Global pop icon Sabrina Carpenter will take over Hugh Jackman’s spot at BST Hyde Park after selling out her first night.
The Please Please Please hitmaker already sold out her Saturday night show and is on track to do the same for the recently opened-up Sunday slot after the Wolverine star was forced to back out.
In a statement posted to BST’s social media pages at the time, he said: ‘Due to an unforeseen conflict in my schedule, I am deeply disappointed to announce I will be unable to perform in Hyde Park this July 6th.
‘This was a stage I truly was looking forward to being on. No less in a city that I love so much.
‘Thank you to all people who’ve purchased tickets. For ticket refunds, please go to the link in my bio for more information. London, I will see you soon!’
Now the 25-year-old Grammy winner has saved London-based summertime concert series with Claro and Olivia Dean joining her on stage.
Tickets for Sabrina’s second night (Sunday, July 6) will go on sale on February 24 at 10am so note it down in your diaries now.
For Hugh Jackman ticketholders, they’ve been told they will automatically be refunded in full for tickets purchased through official agents.
As soon as the cancellation was announced, some began speculating it may have been due to poor ticket sales.
Over the past few weeks, the event has repeatedly advertised tickets, a point raised online too.
‘I’m assuming the heavy advertising over the past week has nothing to do with this?’ Samuel commented on Instagram.
‘Clearly because there was very few tickets sold. Last week there was offered a payment plan, but this was all wrong from the beginning. Come up with a new big name,’ Jesper wrote.
‘I guess couldn’t sell enough tickets’ Liam added.
When Jackman’s show was announced, it was advertised the performance would mark his return to the stage for the first time in five years in the UK and would include a ‘medley of musical theatre classics, accompanied by a live orchestra’.
‘The show will feature him performing songs from musicals including The Boy From Oz, The Greatest Showman, Les Miserables, and The Music Man, plus some surprises for his fans,’ it added.
Jackman made his musical theatre debut in an Australian production of Beauty and the Beast in 1995, going on to appear in Oklahoma!, Carousel, The Boy from Oz and The Music Man.
He’s recently been performing the solo show Hugh Jackman Live: From New York With Love at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
Other performers for the upcoming series of BST Hyde Park concerts are Olivia Rodrigo, Zach Bryan, Noah Kahan, Sabrina Carpenter and Jeff Lynne’s Elo.
Several have already sold out, including one of Zach’s, Noah’s show and Jeff Lynne’s too.
It was while starring in The Music Man on Broadway in 2021 that Jackman met his now girlfriend – musical theatre star Sutton Foster, 49.
After months of speculation they were now in a relationship, which came after Jackman and his wife of 27 years Deborra-Lee Furness announced they’d split in September, last month he and Foster were snapped holding hands after a dinner date in Los Angeles.
This article was first published on February 3, 2025.
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