The A-list actor’s new “arena spectacular” Broadway to Oz will tour the nation in November and December.

He’s one of Australia’s most successful theatrical exports, known for his on-screen turns as comic book icon Wolverine in a seemingly endless string of movies in the X-Men franchise, as well as other hyper-machismo action movie roles. Yet there is a softer side to A-list muscle-bound superstar Hugh Jackman as a passionate and award-winning musical theatre performer. While Jackman’s substantial gifts were potently displayed on the big screen in the 2012 film adaptation of Les Misérables, starring in the role of Jean Valjean, he has been treading the boards in musicals since 1998, including three major productions of Peter Allen’s The Boy from Oz for which he won two Tony Awards. Now Jackman is preparing to bring his talent for musical theatre Down Under with the announcement yesterday of a new “arena spectacular,” Broadway to Oz.

The ambitious production is an expanded adaptation of Jackman’s hugely successful one-man show Back on Broadway, staged in New York’s hallowed theatre district in 2011. However, in addition to Jackman this Australian production will also feature over 150 singers, musicians and dancers,...