No Wolverine Sequel Yet? No Problem!

Well, you can't say that Hugh Jackman doesn't know how to keep busy.  With the fate of The Wolverine uncertain after last week's sudden departure of director Darren Aronofsky and the tragic events unfolding in Japan, everyone's favorite beserker-enraged mutant will be trading in his adamantium claws for his jazz hands.

The Wrap is reporting that Jackman will be performing in concert at The Curran Theater in San Francisco from May 3-15.  The two-week gig, entitled Hugh Jackman, in Performance, will be a mix of Broadway and Hollywood musical greatest hits, backed up by a 17-piece orchestra, according to the theater's website.

Jackman, of course, is a well-known song and dance guy when he's not playing Wolverine.  He won a 2004 Tony Award for his performance as Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz on Broadway, a role he later reprised for a stadium tour in his native Australia.  He's also hosted the Tony Awards three times (and won an Emmy for that), as well as the 2009 Oscars.  His stage credits prior to X-Men include Oklahoma!, Sunset Blvd and Beauty & the Beast.  And if that's not enough, he also performed the lead in a concert version of Carousel at NY's Carnegie Hall iin 2002.

So yeah, he's pretty good at this kind of thing.  No official word yet if there are plans to bring the show to any other venues once the San Francisco run is done, although it's safe to assume that whatever happens with The Wolverine will factor into whatever future plans they have for this show. 

As much as I'd like to see them move past this whole Aronofsky fiasco and get moving on The Wolverine, I have to admit that having seen Hugh Jackman on Broadway five times in The Boy From Oz, I'd pay to watch him sing the phone book, so I've got my fingers crossed that we get some NY area concerts before he gets out the claws again.  Since we've had no news on the fate of the movie, it seems like that is entirely possible.