Because I follow you on Instagram,

and I'm seeing all the photos and videos

of you training. -Training.

-And you're full-on, like, training.

Like, "The Wolverine" was nothing

compared to what you're doing with this thing.

It's called "The Man. The Music. The Show."

-Yeah.

-Explain to me. What is all of this?

-"What the hell are you doing?" -Yeah.

-So, I'm going around the world,

and I'm going to be performing in arenas.

And I say this to convince myself

that this is really happening.

It's a shock to me, too.

And I'm going to be performing stuff

from "The Greatest Showman," "Les Misérables,"

"The Boy From Oz,"

from my first show that I ever did,

which was "Beauty and the Beast."

I played Gaston.

[ Cheers and applause ]

-Wow! -There you go.

None of you saw that. Anyway. It was in Melbourne.

But I'm going to tell stories,

I'm going to dance until my feet fall off.

And I'm just going to have the time of my life.

-I mean, isn't that amazing, though,

that you're able to do that?

I mean, these are giant arenas.

-Yeah. -I mean, giant. Massive things.

-When my agent said, "I think you can do it,"

I'm like, "Are you on drugs? Are you sure?"

-Yeah. -"Everything's okay?"

And then it just sort of all went off.

It surprises me --

Almost everything in the last 25 years

has surprised me, to be honest.

I'm like -- Yeah.

I mean, even the musical-theater thing.

Like, I came out of theater school.

There was a musical theater school where I studied.

I was not in that. I was in the theater school.

I had never sung before when I went for my first audition

for "Beauty and the Beast."

So from that moment on,

everything has been a bit of a surprise.

-I mean, so, if you go to HughJackmanTheShow.com,

you get -- when are you coming to the U.S.?

-So, I'll be here -- Yeah.

I'll be here in June -- Like June 15th.

Right through to July 20th. -Oh, I'm there.

Finishing in the Hollywood Bowl.

We're going to Madison Square Garden.

-I mean, come on! [ Cheers and applause ]

Who does this?! Who does this?!

-I'm doing three shows at Madison Square Garden.

I can't quite believe it. I'm going all around the country.

You name it, we're going. I'm going everywhere.

-Do you have a band or -- -I have an orchestra.

I have 10 singers and dancers. I have a choir.

There's 193 people involved in this one-man show,

just to be very clear.

-Are you going to be talking, as well?

-I'm going to tell stories. I'm going to tell --

Yeah, I'm going to tell stories that I've never told before.

-I'm excited about this, buddy.

-I've been doing work on this show probably for eight years.

But for the last two years, knowing I was going to do this,

I've been in training,

tap dancing, dancing, singing, doing the whole thing.

And I'm just going to lay it all out there,

and then I'm just going to drop the mic and retire.

So that's it. This is it. -No, no, no.

Do not do that. No.

How long have you been tapping? Since you were a kid or...?

-So, I started tapping -- My first tap-dancing lesson --

Actually, I --

You want to hear the story of my first tapping lesson?

-I'd love to hear it. [ Cheers and applause ]

-So, when I was 9 -- I was about 9,

and a teacher pulled me aside and said,

"You should go and get tap-dancing --

just dancing lessons."

So I went home and I said to my dad,

"Can I get dancing lessons?"

And he said, "Sure."

And then my brother who was 10, right, overheard me and goes,

"Oh, you sissy. You sissy." And I said --

And then he goes, "Well, all dancers are sissies, man."

He said, "If you get dancing lessons, you're a sissy."

And I'm 9, right? And I'm like, "I'm not a sissy."

So unlike Billy Elliot, I didn't get tap-dancing --

I didn't go for dancing lessons. I just forgot about it.

And I was 18, and I went to see "42nd Street."

My dad took me and my brother to see "42nd Street."

And at interval -- I'll never forget this --

that same brother who's now 19 came up to me and said,

"I said something really stupid to you years ago.

I think you belong up on that stage,

and I'm really, really sorry."

And so the next day, I took my first tap-dancing lesson.

-Is that right? -Yeah.

-See? Don't let anyone talk you out of doing it.

-Yeah, like, I wish I was more like Billy Elliot.

I wish I had all those years.

And it thrills me to no end that --

I think kids today don't have any of those hang-ups

that were around when I was young.

Like, I think of all those reality shows

around dance, around singing.

All that stuff has made it cool. Thank God.

-And it's helping. Yeah, absolutely.

I got to say, last time you were on our show,

we were talking about "Greatest Showman."

-Yeah.

-And man, oh, man. That exploded.

I mean -- Dude, you won a Grammy.

-Yeah. -You're a Grammy Award winner.

I mean, dude -- [ Cheers and applause ]

-I told you. Everything has been a surprise to me.

-I mean, you're getting really close to the EGOT.

I mean, you have the Emmy,

you have the Grammy, you have the Tony.

-Yeah, it's a little thing. It's an Oscar or something.

I've just got to win the Oscar. -Yeah, just gotta win the Oscar.

No big deal, yeah. -If I could just win that one.

-Can you -- Did you see this one coming?

-I had no idea. -Because we knew --

-It took us eight years to get the movie made.

Of course I always believed in it.

When the movie opened itself, I believe we were

the second-worst opening of any movie

in Hollywood history, wide opening.

So it was one of those things.

It was a sleeper hit.

People found it, and people loved the music.

And then it just kept building and building and building.

And I just -- I mean, it's been absolutely incredible to me.

I'm so grateful to the fans. It's the fans who picked it up.

[ Cheers and applause ]

-I mean, how does that -- -And I love them, man.

You know, it's -- -It's a great message.

-Everything about the show is great.

It's a whole new audience

who had, weirdly, never seen "Wolverine."

Like, there's some kids -- -Yeah.

Some 5-year-olds... -Right.

My nieces and nephews -- that's their favorite album.

That's all we listen to. -There's so many stories.

Like, Keala Settle, who played the bearded lady,

that was her first movie.

The director, Michael Gracey, his first move.

Justin and Benj, who were literally

straight out of college, who wrote all the music.

They did "Dear Evan Hansen," "La La Land."

[ Cheers and applause ] Like, it was their first movie.

There were so many people who started on this job.

And I kind of feel bad for them,

because it's all downhill from here.

To me, it's just -- It's a great sort of testament

to just belief, which all those people had.

And thank God to everyone at Fox who believed in it, as well.

-Congratulations again on that. I love that.