'Jersey Boys' Send-Off National Skating Champions Feb.16

Chicago's enthusiasm for the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys extends beyond the LaSalle Bank Theatre and into the community at large as 2007 Synchronized Skating Team National Champions, the Starlights, compete with routine set to Jersey Boys medley.   Members of the Jersey Boys cast will be in attendance on Saturday, February 16 at 9:45AM as the Starlights perform their synchronized skating program at Millennium Park's McCormick Tribune Ice Rink. 

The Starlights Novice team will compete in the World Synchronized Skating Championships in Sweden this March as one of three teams representing Team USA with the routine they will present to the public at Millennium Park on February 16.  The team of 16 skaters, all under the age of 15, finished 5th out of 20 teams at the World competition last year, and has once again received a bid to compete in 2008 with their current Jersey Boys routine.

Jersey Boys the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, is currently playing at Chicago's LaSalle Bank Theatre (18 W. Monroe) through July 13, 2008.

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," explain press notes

For more information on Jersey Boys, go to www.JerseyBoysChicago.com or wwww.BroadwayInChicago.com

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