Ken Web page, the achieved Broadway actor and voice of Oogie Boogie in Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas, has died on the age of 70.
Information of Web page’s passing was first reported by a number of of his shut pals, together with former Late Present director Dorian Hannaway and actress Shari Belafonte, and was subsequently confirmed by BroadwayWorld. In keeping with Hannaway, Web page “handed quietly and peacefully at his house.”
In Burton’s basic The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas, Web page voiced The Oogie Boogie Man, the movie’s foremost antagonist. Web page later reprised the character in a number of live-to-film performances of the film staged by composer Danny Elfman.
On Broadway, Web page notably portrayed Previous Deuteronomy within the unique manufacturing of Cats, and The Lion within the unique manufacturing of The Wiz. He additionally starred as Properly-Properly Johnson within the Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls.
A local of St. Louis, Web page spent the later a part of his profession taking over roles on the St. Louis Municipal Opera Theatre, together with in productions of West Facet Story, Les Misérables, and Waitress.
