Ken Page, the Broadway actor whose extensive career included standout roles in “The Wiz” and “Cats,” but whose rich baritone voice reached a wider audience as Oogie Boogie in the perennial hit movie “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” died on Monday at his home in St. Louis. He was 70.

It has just been announced that Ken Page, best known as a Broadway legend, has passed at the age of 70. It has been revealed that the actor, who iconically voiced the character Oogie Boogie in The Nightmare Before Christmas, has ‘passed onto the next show’

Page was also known for playing Old Deuteronomy in the stage musical Cats. Ken Page, the actor best known for his stage work and for voicing the role of Oogie Boogie in The Nightmare Before Christmas, has died at the age of 70.

Ken Page, a stage and screen actor who starred alongside Beyoncé in “Dreamgirls,” introduced Broadway audiences to Old Deuteronomy in “Cats” and scared generations of kids as the voice of Oogie Boogie,

Ken Page, the beloved baritone who starred in Broadway's "Cats" and "The Wiz" and who voiced Oogie Boogie in the film "The Nightmare Before Christmas," died Monday. He was 70. Talent agent Todd M. Eskin and Page's close friend and producer Dorian Hannaway confirmed his death Tuesday to The Times.

Well-known Broadway actor Ken Page, who also voiced the Oogie Boogie character in “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” has died at the age of 70, according to multiple reports. News of Page’s death was reported on BroadwayWorld.

Ken Page, one of Broadway’s most familiar character actors who indelibly lent his voice to Tim Burton’s holiday film classic The Nightmare Before Christmas as the villainous Oogie Boogie, died Monday,