November 10, 2012
Jersey Boys musical nation tour will be stopping at Houston Texas in the month of March 2013. Jersey Boys Sarofim Hall – Hobby Center performances will start on March 19 and continue through March 31, 2013.
More than 70,000 theatergoers cheered when Jersey Boys made made its sell-out debut in Houston in January of 2008. Worldwide, more than 13 million people have seen Jersey Boys. Tickets to the award-winning musical will go on sale to the public Sunday, November 11.
Jersey Boys Sarofim Hall Hobby Center Performances Schedule:
Tuesdays – March 19 and 26 at 7:30 PM
Wednesdays – March 20 and 27 at 7:30 PM
Thursdays – March 21 and 28 at 7:30 PM
Fridays – March 22 and 29 at 8:00 PM
Saturdays – March 23 and 30 at 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Sundays – March 24 and 31 at 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM
Additional show on Thursday, March 28 at 2:00 PM
Jersey Boys, is the Tony®, Grammy® and Olivier Award winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. Jersey Boys tells the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide – all before they were 30. Jersey Boys features their hit songs “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Rag Doll,” “Oh What a Night” and “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.” “IT WILL RUN FOR CENTURIES!” proclaims Time Magazine.
Jersey Boys musical will be in Houston TX through March 31, 2013. Buy Jersey Boys Sarofim Hall – Hobby Center Tickets Online, Save $10 on orders of $350 or more – use code AFF$10.
Jersey Boys Broadway Musical grossed $651,908 and had an attendance rate of 85.3%, about 7.8% less than that of the previous week. The 28 shows on the boards grossed $13,578,727, dropping around 42.23% from the previous week’s totals.
Below are the Top 13 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending November 04, 2012.
1. The Book Of Mormon – (EUGENE O’NEILL) $1,332,221
2. Wicked – (GERSHWIN) $1,166,275
3. The Lion King – (MINSKOFF) $1,121,501
4. Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark – (FOXWOODS) $810,685
5. Once – (JACOBS) $783,614
6. Glengarry Glen Ross – (SCHOENFELD) $744,703
7. Jersey Boys – (AUGUST WILSON) $651,908
8. Evita – (MARQUIS) $642,500
9. Annie – (PALACE) $638,714
10. Mamma Mia! – (WINTER GARDEN) $541,421
11. Newsies – (NEDERLANDER) $539,986
12. The Phantom Of The Opera – (MAJESTIC) $505,593
13. Mary Poppins – (NEW AMSTERDAM) $465,738
{Via BroadwayWorld.com}
November 7, 2012
Jersey Boys, the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, celebrates its 7th Anniversary on Broadway today, Tuesday, November 6.
Jersey Boys opened on Broadway to critical acclaim on November 6, 2005 at the August Wilson Theatre where it has played over 2800 performances.
Congratulations & happy seventh anniversary to the JB current and former cast and crew members, the creative team, and Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons!
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Jersey Boys 1st National Tour currently stop at Madison WI. Overture Center’s Broadway at Overture Series presents Jersey Boys, playing tonight through to Sunday November 25, 2012.
Jersey Boys Overture Center for the Arts Schedule:
Wednesday Nov 07 – 7:30 PM
Thursday Nov 08 – 7:30 PM
Saturday Nov 10 – 2:00 PM
Sunday Nov 11 – 1:00 PM and 6:30 PM
Tuesday Nov 13 – 7:30 PM
Thursday Nov 15 – 7:30 PM
Friday Nov 16 – 8:00 PM
Saturday Nov 17 – 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Sunday Nov 18 – 1:00 PM and 6:30 PM
Tuesday Nov 20 – 7:30 PM
Wednesday Nov 21 – 7:30 PM
Friday Nov 23 – 8:00 PM
Saturday Nov 24 – 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Sunday Nov 25 – 1:00 PM and 6:30 PM
Jersey Boys tells the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide – all before they were 30.
Jersey Boys musical will be in Madison WI through November 25, 2012. Buy Jersey Boys Overture Center for the Arts Tickets Online, Save $10 on orders of $350 or more – use code AFF$10.
November 4, 2012
The Durham Performing Arts Center (123 Vivian St, Durham, North Carolina 27701) is currently presenting the Tony Award-winning Musical Jersey Boys through November 18, 2012. The play is one of the most successful of the “jukebox musicals” that focus on the works of specific artists or groups. It won four Tony Awards in 2006, including Best Musical.
Weinstock, a New Jersey native, has been with the show for about a year and a half. Before embarking on the current tour, he performed in a Las Vegas production of “Jersey Boys” in a different role.
Weinstock said he thinks the show has succeeded because, along with delivering the classic songs, it tells a compelling story and doesn’t try to sugarcoat the group’s history. Brad Weinstock, who plays the singer in a touring production of “Jersey Boys,” said it takes a lot of work to recreate Valli’s unearthly vocals.
“Jersey Boys” follows the rise to fame of the Four Seasons, a New Jersey-based group that scored with hits in the 1960s and ’70s, including “Walk Like a Man,” “Let’s Hang On!” and “December 1963 (Oh, What a Night).”
Weinstock said a highlight of the show comes in the second part of the first act, when three of the group’s biggest hits are performed back-to-back – “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry” and “Walk Like a Man.”
“We call those the ‘big three,’ ” Weinstock said. “It’s pretty crazy. It’s the closest a musical theater actor can get to being a rock star, being in this show.”
In another memorable scene, the group sings “Sherry” as the staging backdrop changes to illustrate the combo’s rise to stardom.
But Weinstock said his own favorite moment comes in the second act, when he takes the spotlight to sing one of Valli’s solo hits, “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You.”
“That was Frankie going off on his own. The Four Seasons had kind of collapsed at that point,” Weinstock said. “It’s a beautiful moment in the show when he gets to sing that song.”
Now age 78, the real Frankie Valli continues to perform and has an interest in the show, Weinstock said. He got to meet the singer recently.
“He came into our rehearsal, which was really exciting. We were in a room in New York City and we were singing ‘Dawn,’ ” Weinstock said. “I could see the whole cast turn around, there was kind of a nervous energy. I turned around and saw Frankie Valli and kind of broke out into hives.”
Jersey Boys musical will be at Durham NC through November 18, 2012. Buy Jersey Boys Durham Performing Arts Center Tickets Online, Save $10 on Ticket orders of $350 or more – use code AFF$10.
Jersey Boys Broadway Musical grossed $959,737 and had an attendance rate of 93.1%, about 5.5% less than that of the previous week. The 29 shows on the boards grossed $20,083,786, dropping around 8.39% from the previous week’s totals.
Below are the Top 16 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending October 28, 2012.
1. Wicked – (GERSHWIN) $1,657,271
2. The Lion King – (MINSKOFF) $1,431,056
3. The Book Of Mormon – (EUGENE O’NEILL) $1,423,087
4. Glengarry Glen Ross – (SCHOENFELD) $1,142,044
5. Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark – (FOXWOODS) $1,047,792
6. Evita – (MARQUIS) $1,040,801
7. Once – (JACOBS) $1,028,424
8. Nice Work If You Can Get It – (IMPERIAL) $984,485
9. Jersey Boys – (AUGUST WILSON) $959,737
10. Newsies – (NEDERLANDER) $845,173
11. The Phantom Of The Opera – (MAJESTIC) $833,059
12. Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons On Broadway – (BROADWAY) $770,182
13. Annie – (PALACE) $703,126
14. Mamma Mia! – (WINTER GARDEN) $667,027
15. Mary Poppins – (NEW AMSTERDAM) $581,807
16. War Horse – (VIVIAN BEAUMONT) $578,501
{Via BroadwayWorld.com}
November 2, 2012
Jersey Boys musical currently performing at Durham, NC from October 30 to November 18, 2012. One of the Jersey Boys musical main cast, Jason Kappus was interviewed by Dathan Kazsuk, Design Editor- Triangle Business Journal. Here is the interview below which revelas more about Kappus’ interests, future plans and so on.
Kappus, who’s admired the Jersey Boys since he first saw the show, is honored to be a part of this cast, which will be performing at the Durham Performing Arts Center from Oct. 30 – Nov. 18. Kappus has been in such successful Broadway performances as Legally Blonde, American Idiot, Hairspray and West Side Story.
Prior to a performance of Jersey Boys in Syracuse, N.Y., I was able to catch up with Kappus for a quick phone interview.
Question: A lot of people aren’t familiar with the story of The Jersey Boys. We all know the songs of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, but what about their history? Is this detailed in the performance?
Kappus: “Everybody knows this music to one degree or another. Even younger people come to the show and they’re like, ‘Oh, I didn’t know that was a Four Seasons’ song.’ Most people come for the music, and what they don’t realize is that the story is absolutely amazing.
“They weren’t some bubble-gum happy group. They had mob connections. Gambling debts. They were in and out of jail. These guys were really from the rough streets of New Jersey. Their rise to fame was really more of a rise and fall and rise and fall – it’s just an amazing story with what they went through. Even a lot of Four Seasons’ fans who grew up with the music didn’t know all the stuff they went through.”
Question: You play the role of legendary songwriter Bob Gaudio in The Jersey Boys. Gaudio wrote such Four Season classics as “Sherry,” “Walk Like a Man” and “Big Girls Don’t Cry.” Was it intimidating playing a role such as his?
Kappus: “It’s a little intimidating. Especially considering the fact that Bob was present at all my final callbacks, and in our tech rehearsals. It was strange being in a room watching me try to be him. What was nice is that they told me before my final audition that the person Bob cares about the least in the show is Bob … and that it’s his wife that you need to impress.”
Question: And impress he did, landing the role of singer/songwriter/keyboardist Bob Gaudio. The Jersey Boys features a whopping 33 songs during the performance, so Jason is bound to have a favorite song to perform live.
Kappus: “I love (the song) Beggin’. It’s actually not just one of my favorite songs in the show, it’s actually just one of my favorite songs. That one is just great. I also like the song Cry for Me, which is a lesser-known Four Seasons’ song. It’s the first time in the show that we all sing together, which is an exciting moment.”
Question: Being on the road for must have its ups and downs. What are some of the cons of being on the road?
Kappus: “Generally speaking, the hardest part about touring is being away from your loved ones and your family. Which for me, I circumvented that because I brought my wife and my dog with me. I have my family on the road, so that’s very nice. After that, I always say the worst part on the road is hotel Internet.”
Question: And the best part?
Kappus: “We get paid to tour the country. We get to go to all these great cities, most of which I have not been to before.”
Question: Is there a stop on the road that you really enjoy? Possibly stops in your hometown of Seattle?
Kappus: “Being from Seattle, it’s always my hope that we’ll be going through there – which I found out we will be. So that’s exciting for me. We had a great time in Dallas, Kansas City and Atlanta as well.”
Read the complete interview {Via Triangle Business Journal}
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