STAGE TUBE: JERSEY BOYS Melbourne Sing the Australian National Anthem

By: Sep. 28, 2009
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Bobby Fox, Scott Johnson, Glaston Toft and Stephen Mahy star in Jersey Boys - The story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, Broadway's multi-award winning musical which opened in Melbourne's Princess Theatre on July 4. Bobby Fox plays Frankie Valli, Scott Johnson is Tommy DeVito, Glaston Toft is Nick Massi and Stephen Mahy is Bob Gaudio - The Four Seasons. The actors sang the Australian National Anthem at the AFL Grand Final 2009.

Jersey Boys is the story of how four boys from the wrong side of the tracks became one of the biggest American pop music sensations of all time. Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi 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 is the winner of the 2006 Tony Award® for Best Musical. The Original Cast Recording of Jersey Boys won the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and in its award winning week topped the Billboard Album charts. Jersey Boys, Australian co-Producer Paul Dainty believes, will be the biggest pop hit in the theatre since Mamma Mia! Like Mamma Mia! Jersey Boys is a bursting with hits that have resonated with new generations of fans for four decades.

Jersey Boys - The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff and choreography by Sergio Trujillo, officially opened on Broadway to critical acclaim at the August Wilson Theater on November 6, 2005. Jersey Boys productions opened in San Francisco in December 2006, Chicago in October 2007, London's West End in March 2008, Las Vegas in April 2008, and Toronto in August 2008. There is also an ongoing North American National Tour. For more information, visit www.JerseyBoysInfo.com.



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