Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons Come To The Fox Theatre 2/27

KETC Channel presents American rock-and-roll heroes Frankie ValliAND THE FOUR SEASONS at the Fabulous Fox Theatre Saturday, February 27 at 8 p.m.

Tickets are on salenow and prices are $59.50, $54.50, $49.50 and $44.50. All prices are subject to change.

The extraordinary and unprecedented ongoing chapters of a five-decade career illustrate the unending public demand for the music of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. The beloved American band's singular body of work has been driving ticket sales the world over both for multiple productions of Jersey Boys, as well as fortour dates. The New York Times referred to the superstar as "....A force of nature that defied genre and gavethe foursome an immediately identifiable sound..." And The Washington Post recently declared, "(Valli's) soaring range and gutsy delivery helped define The Four Seasons' radio ready sound." Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, has claimed a triple crown of awards, including most recently the Olivier Award as BEST NEW MUSICAL of the year.

The Tony Award and Grammy Award winning Broadway production is now in its fourth year of sell-out shows; productions are currently running inChicago, Las Vegas, Toronto and Melbourne, with a touring company playing nationally. The musical recapsthe compelling power of their life stories and the timeless cultural presence of Frankie Valli's incomparablevoice are all continuing to drive ticket sales the world over, despite the economic recession. Responding to this popular demand, Valli and The Four Seasons have extended their national solo tour schedule well into 2010. Transcending early childhood poverty in the tough streets of Newark, New Jersey to achieve global success as recording artists, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons have charted internationally in five consecutive decades.

Like a very few visionary others of that era (Sam Cooke and Curtis Mayfield among them) Frankie Valli, alongwith his group mate and lifelong partner, the platinum songwriter and producer Bob Gaudio, astutely re-investedtheir earnings back into the group, purchasing and retaining ownership of their work at every opportunity - most famously, using $4000 to buy back from Motown Records the master tape of the 1975 No.1 Valli solo smash,"My Eyes Adored You." The Four Seasons staged one chart revival after another, decade after decade, until the smash musical Jersey Boys put the entire story onstage in rousing, foot-stomping, standing-ovation style.

In what would be the twilight of most careers, the opening of Jersey Boys on Broadway and a much-praised recurring role by Frankie Valli highlighting the later seasons of the long-running HBO drama The Sopranos launched a new career cycle for the group. The London success of Jersey Boys was foretold in part by the 2007 U.K. Top 40 re-charting of the 40-year-old original Four Seasons song "Beggin'" after months of heavy club play. A faithful rap cover of the song by Norwegian hip-hop act Madcon hit No. 1 in several European territories in 2008, and the same version re-entered the U.K. charts recently.This Jersey Boy shows no signs of slowing down as he continues to excite sell-out crowds across the country. His current Universal Motown CD, Romancing the 60's, entered the Billboard Top 200 chart of national best-sellers, 45 years to the week of The Four Seasons' first charting in 1962.

Tickets for Frankie Valli AND THE FOUR SEASONS are on sale now at the Fox Theatre box office and all MetroTix locations. To charge by phone call MetroTix at 314/534-1111 or online at www.metrotix.com

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