My first tap-dancing lesson --

You want to hear the story of my first tapping lesson?

-I'd love to hear it. [ Cheers and applause ]

And then my brother who was 10, right, overheard me and goes,

"Oh, you sissy. You sissy." And I said --

And then he goes, "Well, all dancers are sissies, man."

He said, "If you get dancing lessons, you're a sissy."

And I'm 9, right? And I'm like, "I'm not a sissy."

So unlike Billy Elliot, I didn't get tap-dancing --

I didn't go for dancing lessons. I just forgot about it.

And I was 18, and I went to see "42nd Street."

My dad took me and my brother to see "42nd Street."

And at interval -- I'll never forget this --

that same brother who's now 19 came up to me and said,

"I said something really stupid to you years ago.

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