“He was simply one of the best, most generous souls I know. Full of life and overflowing with joy. Talented and then some,” said ” Nightmare Before Christmas″ creator Tim Burton.
NEW YORK — Ken Page, a stage and screen actor who starred alongside Beyoncé in “Dreamgirls,” introduced Broadway audiences to Old Deuteronomy in “Cats” and scared generations of kids as the voice of Oogie Boogie, the villain of the 1993 animated holiday film ”The Nightmare Before Christmas,″ has died. He was 70.
“He was simply one of the best, most generous souls I know. Full of life and overflowing with joy. Talented and then some. Ken, my friend, you will be deeply missed,” writer-producer Tim Burton wrote on X.Page made his Broadway debut in “The Wiz,” playing the Cowardly Lion, and went on to portray Nicely-Nicely Johnson in “Guys and Dolls” with Robert Guillaume.
In 2010, Page revisited the Old Deuteronomy at the Muny — the Municipal Theatre Association of St. Louis — and the critic for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said: “Page, a looming gentle presence, fills the role of the feline spirit guide to the hilt,” adding, “Maybe nobody’s going to bow to a kitty while intoning ‘OH CAT,’ but Page can make you at least consider it.
He would go on to reprise the Oogie Boogie role, including in video games and at the movie’s 30th anniversary concert at the Hollywood Bowl in 2023. He also voiced King Gator in Disney’s 1989 animated film “All Dogs Go to Heaven.”
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