Jersey Boys PPAC Cast Update: Brad Weinstock, a Jersey-born actor who comes directly from the Las Vegas production of “Jersey Boys,” will play Frankie Valii. Brandon Andrus – who played Curly in the national tour of “Oklahoma!” — as Nick Massi; Colby Foytik, launching his second national tour of “Jersey Boys” as Tommy DeVito; and Jason Kappus as Bob Gaudio who was in the Broadway production of “American Idiot.”
Jersey Boys Second National Tour Cast Rehearsal
Jersey Boys Cast Starring at PPAC
Jersey Boys, the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, opened on Broadway on November 6, 2005 at the August Wilson Theatre. Jersey Boys is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, 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. “Jersey Boys,” which provides the back story of the 1970s rock group The Four Seasons, won four Tonys, including “Best Musical,” and a Grammy in 2006.
Addition Matinee on Thursday, Aug 16 – 1:00 PM
There is no 2:00 PM show on Friday, Aug 17
Jersey Boys a month-long run at Providence Performing Arts Center ends on September 02, 2012. Its first engagement at PPAC two seasons ago attracted 80,000 theatergoers. Buy Jersey Boys Providence RI Tickets Online, Use Code SUMMERFUNTN to Save $10 on Orders of $250 or more!
Jersey Boys is currently playing on first national tour in Tulsa, OK for a three-week run through June 24, 2012.
Here is the glimpse of the Musical review by James D. Watts Jr at tulsaworld.com
There is a lot more reason why “Jersey Boys,” which opened a three-week run Wednesday at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, has become such a phenomenon.
That last course is the one Tommy’s been pursuing without too much success, until he finds a kid who “sings like an angel” named Francis Castelluccio — who soon changes his name to Frankie Valli (Joseph Leo Bwarie). Once Nick Massi (Michael Lomenda), a bass guitar-playing man of few words, gets out of prison, he joins DeVito and Valli in the group. But it isn’t until the trio is introduced to a songwriter named Bob Gaudio (Preston Truman Boyd) that all the pieces come together for what will become the Four Seasons.
Des McAnuff staged the action with all the kinetic energy of a Martin Scorsese gangster movie, with scenes changing with cinematic speed and fluidity. The book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice compresses a good 40 years of history into a fast-moving, often sharply funny, and surprisingly rich story that gives each main character a “season” in which to tell his version of the story. And while Brickman and Elice may have taken a few liberties with the facts, as Tommy DeVito says, “You ask four guys how it happened, you get four different versions.”
The four guys telling those stories in this production are top-notch. I’ve heard other actors in the role of Frankie Valli who do a more exact job of recreating Valli’s distinctive falsetto, but I haven’t seen anyone give a more deeply felt, more finely nuanced performance than Bwarie, whether it’s as the wide-eyed young Frankie at the start or a grieving father at the end.
He’s also the most physically active Frankie, dropping into the splits in some of the dance moments. And Bwarie’s singing has great energy and passion, especially in the second act, when each performance is Frankie Valli basically singing to save his life — for example, in a bravura performance of “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You,” where all the desperation turns into triumph.
Gardiner is just about perfect as DeVito — a tight, compact bundle of single-minded ambition and potential violence, the sort of guy who always talks about getting out of “the neighborhood” but can never leave it behind. He delivers DeVito’s wiseguy patter so naturally you would think Gardiner had just stepped off the red-eye from Newark.
Boyd has a singing voice about as strong and wide-ranging as Bwarie’s, as he demonstrates in “December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night).” And he has a fine sense of comic timing makes his delivery of Gaudio’s droll one-liners crackle with dry wit. And Boyd projects so confident a presence that, even when Gaudio begins to move out of the spotlight, Boyd continues to make him fascinating to watch. Lomenda makes the most of Massi’s relatively few lines, so that just about everything he says comes as a surprise, like his hilarious outburst about DeVito’s personal habits in the midst of a tense scene involving a couple of mobsters.
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Jersey Boys musical is 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.
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Jersey Boys second national tour will be in Atlanta GA starting Tuesday, May 22 through Sunday, June 10, 2012. The musical last visited Atlanta in 2009.
“It’s a story about rags to riches and friendship,” said Ron Melrose, the in charge of the most crucial element of the show – the music. he said. “It’s universal.”
As the music supervisor Melrose also handles vocal arrangements and incidental music, Melrose travels to many of the cities where the tour stops, watches a handful of performances and then gives notes to the local conductor.
While the show presents more than 30 songs, there are obvious spikes in audience attention level. That trio of “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry” and “Walk Like a Man” – which Melrose refers to as “the big three” – are unveiled in succession.
The Winspear Opera House presents the National Tour of the Jersey Boys Broadway for a month long run. Jersey Boys tour will stay in Dallas, Texas for more than 4 weeks from June 12 through July 15, 2012.
Jersey Boys creative team – director Des McAnuff, book writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, composer Bob Gaudio, lyricist Bob Crewe and choreography by Sergio Trujillo.
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 Winspear Opera House Schedule:
Tuesday to Friday – 8:00 PM
Saturday – 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Sunday – 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM
Special matinee on Thursday, July 12 at 2:00 PM
There is no 7:30 PM show on Sunday, July 15 as the tour closes with the 2:00 PM show.
Jersey Boys Return to Orpheum Theatre Memphis during the Holidays season 2012. Jersey Boys Tour will stop in Memphis, TN for the period of Dec 04, 2012 to Dec 16, 2012.
Jersey Boys musical is 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 Of You.”
Jersey Boys will be performing at Orpheum Theatre TN from Tuesday Dec 04, 2012 and continue through Sunday Dec 16, 2012. Buy Jersey Boys Memphis TN Tickets Online. Get $10 OFF on Jersey Boys Orpheum Theatre TN Ticket Orders of $350 or more by using code #SpringSavings at Checkout!
Jersey Boys, Tony-winning musical highlights Civic Center’s Broadway theater series. Jersey Boys will play at Peoria Civic Center Theatre for only two weeks from February 12 to February 24, 2013.
The 2006 Tony Award-winning musical is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history, the Four Seasons. Features the tunes “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” Rag Doll” and “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.” Jersey Boys Musical show is separated into “Four Seasons”, with each member of the group taking a chance to narrate the story of the band from their own point of view.
New season tickets for the series go on sale in June. Season ticket holders receive the first opportunity to purchase the best available seats, discounts on ticket prices, and advance notice on theatrical events at the Peoria Civic Center.
WestCoast Entertainment has announced that Jersey Boys musical will play a three-week engagement in Spokane Washington this fall. Jersey Boys will play at INB Performing Arts Center from October 17 to November 3 , 2012.
Jersey Boys musical play tells the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, it has garnered several awards, including the 2006 Tony for best musical, and that year’s Grammy Award for best musical show album. This is 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!
“THE MOST EXCITING MUSICAL BROADWAY HAS SEEN IN YEARS.” – Chicago Tribune
“IT WILL RUN FOR CENTURIES!” proclaims Time Magazine.
“TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE!” raves the New York Post for Jersey Boys, winner of the 2006 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Show Album and most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, features their hit songs “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Rag Doll,” “Oh What a Night” and “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.”
The Jersey Boys creative team comprises two-time Tony Award winning director Des McAnuff, book writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, composer Bon Gaudio, lyricist Bob Crewe and choreography by Sergio Trujillo.
Jersey Boys, the musical story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, is back in Chicago at the Bank of America Theatre.
Jersey Boys, Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi, young blue-collar gentlemen of the Garden State, working their way back to you, have returned to Chicago’s Bank of America Theatre for a nine-week stand.
Jersey Boys, coming on top of the initial Chicago run of a mere two-and-half years. And when you’re running that long in Chicago, where international tourists are thinner on the ground, you’re reaching a pretty hefty percentage of the local population.
So if you were one of the 1.3 million people who saw the theatrical story of Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi during that 2007-10 engagement, and I bet you are, and you are contemplating another go-around with the sweetie who loves you, a big juicy steak on the town, and some bonding time with the big-ticket “Bye Bye Baby” boys, you’ll want to know if the national tour compares sufficiently favorably with the dedicated Chicago company not to let you and yours down.
Joseph Leo Bwarie, the current Frankie, is one of the premiere Frankies of the franchise, for this show, soon to also be a movie, is most certainly now a franchise. Especially when you see Bwarie alongside the apple-cheeked Preston Truman Boyd, who plays Gaudio, you think at first that you’re suddenly watching “Sons of Jersey Boys,” but baby-faced Bwarie is deceptive in the early scenes, because he knows how to show some steel and take command of the show. Bwarie, whose fine performance is enough to merit a return for fans of this show (note that he does not perform matinees), doesn’t rely on tricks so much as, simply put, a beautifully clear and pure voice. I was struck by how many people around me were closing their eyes when he sung, even though he is very easy on the eyes. Not all Frankies have provoked that desire to lose oneself in the vocals.
Other notable performances here include John Gardiner as an especially irritating DeVito, which I intend as a compliment, and Michael Lomenda as an especially strange Massi, ditto. The tempestuous scenes between Valli and his first wife, Mary Delgado (scenes that terrified the creators of this show) pop better here than I’ve ever seen them, thanks to a very shrewd and concise performance from Kara Tremel, a Jersey girl of distinction, even though it’s tough for a girl to get a look-in with this gig.
Read the complete review by Chris Jones, Theater critic {Via WGNRadio.com}
Award-winning musical Jersey Boys’ second national tour is now playing at the Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center, Ohio. Jersey Boys Musical is the story of how a group of blue-collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks became one of the biggest American pop music sensations of all time.
