Jonathan Hadley News

JERSEY BOYS, the Tony Award® winning Best Musical that tells the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, opens tonight, Friday, June 20, in Cleveland's Playhouse Square for a five week engagement through July 20, 2008.

Jersey Boys set a new box office record in Minneapolis last week. The Tony® and Grammy® award winning Best Musical that tells the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, grossed $1,373,196 for the week ending April 13, 2008, shattering the previous record of $1,371,894 held by The Lion King. Jersey Boys opened to critical acclaim on March 20 in Minneapolis at the Orpheum Theatre, where it will play through April 20, 2008.

The National tour of Jersey Boys, the Grammy® and Tony® Award winning Best Musical, plays its 500th performance this Friday, March 14. The tour is currently in its final week (through March 15) at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center's Morsani Hall, where it has been one of the most successful engagements in the theatre's history. The show set a new box office record for the week ending March 9, grossing $1,705,414, and it also set a new record for Carol Morsani Hall on Saturday night, March 8 opened to a sold-out house of 2,586 patrons.

Casting has been announced for the special holiday encore engagement of Jersey Boys, set to play San Francisco's Curran Theatre from November 20-December 30, 2007. The cast of Jersey Boys will be lead by Rick Faugno (Frankie Valli), San Franciscan Jeff Leibow (Nick Massi), Bryan McElroy (Tommy DeVito) and Andrew Rannells (Bob Gaudio) as The Four Seasons with Jonathan Hadley and Ken Krugman.

The Broadway smash hit Jersey Boys, winner of four 2006 Tony Awards including Best Musical, celebrated its 1-millionth customer on Tuesday, October 2. The lucky audience member, Robin Becker from New Jersey, was brought on-stage after curtain call and presented with a Jersey Boys poster, tote-bag and applauded by the entire company.

On June 12th, The York Theatre Company presented some of Broadway's brightest stars singing the songs of emerging composers and lyricists in 'NEO2,' and BroadwayWorld was there for the event!

Tonight at York Theatre Company, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty will host two sold-out performances of 'NEO2' at 6:00pm and 9:00pm; the evening will feature some of Broadway's brightest stars

Nancy Anderson, Jill Paice and Douglas Sills--times eight--will headline the Huntington Theatre's staged reading of Steven Lutvak and Robert Freedman's new musical Kind Hearts and Coronets, which will be presented at the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion in Boston on April 6th

Melissa Errico and Malcolm Gets will once again star in Finian's Rainbow at the Westport County Playhouse for a run that begins on June 16th

The Irish Repertory Theatre presents a concert adaptation of the romantic musical satire, Finian's Rainbow. BroadwayWorld was there to capture the stars of the show at the opening night party which took place at Porters in Chelsea.