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JERSEY BOYS broke the Broward Center for the Performing Arts' house record in Fort Lauderdale for the week ending May 3, grossing $1,568,290.00 and topping the previous record of $1,463,925.00.

The Chicago Company of JERSEY BOYS welcomes three new, talented performers to the cast - Michael Cunio as Tommy DeVito, Dominic Scaglione Jr. as Frankie Valli and Shonn Wiley as Bob Gaudio. Wiley and Scaglione Jr. have already been welcomed by Chicago audiences to their new roles. Cunio is set to make his JERSEY BOYS debut in Chicago on April 24, 2009.

Directed by two time Tony® Award winner Des McAnuff, Jersey Boys won both the 2006 Tony® Award for Best Musical and the 2006 Grammy Award® for Best Musical Recording, and continues to break box office records on Broadway and across North America. 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.

The Chicago Company of JERSEY BOYS welcomes three new, talented performers to the cast - Michael Cunio as Tommy DeVito, Dominic Scaglione Jr. as Frankie Valli and Shonn Wiley as Bob Gaudio. Wiley and Scaglione Jr. have already been welcomed by Chicago audiences to their new roles. Cunio is set to make his JERSEY BOYS debut in Chicago on April 24, 2009.

Beginning Tuesday, March 31st, the Broadway production of JERSEY BOYS, the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning hit musical, will launch a day-of performance mobile student lottery. JERSEY BOYS is the only currently running Broadway production to employ a mobile lottery at this time.

The Hartford engagement of JERSEY BOYS, which opened to rave reviews on Friday, February 6, broke the box office record - twice in a row - at the Bushnell Center, where it just completed its triumphant run on February 22, 2009. From there, the national tour will play Rochester, NY from February 25 through March 15, 2009. For the week ending February 15, JERSEY BOYS grossed $1,346,126, breaking the previous house record of $1,341,958 held by Wicked. For the week ending February 22, JERSEY BOYS grossed $1,429,211, breaking its own record from the week before.

The Chicago company of Jersey Boys will place a new block of tickets on-sale to the public Friday, January 23 at 10 a.m. for performances April 14 - July 12, 2009. Tickets are available at all Broadway In Chicago Box Offices (24 W. Randolph St., 151 W. Randolph St. and 18 W. Monroe St.); the Broadway In Chicago Ticket Line at (312) 902-1400; all Ticketmaster retail locations (including Hot Tix and select Carson Pirie Scott, Coconuts and fye stores); and online at www.BroadwayInChicago.com. Presented by Broadway In Chicago and TheatreDreams, the blockbuster hit Jersey Boys is celebrating its second smash year in Chicago. Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, premiered in Chicago on October 5, 2007 and became a resident production on February 27, 2008. The show is currently playing at the Bank of America Theatre (18 W. Monroe St.) in an open run. Jersey Boys tells 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. Directed by two-time Tony Award? - winner Des McAnuff, Jersey Boys won both the 2006 Tony Award? for Best Musical and the 2006 Grammy Award? for Best Musical Recording, and continues to break box office records on Broadway and in Chicago. 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.

Andrew Rannells will step into the role of Bob Gaudio in the Broadway cast of JERSEY BOYS, the Tony and Grammy Award-winning smash hit musical, on Tuesday, January 13. Sebastian Arcelus, who currently plays the role of Bob Gaudio, will play his final performances on Sunday, January 11, 2009.

Andrew Rannells will step into the role of Bob Gaudio in the Broadway cast of JERSEY BOYS, the Tony and Grammy Award-winning smash hit musical, on Tuesday, January 13. Sebastian Arcelus, who currently plays the role of Bob Gaudio, will play his final performances on Sunday, January 11, 2009.

The Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical JERSEY BOYS broke the box office record for a touring Broadway show at the Buell Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, for the week ending Sunday, December 21 with a gross of $1,924,310. The previous record was $1,659,826. The smash hit musical opened to rave reviews on Friday night, December 12, where it will play through January 3, 2009. JERSEY BOYS is part of the Denver Center Attractions subscription series at the Buell.

The Chicago company of JERSEY BOYS is thrilled to welcome Chicagoan Cory Grant to the role of Frankie Valli beginning Saturday, September 27, 2008.

The Chicago company of JERSEY BOYS is thrilled to welcome Chicagoan Cory Grant to the role of Frankie Valli beginning Saturday, September 27, 2008. A native of Winnetka, IL, and graduate of New Trier High School, Grant returns to his hometown after 10 months in the Broadway ensemble of JERSEY BOYS.

The Chicago company of JERSEY BOYS is thrilled to welcome Chicagoan Cory Grant to the role of Frankie Valli beginning Saturday, September 27, 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.

A new national tour of Annie will open at L.A.'s Pantages Theatre on October 4th and will run through October 16th