Broadway Star Ken Page, Voice of Nightmare Before Christmas' Oogie Boogie, Dies at 70
Broadway Star Ken Page, Voice of Nightmare Before Christmas' Oogie Boogie, Dies at 70 https://t.co/52R3MoLWds
- People (@people) October 1, 2024
Ken Page, the Broadway actor and voice actor known for his roles in the musicals Cats and The Wiz, has died. He was 70.
"I’m still stunned by last night’s terrible news. Ken Page died suddenly," Danny Elfman, the musician and composer who performed with Page as the singing voice of Jack Skellington and composed The Nightmare Before Christmas' music, wrote on X on Tuesday morning.
"He was the one and only Oogie Boogie Man. He was simply one of the best, most generous souls I know," Elfman, 71, wrote. "Full of life and overflowing with joy. Talented and then some. Ken, my friend, you will be deeply missed."