With the August 23rd performance, Jersey Boys, the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical became the 16th longest-running show in Broadway history surpassing Life with Father with 3,225 performances.
Jersey Boys opened on Broadway to critical acclaim on November 6, 2005 at the August Wilson Theatre. The show has been seen by over 18 million people worldwide and is currently playing in New York; Las Vegas; London; in cities across the U.S. on a National Tour.
Jersey Boys is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons-Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, and Nick Massi. Jersey Boys musical story is about a group of blue-collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks who became one of the biggest American pop music sensations of all time. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds, and sold 175 million records worldwide-all before they were 30. The musical features all their hits including “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Oh What A Night,” “Walk Like A Man,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” and “Working My Way Back To You.”