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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 6 december 2018

Hugh Jackman, the pop star, readies massive world tour

By MESFIN FEKADU said. "We worked eight
Associated Press years on it ... and I always
NEW YORK (AP) — Hugh want to remind people the
Jackman is set to launch studio took a big risk on it. It
a pop star-like tour next wasn't cheap."
year, but he's done his re- Jackman will kick off his
search: He's been to a Be- tour in Hamburg, Germany,
yonce concert. A Justin on May 13. He will play two
Timberlake concert. AND A shows at The O2 Arena in
MICHAEL JACKSON CON- London, where the album
CERT. has had even more suc-
"I've seen some of the cess than America: The
greats," Jackman said in album has spent 48 of 49
an interview with The As- weeks in the Top 10 on the
sociated Press on Tuesday. U.K. charts, including 21
"And the great performers weeks at No. 1. And it's cur-
for me are the ones who rently No. 4 on the charts, a
can connect with the per- year after its release.
son in the back and in the The North American leg
front. And I'll sometimes sit begins June 18 in Houston.
in the back 'cause I wanna Most tickets go on sale Fri-
know am I feeling it back day; tickets for the MSG
here? 'Cause I'm from the Actor and singer Hugh Jackman performs on NBC's "Today" show at Rockefeller Plaza on shows go on sale Dec. 10.
theater, (so) for me every- Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018, in New York. Jackman hopes to also per-
thing I do has to connect to Associated Press form original music on the
every single person." tour, and he recalls working
The regular concert attend- ine. "Never in my wildest 'I'd leave it in Australia, around the world ... I prob- on an album when he was
ee is hoping to make some dreams did I think when I dude.'" ably wouldn't have had it signed to a record label
strong connections with turned 50 I would be play- But then came "The Great- if it wasn't for 'The Greatest over a decade ago when
fans when he launches his ing Madison Square Gar- est Showman" — a game Showman.' That tipped me he starred in Broadway's
first world tour — dubbed den or the Hollywood Bowl." changer for Jackman's over," Jackman said. "The Boy from Oz," for which
"The Man. The Music. The Jackman, who was born music career. The 2017 film "The Greatest Showman" he won a Tony in 2004.
Show."— next year. Accom- in Australia, did an arena was a box-office power- has come a long way: Jack- "I had a deal at the time
panied by a live orchestra, tour there three years ago, house, but so was — and man remembers how the and I hated what I did. It
he will perform songs from but he didn't think he could still is — its soundtrack: The movie only earned $8.6 mil- had nothing to do with any-
"The Greatest Showman," replicate the success out- album has reached multi- lion in its first week around one involved, I had amaz-
''Les Miserables" and Broad- side his native home. platinum status and is one the time the soundtrack ing people involved, but
way musicals, among other "I had no idea really what of the year's top albums, debuted at No. 71 on the at that point I didn't know
selections. the demand is for me. It's matching the success of Billboard charts. what I wanted to say," he
"I've always felt strangely not like I measure it or I any major rap, pop or rock "When we opened, when said. "Whether you're a re-
at home on a stage, no ask. I always underplay it," album. It came in fourth on I saw I didn't get an email, cording artist or a writer or
matter how big the stage he said. "At that time three Billboard's list of top albums normally you'll get a con- actor, you've got to feel
is — sometimes even more years ago I remember for the year and also made solation email from your like you have something to
than in life," said the actor, thinking, 'I'd really love to Apple Music's year-end Top friends, the studios; it was say."q
known for roles like Wolver- do this around the world.' 10 list. like crickets, like nothing.
And my agent in L.A. goes, "The opportunity to go That's how bad it was," he
'Hearts of the Missing' is a baffling mystery

By BRUCE DESILVA an's place doesn't include volves so many characters Potenza does a decent job
Associated Press police work, undermines and such a plethora of of evoking the reservation's
"Hearts of the Missing" (Mi- her at every turn. And her twists and turns that read- stark natural landscape,
notaur), by Carol Potenza long-ago affair with an in- ers may find it difficult to but she peppers her nar-
Nicky Matthews, a Pueblo, fluential married man, is a keep track unless they rative with granular, often
New Mexico, police ser- constant source of trouble. pay close attention — and irrelevant, physical descrip-
geant assigned as liaison to When Nicky suspects that maybe even take notes tions of her characters, in-
the Tsiba'ashi D'yini reserva- an apparent suicide could along the way. cluding many minor ones.
tion's police department, be murder — and might be The author, a biochemistry And when they speak,
has a few things going for linked to a series of violent professor at New Mexico nearly all of her characters
her. She's smart and tena- deaths and missing persons State University, is the pre- sound alike regardless of
cious. She respects, and — her investigation is ob- publication winner of the age, gender and ethnicity.
has gained the respect structed by her bosses and annual Hillerman Prize for Still, the baffling mystery
of, the native people. And the elders who run the res- the best novel set in the and the frequent surprises
she has so internalized their ervation. Southwest. However, her along the way will reward
culture that she's visited by "Hearts of the Missing," Car- prose, while better than readers who stick with this This cover image released
ghosts who provide warn- ol Potenza's debut novel, is workmanlike, falls short of story to the end. All in all, by Minotaur shows "Hearts
ings and premonitions. a yarn wrapped in Pueblo the simple elegance of "Hearts of the Missing" dem- of the Missing," a mystery by
But she also has some Indian mythology, forensic the late Tony Hillerman's 18 onstrates enough promise Carol Potenza.
things going against her. evidence, ancient rituals, novels about the exploits of to justify Potenza's plan for Associated Press
The reservation's police DNA tests, evil spirits, greed a pair of Navajo police of- a series of Nicky Matthews
chief, who thinks a wom- and violence. The story in- ficers. novels.q