Ken Page, Broadway star who voiced Oogie Boogie in ‘Nightmare Before Christmas,’ dies at 70

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Ken Page, the Broadway veteran who starred in 'The Wiz' and 'Cats' and who famously voiced Oogie Boogie in ‘Nightmare Before Christmas,’ died Monday. He was 70.

Ken Page, the beloved baritone who starred in Broadway's 'Cats' and 'The Wiz' and who voiced Oogie Boogie in the film 'The Nightmare Before Christmas,' died Monday. He was 70. Talent agent Todd M. Eskin and Page's close friend and producer Dorian Hannaway confirmed his death Tuesday to The Times. No details about the cause were immediately available.

20, 1954, Page launched his stage career in the chorus of the Muny, also known as the St. Louis Municipal Opera Theatre, before heading to New York. He made his Broadway debut as the Lion in the original production of 'The Wiz' in 1975. In 1976, he starred in the first Broadway revival of 'Guys and Dolls' with an all-Black cast, in which he played Nicely-Nicely.

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