January 25, 2011
Jersey Boys Musical sets Box Office Records For 2nd Time In Boston, grossing $1,147,250 for the week ending January 23, 2011. This tops the previous record of $1,127,032 for the week ending January 2, 2011.
Jersey Boys began performances in Boston on Thursday, December 16 and will play through Sunday, January 30.
The cast of Jersey Boys is lead by Matt Bailey (Tommy DeVito), Joseph Leo Bwarie (Frankie Valli), original Broadway cast member Steve Gouveia (Nick Massi), Quinn VanAntwerp (Bob Gaudio), with Jonathan Hadley and Joseph Siravo.
Jersey Boys is the winner of the 2006 Best Musical Tony Award®, the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical and the 2010 Helpmann Award for Best Musical (Australia).
Jersey Boys is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. It’s a journey 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. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide – all before they were thirty.
Jersey Boys will be performing at the Colonial Theatre until January 30, 2011. Jersey Boys will next play Baltimore, Hippodrome Theatre from February 2 through February 27.
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January 12, 2011
The cast of “Jersey Boys,’’ the musical that’s shattering Boston box office records, took to the parquet at the TD Garden last night to belt out the national anthem before the Celtics [team stats]-Rockets tilt.
The touring company, which has never returned to a city except for Boston, has been embraced by theatergoers who can’t get enough of the story and music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
“Boston is the first city we’ve ever gone back to and we love it,’’ said Joseph Leo Bwarie, the Emerson College grad who channels Frankie and his falsetto six shows a week. “We’ve had the highest box office sales in the history of the Colonial Theatre. And (the theater) is 110 years old!’’
Bwarie said Boston is so taken with the Tony Award-winning musical that during a show last Saturday night, the fire alarm went off during Act 2 and the audience barely skipped a beat.
“The enthusiasm was hot, smokin’ hot,’’ laughed Joe. “During a tender moment of the show. we all had to be evacuated from the building. So there were these lovely ladies in their 70s coming down the fire escapes in their sequins and jewels to the back alley of the Colonial.”
The cast and audience cooled their heels outdoors until they got the signal that it was OK to go back inside, whereupon a good 90 percent of the audience returned to see the end of the show!
“So we went back and finished,’’ he said. “But while we were waiting in the wings and everyone was being seated, the entire audience sang, ‘Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.’ Can you imagine? It was incredible.’’
Jersey Boys will be performing at the Colonial Theatre until January 30, 2011 then it’s off to Hippodrome Performing Arts Center in Baltimore MD.
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January 5, 2011
The Boston engagement of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning musical Jersey Boys broke the box office record at the Colonial Theatre, grossing $1,127,032 for the week ending January 2, 2011. This tops the previous record of $1,115,241 set by The Producers in 2003, according to Broadway Across America.
Jersey Boys began performances in Boston on Thursday, December 16 and will play through Sunday, January 30. Jersey Boys will next play Baltimore, Hippodrome Performing Arts Center from February 2 through February 27.
Jersey Boys’ still has a few weeks to try to break its own record: The show runs through Jan. 30.
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December 16, 2010
Jersey Boys has joined together with the Italian Home for Children to help bring joy to those in need this holiday season. During performances of Jersey Boys December 16th – 19th patrons attending a performance are invited to bring an unwrapped toy to Boston’s Colonial Theatre to be donated to a Boston area child.
Jersey Boys is playing a limited engagement at Boston’s Colonial Theatre from December 16th – January 30th.
Holiday Toy collection will take place from December 16th to 19th, 2010. All toys must be delivered by December 19th to ensure delivery to the children by Christmas.
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December 10, 2010
Jersey Boys visiting Boston, MA from December 16, 2010 and playing through January 30, 2011.
Joseph Leo Bwarie will star in “Jersey Boys, The story of Frankie Valli &The Four Seasons” at the Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston St., Boston, Dec. 16-Jan. 30.
Joseph Leo Bwarie will star in “Jersey Boys at the Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston St., Boston, December 16, 2010 to January 30, 2011
Joseph Leo Bwarie, who has been playing Frankie Valli in the national tour of the musical mega-hit “Jersey Boys” since 2007, returning to Boston at the
Colonial Theatre in Boston.
“My contract was to end in Philadelphia on Dec. 12, but I extended because I said there was no way anyone else was going to play Frankie Valli in Boston. This will be the tour’s first ever repeat city in four years on the road which is momentous. We finally get to use ‘Working our Way Back to You’ as our advertising slogan,” explained Bwarie, a 1999 graduate of Emerson College, last week by telephone. “I grew up in southern California, but my family on both my Mom’s and Dad’s sides are all from greater Boston – from Westford, to Arlington, Belmont, Brookline, and Braintree. I have family all over Massachusetts. When ‘Jersey Boys’ played Boston last summer, we did one show where the entire Shubert mezzanine was filled with just my family members.”
“As a singer, I’m very honored to be compared to Frankie Valli. To me, the voice people hear in the show is just me, Joe Bwarie. This is just what I sound like. I had always been cast to sing the high parts, but I had never performed any of this music before I got this role and no one had ever told me I sounded like Frankie Valli. If I can come close to what he sounds like then that, of course, is the goal.”
Bwarie hasn’t made up his mind yet whether or not this Boston engagement will be his last with “Jersey Boys,” but he does know he’d like to see his own name on the marquee one day in the future.
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November 13, 2010
Jersey Boys will be visiting Boston’s Colonial Theatre December 16 playing through January 30, 2011.
Casting has been announced for the Boston engagement of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award winning hit musical Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. The cast of Jersey Boys will be led by Matt Bailey (Tommy DeVito), Joseph Leo Bwarie (Frankie Valli), Steve Gouveia (Nick Massi) and Quinn VanAntwerp (Bob Gaudio) as The Four Seasons, with Jonathan Hadley and Joseph Siravo. Jersey Boys is part of the Lexus Boston Area Dealers Broadway Across America – Boston Series. Ticketing information can be found at the end of this release.
The ensemble of Jersey Boys includes Candi Boyd, Jared Bradshaw, Christopher Deangelis, John Michael Dias, John Edwards, Alayna Gallo, John Gardiner, Buck Hujabre, Denise Payne, Brian Silverman, Courter Simmons, Ryan Strand, Lauren Tartaglia, Kara Tremel, Mark Verdino and Kevin Worley.
Jersey Boys opened at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway to critical acclaim on November 6, 2005. The Jersey Boys National Tour opened to rave reviews in San Francisco on December 1, 2006, played a record-breaking run in Los Angeles and is still breaking house records in cities across North America. There are five Current Productions of Jersey Boys: New York, London, Las Vegas, Sydney, Australia and a US National tour.
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