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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, ...

A Broadway veteran, and the voice of one of the most beloved characters in animation history, has died. Ken Page was already a theater mainstay by 1993, when he voiced the character of Oogie Boogie in ...

God bless gibberish. Pop music often works best when it's most meaningless, when it reaches for a level of pure euphoric silliness. The word "boogie" isn't quite gibberish; it has a whole etymology.