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Ken Page postures prior to joining “Male Call – Actors Read the Words of Great Women” at The Coast Playhouse on March 8, 2010 in Los Angeles. Amanda Edwards/ WireImage
Ken Page, the Broadway expert that supplied the voice of the repulsive bad guy Oogie Boogie in the Tim Burton- created The Nightmare Before Christmas, passed away Monday at his home inSt Louis, his representatives claimed. He was 70.
In his Broadway launching, Page actioned in as a substitute to play the Lion in the initial 1975-79 manufacturing of The Wiz
The baritone additionally came from the function of Old Deuteronomy in 1982 in the initial manufacturing of Cats; starred in the initial 1978-82 Broadway manufacturing of Fats Waller’s Ain’ t Misbehavin’; and played Nicely-Nicely Johnson in the 1976-77, all-Black resurgence of Guys and Dolls, a turn that gained him aTheatre World Award
Page was memorable as Oogie Boogie, the bug-filled Boogeyman, in The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1993 ), guided byHenry Selick
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In a 2022 interview, he claimed manufacturers were trying to find “someone who was Cab Calloway-esque, Fats Waller-esque.” He included that he saw the personality as “somewhere between the voice of the demon in The Exorcist and the cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz.”
He later on articulated Oogie Boogie in video clip games and at Disney theme-park destinations.
Kenneth Page was born uponJan 20, 1954, in inSt Louis, where he went to Bishop DuBourgHigh School He after that learnt cinema at Fontbonne College in Clayton, Missouri.
He played Joe “Cheesecake” Tyson on the 1987-88 ABC collection Sable
His résumé additionally consisted of the movies Torch Song Trilogy ( 1988 ), All Dogs Go to Heaven ( 1989)– as the voice of King Gator– I’ll Do Anything ( 1994) and Dreamgirls ( 2006) and visitor areas on such programs as Charmed and Touched by an Angel.
More just recently, Page created and starred in a cabaret program, Page byPage He frequently showed up in plays at The Muny, a historical exterior place inSt Louis.
This post was initially released byThe Hollywood Reporter.
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