Hugh Jackman Takes a Spin on Carousel

Wolverine may be one of the hottest characters in movies today, but Hugh Jackman, the actor who plays him, just can't keep away from those show tunes.

Having won a Tony for portraying flamboyantly gay singer-songwriter Peter Allen in Broadway's The Boy from Oz, Jackman will bring his song-and-dance stylings to a new big-screen revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel.

The remake of the 1956 movie will feature Jackman as Billy Bigelow, a hot-headed carnival barker who dies, then gets to leave Purgatory for one day and return to Earth to clean up the mess he left behind - most notably, his troubled teenage child.

And if that's not enough singing Jackman for you, there's also talk of him joining the Moulin Rouge team of Nicole Kidman and queer-adjacent writer-director Baz Luhrmann for an as-yet-untitled movie musical.