After a productive and encouraging month of preview performances, JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, will celebrate its Opening Night on Saturday, May 3 at The Palazzo Las Vegas.
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Starting tomorrow, Wednesday, April 30 at 10AM, Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) will be accepting entries for its popular LIVEforFIVE online lottery for $5 tickets to its next production, the World Premiere of the new musical SAVED. A total of 50 tickets will be available via the online lottery.
Jersey Boys is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons - Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi, and how this 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 sound and sold 175 million records worldwide - all before they were 30.
The Broadway League announced the winners of the Touring Broadway Awards today at its annual Spring Road Conference. Wicked was recognized for the second year in a row as the 'Touring Broadway Audience Choice Award' and also took home prizes for 'Best Musical Score of a Touring Production' and 'Best Direction of a Touring Production.'
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 Broadway League announced the winners of the Touring Broadway Awards today at its annual Spring Road Conference. Wicked was recognized for the second year in a row as the 'Touring Broadway Audience Choice Award' and also took home prizes for 'Best Musical Score of a Touring Production' and 'Best Direction of a Touring Production.' The Lion King earned recognition for maintaining high quality over its long run and Twelve Angry Men was awarded 'Best Touring Play.'
The Touring Broadway Awards® presented by The Broadway League, established in 2000, are the first national awards to recognize Touring Broadway will hold their awards ceremony on Monday April 14th at 6PM at the Hilton on 53rd Street. League presenters representing over 240 markets act as a blue-ribbon panel to select award recipients from their Broadway Series
Oscar nominated Chazz Palminteri, writer and star of A BRONX TALE along with
Rondi Reed, Madeleine Martin, and Amy Morton, current stars of the Pulitzer Prize winning
drama AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY and JERSEY BOYS choreographer, Sergio Trujillo, will
present the awards
Rehearsals will begin on Tuesday, April 8 for the Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) World Premiere production of the new musical SAVED.
Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced additional casting for the sixth and final production of its 2007/2008 Season, the World Premiere of the new musical SAVED.
Jersey Boys, the award-winning Broadway musical, will open in London's West End at the Prince Edward Theatre on Tuesday, March 18 2008, following previews from February 28.
Rehearsals for the smash hit Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, start today and preview performances begin April 4 at The Palazzo Resort-Hotel-Casino.
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.
La Jolla Playhouse is delighted to announce the final slot in the 2008/2009 subscription season has been filled with the new musical 'Memphis.' Written by Joe DiPietro, composed by David Bryan, 'Memphis' will open August 19 in the Mandell Weiss Theatre.
Broadway In Chicago and the producers of Jersey Boys are thrilled to announce that in response to overwhelming demand and critical acclaim, the record-breaking Jersey Boys will be taking-up residence in the Downtown Theatre District for a sit-down company of Jersey Boys to continue performances for as long as the public demands at the LaSalle Bank Theatre (18 W. Monroe).
As the 21st Century chugs along toward completing its first decade, perhaps Broadway's new role in American theatre with emerge as the place where talented composers and lyricists with interesting projects will premiere their less-inspired shows while their exciting, adventurous and better-written work continues to hide in the under-publicized shadows of Off- and Off-Off Broadway, festivals and the occasional cabaret appearance. Just as Legally Blonde, the Broadway debut of composer/lyricists Lawrence O'Keefe (Bat Boy, Sarah, Plain and Tall) and Nell Benjamin (Pirates!, Sarah, Plain and Tall) doesn't match the quality of their Off-Broadway and regional work, last season composer Tom Kitt made his first main stem appearance with the catchy-tuned and enjoyable, but not especially notable, High Fidelity while musical theatre lovers in the know were anxiously awaiting a production of Feeling Electric, his substantially superior collaboration with bookwriter/lyricist Brian Yorkey, first seen at the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival.
The Grammy Award-winning Original Broadway Cast Recording of the Best Musical Tony Award-winning smash hit Jersey Boys has been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
