'Boys' Shows Have Best Weeks Yet After Tony Wins

By: Jun. 19, 2006
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The History Boys, winner of the 2006 Tony Award for Best Play, and Jersey Boys, Tony Award-winner for Best Musical, had their best weeks yet at their respective theaters the week following the awards presentation.

The History Boys grossed $772,220 for the week of performances ending April 18 at the Broadhurst Theatre. Jersey Boys grossed $1,038,228 for the same week at the August Wilson Theatre (a new house record).

Alan Bennett's The History Boys stars Tony Award-winners Richard Griffiths and Frances de la Tour, among others. The show concerns "an unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results and a history teacher who thinks he's a fool." The play is directed by Tony Award-winner Nicholas Hytner.

Jersey Boys, starring Tony Award-winners John Lloyd Young and Christian Hoff, as well as Daniel Reichard and J. Robert Spencer, is written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe.  Jersey Boys "is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons...how a 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 sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide - all before they were thirty." Des McAnuff directs.

Tickets for both productions are available through Telecharge.com and by calling 212 239-6200.  Visit www.historyboysonbroadway.com or www.JerseyBoysBroadway.com for more information.

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