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Tickets will go on sale Friday, April 17 at 10 a.m. for the North Carolina premiere engagement of Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, playing the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts June 24 - July 18.

JERSEY BOYS opened at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway to critical acclaim on November 6, 2005. The JERSEY BOYS National Tour opened to rave reviews in San Francisco on December 1, 2006, played a record breaking run in Los Angeles and is still breaking house records in cities across North America. There are six current productions of JERSEY BOYS: New York, London, Chicago, Las Vegas, Toronto, a US National tour, and a seventh production will open in Melbourne, Australia in July, 2009.

JERSEY BOYS opened at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway to critical acclaim on November 6, 2005. The JERSEY BOYS National Tour opened to rave reviews in San Francisco on December 1, 2006, played a record breaking run in Los Angeles and is still breaking house records in cities across North America. There are six current productions of JERSEY BOYS: New York, London, Chicago, Las Vegas, Toronto, a US National tour, and a seventh production will open in Melbourne, Australia in July, 2009.

JERSEY BOYS opened at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway to critical acclaim on November 6, 2005. The JERSEY BOYS National Tour opened to rave reviews in San Francisco on December 1, 2006, played a record breaking run in Los Angeles and is still breaking house records in cities across North America. There are six current productions of JERSEY BOYS: New York, London, Chicago, Las Vegas, Toronto, a US National tour, and a seventh production will open in Melbourne, Australia in July, 2009.

On Wednesday, April 1st, Lauren Graham, star of GUYS AND DOLLS on Broadway, will be featured on The View. Then, on Friday, April 3rd, Graham will be featured on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The View airs on ABC, channel 7 in the tri-state area and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon airs on NBC, channel 4 in the tri-state area.

Dates have been announced for the Washington, D.C., engagement of JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, playing the National Theatre. The musical will make its D.C. premiere on October 1, 2009, and play through December 12.

The London production of the Tony?, Grammy? and Olivier Award-winning musical, JERSEY BOYS, celebrates one year in the West End today. JERSEY BOYS opened to critical acclaim on March 18, 2008 at the Prince Edward Theatre in London. The West End production has won the Olivier Award, UK People's Choice Award, and the What's on Stage Award for Best New Musical.

'JERSEY BOYS', the award-winning Broadway musical which opened in London's West End at the Prince Edward Theatre on 18 March last year, has just triumphed at the Laurence Olivier Awards by winning the coveted ?Best New Musical' Award. This adds to the rich haul of over seventeen major international awards that 'JERSEY BOYS' has won since it first opened in 2006 on Broadway.

The winners are being announced as they happen for this year's Laurence Olivier Awards, London's equivalent of the Tonys. The awards, which were created in 1976 were given out on Sunday March 8, 2009 in a ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel.

Jennifer Cody was the Gypsy Robe recipient for Shrek, the Broadway dynamo passed the robe on to Guys and Dolls ensemble member Lorin Latarro in a fun and emotion filled ceremony. BroadwayWorld's camera shared in the excitement as the cast cheered her on!

The New York Times is revealing that while the current Broadway revival of 'Guys and Dolls' opened on Sunday night to widespread negative reviews, the producers held discussions today about the show's future and have decided to keep it running as they believe in the quality of the production. The first step post opening is to focus on advertising and marketing as the reviews give those department less than helpful quotes to nab for media attention.

Guys and Dolls stars Oliver Platt ('Nathan Detroit'), Lauren Graham ('Miss Adelaide'), Craig Bierko ('Sky Masterson') and Kate Jennings Grant ('Sarah Brown'). The first joint Broadway project by two-time Tony Award winning director Des McAnuff and choreographer Sergio Trujillo since their collaboration on the Tony Award winning musical Jersey Boys, Guys and Dolls began previews on February 5, 2009 at Broadway's newly refurbished Nederlander Theatre (208 West 41st Street). The cast celebrated Opening Night on March 1, 2009 and BroadwayWorld's cameras joined the 'dames and gents' as they partied after the show!

Guys and Dolls stars Oliver Platt ('Nathan Detroit'), Lauren Graham ('Miss Adelaide'), Craig Bierko ('Sky Masterson') and Kate Jennings Grant ('Sarah Brown'). The first joint Broadway project by two-time Tony Award winning director Des McAnuff and choreographer Sergio Trujillo since their collaboration on the Tony Award winning musical Jersey Boys, Guys and Dolls began previews on February 5, 2009 at Broadway's newly refurbished Nederlander Theatre (208 West 41st Street). The cast celebrated Opening Night on March 1, 2009 and BroadwayWorld's cameras greeted the starry arrivals.

Guys and Dolls stars Oliver Platt ('Nathan Detroit'), Lauren Graham ('Miss Adelaide'), Craig Bierko ('Sky Masterson') and Kate Jennings Grant ('Sarah Brown'). The first joint Broadway project by two-time Tony Award winning director Des McAnuff and choreographer Sergio Trujillo since their collaboration on the Tony Award winning musical Jersey Boys, Guys and Dolls began previews on February 5, 2009 at Broadway's newly refurbished Nederlander Theatre (208 West 41st Street). The cast celebrated Opening Night on March 1, 2009 and BroadwayWorld's camera's rolled the dice with the starry group as they took the first night bows!

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.

Tickets went on sale Friday, January 30 at 10:00 a.m. for the Orlando premiere engagement of JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, playing the Carr Performing Arts Centre May 6 - 24, 2009. Directed by two-time Tony ? Award-winner Des McAnuff, JERSEY BOYS won both the 2006 Tony ? Award for Best Musical and the 2006Grammy Award ? for Best Musical Recording, and continues to breakbox office records on Broadway and across North America. JERSEY BOYS is written by Academy Award ? -winner Marshall Brickmanand Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by BobCrewe and choreography by Sergio Trujillo.

This summer, Broadway?s hottest musical made Canadian premiere electrifying audiences at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, extending twice and garnering extraordinary critical acclaim. Today, Dancap Productions Inc. and Jersey Boys are pleased to announce that the show will remain in Toronto! 'After our first eight weeks of performances, it has become ever so clear that Jersey Boys and the great city of Toronto seem meant for each other,' says Michael David, Producer of Jersey Boys. 'We are most excited to join with Aubrey Dan and Dancap to perpetuate that relationship hopefully for a very long time to come.'

'Jersey Boys', the award-winning Broadway musical which opened in London's West End at the Prince Edward Theatre on 18 March last year, is on a roll when it comes to theatre award nominations in the UK, the Tony winning tuner has been nominated for four What's On Stage Awards and five Oliviers.

National tour of Tony Award-winning Broadway musical is an entertaining, if shallow, tribute to the enduring music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

This week, the cast of Jersey Boys Las Vegas welcomed Frankie Valli and Rick Elice, co-writer of Jersey Boys, as together they proudly introduced the cast of the upcoming Australian company in a private event at the Jersey Boys Theatre at the Palazzo Resort-Hotel-Casino. This was the first time Frankie Valli has been back to see the Las Vegas company since the grand opening performance on Frankie's birthday, May 3, 2008. After only nine months on The Strip, Jersey Boys has found a wonderful new home in Las Vegas and was even named ?Number One Show of 2008' by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.