Erich Bergen to Star in CW's Joey Dakota

Former Jersey Boys star Erich Bergen will co-star with Amber Stevens, Craig Horner, Brooklyn Sudano, and Scott Wolf in the CW pilot Joey Dakota, about a documentarian who falls in love with a rock star. Bergen played Four Seasons member Bob Gaudio in the first national tour and Las Vegas companies of the Broadway smash Jersey Boys. In Los Angeles, he has appeared in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum for Reprise, Venice for Center Theatre Group, and A Snow White Christmas for Lythgoe Family Productions. Previous television credits include, Gossip Girl, Desperate Housewives, Person of Interest, and Franklin & Bash. Bergen's debut CD, The Las Vegas Sessions, was released in October, 2010.

Joey Dakota is about a documentary filmmaker named Maya (Stevens) who travels back in time to meet and fall in love with her documentary subject Joey Dakota (Horner), a rock star who died mysteriously in the '90's. When she is unexpectedly brought back to the present, she tries to find a way to get back to the past and prevent her love's death. The pilot is based on an Israeli series called Danny Hollywood, which produced 200 episodes.

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