November 11, 2010
Jersey Boys, the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, celebrates its 5th Anniversary on Broadway Saturday, November 6. To mark this milestone, Jersey Boys had a series of events around the anniversary weekend of Saturday, November 6 through Monday, November 8. Among the events was a celebration with fans ad Gallagher’s Steakhouse. BroadwayWorld brings you photo coverage below.
Jersey Boys will become the longest running show in the history of Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre, the theatre owned by Jujamcyn Theatres that opened over 85 years ago on April 13, 1925 as the Guild Theatre, on Wednesday, October 13 at 8:00 p.m. after 2037 performances.
Gallaghers
Gallaghers
Fans check in
Family is Everything
Family is Everything
Family is Everything
Memorabilia
Memorabilia
Memorabilia
Memorabilia
Memorabilia
Memorabilia
The Poem
Jersey Boys Fans
Russell Fischer & Taylor Sternberg
Russell Fischer & Taylor Sternberg
Ryan Jesse & fans
Jersey Boys Happy 5th Birthday from Rick Elice & the fans
Jersey Boys Broadway musical will be coming to the Ohio Theatre Columbus next summer for three weeks as a part of a national tour. But theater enthusiasts will have to wait nearly two seasons to see the play, which features 1960s rock ‘n’ roll group The Four Seasons. The Tony Award-winning musical will stop in Columbus OH Aug. 17 to Sept. 4 2011.
The musical has won four Tony Awards, was named the Best New Musical by London’s Laurence Olivier Awards and has won a Grammy Award for Best Show Album. It premiered on Broadway in 2005 and began its first national tour in 2006.
“The show I was in before this one was ‘Lion King,'” said John Gardiner, an actor who plays 15 roles in the play. “I remember being onstage for the opening of (the ‘Lion King’) and thinking, ‘Wow, nothing could match the electricity of that crowd.’ But then I got in ‘Jersey Boys.'”
Jersey Boys’ visit to Columbus will be the second Ohio trip the cast has made. Bwarie and Gardiner preformed in Cincinnati in 2008 – the loudest crowd they have experienced on the tour.
Bill Conner, president of the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts, said a total of 60,000 tickets will be released for “Jersey Boys'” three-week stay in Columbus, OH. The musical is now running in Forrest Theatre, Philadelphia PA.
November 4, 2010
Jersey Boys at the Forrest Theatre Just Too Good To be True
This jukebox musical has all the elements of tell a story, sing a song over and over. If you can endure the first 40 minutes of the boys finding the right song, the right name, the bail money then you will enjoy the great music they eventually offer. The supposed real life story while well told is more like flash speed episodes of Goodfellas or the Sopranos, excessive profanity included. The songs, while very impressive rarely apply to the scenes. If you’re okay with this you may see why so many people flock to this show; to hear them sing and sing they do! By far the best ingredient of Jersey Boys success is the music.
The Jersey Boys Philadelphia cast includes Matt Bailey (Tommy DeVito), Joseph Leo Bwarie (Frankie Valli), Steve Gouveia (Nick Massi) and Quinn VanAntwerp (Bob Gaudio). Bwarie’s voice and falsetto is a dead ringer for Valli as he ‘sings like an angel.’ Van Antwerp’s Bob Gaudio is vocally a plus to the quartet, however Gouveia’s Nick Massi’s leave a lot to be desired both vocally is a bit understated in his role. Matt Bailey plays a colorful and probably the most authentic “Italian” among the group. Together they wail out winners such as “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Walk Like A Man,” and “Working My Way Back to You.” Bwarie captures the crowd with “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.”
The sets are minimal, functional, industrial and dreary while pop art comic, campy images appear in a failed attempt to compliment the songs. The money scene is the staging when the band sings “Dawn” as the group turns their back and the audience is giving the band’s eye view; golden lights blasting, cameras flashing. This is what fame looks and feels like for four young hoods from Jersey.
Jersey Boys at the Forrest Theatre playing through December 12.
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