Jersey Boys, the 2006 Best Musical Tony® Award-winner about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, has set a new house record at the August Wilson Theatre for the 14th time, grossing $1,105,859.00 for the week ending August 21, 2006.Jersey Boys is the winner of the 2006 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.The musical is written by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, and directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Des McAnuff.Jersey Boys"is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli (John Lloyd Young), Bob Gaudio (Daniel Reichard), Tommy DeVito (Christian Hoff) and Nick Massi (J. Robert Spencer),
about a group of blue-collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks who
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," state press
notes.The musical opened to critical acclaim at the August Wilson Theatre on November 6, 2005. The national tour will begin this fall in San Francisco.
The cast recording available now on Rhino Records.Visit www.JerseyBoysBroadway.com for more information.