Jersey Boys Win Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album

Jersey Boys (on Rhino records) was just announced as the winner of a 2007 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in Los Angeles. Nominated in the category of Best Musical Show Album were The Color Purple (on Angel Records), The Drowsy Chaperone (on Ghoslight), The Pajama Game (on Columbia) and Sweeney Todd (on Nonesuch).

Directed by two-time Tony award-winner Des McAnuff, Jersey Boys won four 2006 Tony Awards including Best Musical and continues to break box office records at the August Wilson Theatre since opening in November 2005. Jersey Boys is written by Academy Award-winner Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice , with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe and choreography by Sergio Trujillo. "Jersey Boys is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of 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," according to press notes. 

The show (and album) star Tony Award-winners John Lloyd Young and Christian Hoff, as well as Daniel Reichard and J. Robert Spencer.

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