JERSEY BOYS Opens To Critical Acclaim In Melbourne

Jersey Boys, the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning international hit musical, opened ‘down under’ to critical acclaim at The Princess Theatre in Melbourne, Australia on Saturday, July 4th.

On the afternoon after the opening, Tom Cruise attended the matinee performance with wife Katie Holmes and daughter Suri. This is the actor’s second time seeing the show and he went backstage after to meet the Aussie cast. He previously saw a performance during the Thanksgiving holiday in New York City last year with David and Victoria Beckham. Click here to see coverage of Cruise’s visit toJersey Boys in Australia.

The Australian production ofJersey Boys stars Bobby Fox as Frankie Valli, Scott Johnson as Tommy DeVito, Glaston Toft as Nick Massi and Stephen Mahy as Bob Gaudio.

Jersey Boys is the winner of the 2006 Tony Award® for Best Musical. The Original Cast Recording ofJersey Boys won the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and in its award winning week topped the Billboard Album charts.

Jersey Boys is written by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, and is directed by two-time Tony® Award-winner Des McAnuff and choreographed by Sergio Trujillo.

Jersey Boys is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi, 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.Jersey Boys features their hit songs Sherry, Big Girls Don’t Cry, Rag Doll, Oh What a Night and Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, among many others.

Jersey Boys opened at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway to critical acclaim on November 6, 2005.  TheJersey Boys National Tour opened to rave reviews in San Francisco on December 1, 2006. In addition to Melbourne, the show can now be seen in New York, Chicago, Las Vegas, London, Toronto and in cities across the U.S. on a National Tour.

Jersey Boys is produced in Australia by Dodger Theatricals, Newtheatricals, Dainty Consolidated Entertainment and Joseph J. Grano, Tamara & Kevin Kinsella, The Pelican Group in association with Latitude Link, Rick Steiner and Michael Watt.

The Original Broadway Cast Recording ofJersey Boys, produced by Bob Gaudio, received the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and has been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons (Broadway Books) is the official handbook to the smash Broadway hit.

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