How did four blue-collar kids become one of the greatest successes in pop music history? Find out at Broadway’s runaway smash-hit, Jersey Boys. The Tony Award-winning Best Musical of the 2006 takes you up the charts, across the country and behind the music of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. As Clive Barnes in the New York Post says, "It’s just too good to be true." Discover the secret of a 40-year friendship: four blue-collar kids working their way from the streets of Newark to the heights of stardom. And experience electrifying performances of the golden greats that took these guys all the way to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: "Sherry," "Big Girls Don’t Cry," "Can’t Take My Eyes Off You," "Dawn," "My Eyes Adored You," and more. The New York Times says, "The crowd goes wild!"
The Chicago company of Jersey Boys stars Jarrod Spector as Frankie Vallie, Drew Gehling as Bob Gaudio, Michael Ingersoll as Nick Massi, and Bryan McElroy as Tommy DeVito, and is currently playing at the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago.
Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com, the leading source for exclusive theater information and live-events tickets nationwide, are proud to announce MR. GREEN'S OPUS: THE SONGS OF DAVID GREEN Monday, July 14, 2008 at 7:00p.m., as part of the long-running, Nightlife Award-winning concert series Broadway at Birdland.
Variety.com is reporting that actor Jeff Daniels and actress Rachel York will be starring in Tommy Tune's 'Turn of the Century' scheduled to run at the Goodman theater in Chicago this fall. The musical is being produced by the duo that brought Jersey Boys to the stage, Michael Brickman and Rick Elice.
The Broadway League has released end-of-season statistics for the 2007-2008 Broadway season, which began May 28, 2007 and ended May 25, 2008, showing a slight decline in both paid attendance and grosses.
On Thursday May 22, 2008 the 54th annual Broadway Softball league opened their season at the Heckscher Fields in Central Park.
'Jersey Boys' stars Sebastian Arcelus, J. Robert Spencer, and Michael Longoria will be featured on Sirius Satellite Radio's 'Broadway's Guest.'
Additional touring dates have been announced for the First National Tour of 'Jersey Boys.'
The Tony® and Grammy® Award-winning hit Broadway musical, JERSEY BOYS, is pleased to announce the launch of JERSEY BOYS Radio today, Monday, May 12.
With the opening last night of the Manhattan Theatre Club's Top Girls, the 2007- 2008 Broadway Season officially comes to an end.
As an additional effort to bring the arts into the community, Bank of America will be hosting a series of four Stage Side Chats with cast members from JERSEY BOYS.
Performers include Nellie McKay (The Threepenny Opera), Kerry Butler (Xanadu), John Lloyd Young (Jersey Boys), Sarah Steele (Speech & Debate), Susan Blackwell (Speech & Debate, [title of show]), Lauren Pritchard (Spring Awakening), Tony Yazbeck (Gypsy), Ben Walker (Les Liaisons Dangerouses), Jenny Powers (Grease), Jessica Grové (Sunday in the Park with George), Telly Leung (Rent), Skylar Astin (Spring Awakening), Matt Schreiber with 'Nicky' (Avenue Q), and Matt Doyle (Spring Awakening) with more to come!
All celebrity appearances are subject to change.
La Jolla Playhouse is proud to announce the launch of a new initiative, the Resident Theatre Program and welcome Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company as its very first Resident Theatre Company. The newly appointed company will be in residency at La Jolla Playhouse, located on the campus of UC San Diego, from August 18 through September 21, 2008 and May 12 through June 14, 2009.
Featured on the Grammy Award winning 'Jersey Boys' Cast Recording and Martin Scorsese's Acadamy Award winning film 'The Departed', guitarist Larry Saltzman joins Moonshine Martinis: A 60's and 70's Country Cabaret, featuring country music from the 60s and 70s.
Tony Award winner Christian Hoff, who currently stars in Broadway's 'Jersey Boys,' will perform at The Mann Foundation's Third Annual 'Mann of the Year Awards' to benefit The Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Jersey Boys is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons - Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi, and how this group of blue-collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks became one of the biggest American pop music sensations of all time. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sound and sold 175 million records worldwide - all before they were 30.
Arriving with a slew of Tony ® Awards, advance popularity and record setting box office numbers to match such earlier powerhouses as WICKED, The Lion King and THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, Tony ® Award winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys, is set to anchor the 2008-2009 Broadway Across America Fort Lauderdale theatrical season
Goodspeed Musicals, the only two time Tony Award winning theatre in the country, presents Happy Days: A New Musical. This tuneful musical comedy comes to the Goodspeed after a sold out run last summer at the Goodspeed's smaller musical performance space. The full scale musical celebration of 50's nostalgia begins April 11th and runs through June 29, 2008
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey begins its 2008 Season with one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies, The Comedy of Errors. The madcap hijinks begin on April 30 and continue through May 18. The Theatre also announced an addition to its early curtain performances.
Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced additional casting for the sixth and final production of its 2007/2008 Season, the World Premiere of the new musical SAVED.
Joseph John Productions presents 'GALA NIGHT', a celebration of the successful Cabaret Cares series, at the Laurie Beechman Theater @ The West Bank Café, 407 West 42nd Street (west of 9th Avenue) on Monday, April 7, 2008 at 6:30 p.m., beginning with a cocktail reception. Tickets are $100, which includes cocktail reception, dinner and performance. There will also be a silent and live auction. For reservations please call (718) 672-6714 or email jjmac249@aol.com. All proceeds will go to Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS and Help Is On The Way Today. The event is sponsored by Steel Gym.
Jersey Boys, the award-winning Broadway musical, will open in London's West End at the Prince Edward Theatre on Tuesday, March 18 2008, following previews from February 28.
The National tour of Jersey Boys, the Grammy® and Tony® Award winning Best Musical, plays its 500th performance this Friday, March 14. The tour is currently in its final week (through March 15) at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center's Morsani Hall, where it has been one of the most successful engagements in the theatre's history. The show set a new box office record for the week ending March 9, grossing $1,705,414, and it also set a new record for Carol Morsani Hall on Saturday night, March 8 opened to a sold-out house of 2,586 patrons.
Chicago's record-breaking 'Jersey Boys' places new block of tickets on-sale Friday, March 28th at 10AM.
La Jolla Playhouse is delighted to announce the final slot in the 2008/2009 subscription season has been filled with the new musical 'Memphis.' Written by Joe DiPietro, composed by David Bryan, 'Memphis' will open August 19 in the Mandell Weiss Theatre.
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