January 10, 2012
Award-winning hit musical Jersey Boys launches it’s new second national tour at the Forrest Theatre performances starting from December 6, 2011.
Jersey Boys, the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning hit musical, set a new box office record for a standard 8 show week at Philadelphia’s Forrest Theater this past week (week ending 1/8/12) with a gross of $1,617,700. The previous week (week ending 1/1/12), the show also set a new box office record for a 9-show week with a gross of $1,825,246. Jersey Boys now holds the top 12 weekly box office grosses at the Forrest Theater (combination of 2010 premiere and 2011 return).
Jersey Boys opened to rave reviews in Philadelphia, PA at the Forrest Theater, on Friday, December 9 (performances began Tuesday, December 6) and will play through Saturday, January 14, 2012. From Philadelphia, Jersey Boys will play Dayton, OH’s Schuster Performing Arts Center Tuesday, January 17 through Sunday, February 5.
The cast of Jersey Boys is lead by Brandon Andrus (Nick Massi), Colby Foytik (Tommy DeVito),Jason Kappus (Bob Gaudio) and Brad Weinstock (Frankie Valli), with Barry Anderson and Thomas Fiscella. The ensemble of Jersey Boys includes Stephen Cerf, E. Clayton Cornelious, Kaleigh Cronin, Brent DiRoma, Larry Esparza, Natalie Gallo, Devon Goffman, Wes Hart, Dave Hiltebrand, Ruby Lewis, Christopher Messina, Hayden Milanes, Michelle Pruiett, Skye Scott and Carlos Valdes.
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December 23, 2011
Jersey Boys Second National Tour Kick start performances at Forrest Theatre from Dec 06, 2011 and play through Jan 14, 2012. When the national touring company of “Jersey Boys” came to Philadelphia’s Forrest Theatre last year, it broke all box office records — more than 140,000 people saw it during its run.
So when the producers launched the second national touring production of “Jersey Boys” they chose Philadelphia as its first stop. The show is now playing at the Forrest Theatre through Jan. 14. “Jersey Boys” tells the story of Frankie Valli and the 1960s pop singing group the Four Seasons
“Philadelphia was an important city in launching the career of the Four Seasons,” says Rick Elice, who wrote the book for “Jersey Boys” with Marshall Brickman. “When the group came to Philadelphia in 1962, the city embraced them so wholeheartedly that their lives were irreversibly changed. They sold more than 120,000 records and they were stars.
“What makes this story so compelling is that this group of blue-collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks became one of the biggest American pop music sensations. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide — all before they were 30.”
“Jersey Boys” also launched Elice’s career. The show was his first Broadway credit and it won the Tony, Olivier, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League and Grammy awards for Best Musical. He and Brickman also wrote the book for “The Addams Family,” now playing at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. And Elice wrote the book for last year’s Off Broadway hit, “Peter and the Starcatcher,” a prequel to the story of Peter Pan. Elice is hoping that it will move to a Broadway theater.
When “Jersey Boys” first opened at the LaJolla Playhouse, no one was more surprised at its success than Elice, Brickman and its director Des McAnuff.
“We were shocked when we first did it in LaJolla,” recalls Elice. “On opening night, the audience loved it and this was Beach Boy-territory, not Four Seasons. Marshall and Des said this must be some mistake, but the second night response was the same.”
“Jersey Boys” opened on Broadway in 2005 and became a hit. Today there are six productions of “Jersey Boys” playing worldwide.
“This is a great show,” says Elice. “It has great music and all those Four Seasons hits. It delivers a great story and the audience has a great time. Bob Gaudio and Frankie took what was essentially a low art form and elevated it on to the stage. They did to music what Roy Lichtenstein did for pop art; they took blue collar music to regular people.”
Elice says while the story and the music remain the same, new technology has improved the staging. “We didn’t have LED technology when ‘Jersey Boys’ first opened in 2005. In those days all we had was a single projector to project the slides. The show has now been refitted and its staging and projections are much more dramatic and very high-tech.”
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November 18, 2011
Award-winning hit musical Jersey Boys will launch it’s new second national tour at the Forrest Theatre performances starting from December 6, 2011 playing through January 14, 2012.
Casting has been announced for the Philadelphia return engagement of Jersey Boys Musical. The cast will be led by Philadelphia-area native Brandon Andrus (Nick Massi), Colby Foytik (Tommy DeVito), Jason Kappus (Bob Gaudio) and Brad Weinstock (Frankie Valli) as The Four Seasons, with Barry Anderson and Thomas Fiscella.
Brandon Andrus, Brad Weinstock, Jason Kappus and Colby Foytik
Brad Weinstock, a Jersey boy himself, was seen in the Las Vegas production of the show and played Boq in the first national tour of Wicked. Foytik, also from the Las Vegas production of Jersey Boys, played Perchik in Fiddler on the Roof opposite both Topol and Harvey Fierstein. Andrus played Curly in the first national tour of Oklahoma! and has also been seen in Xanadu. Kappus appeared on Broadway in American Idiot and was also seen in the national tour of Legally Blonde.
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September 21, 2011
The Philadelphia return engagement of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning hit musical Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, playing the Forrest Theatre December 6 through January 14, 2012 for 48 performances. Jersey Boys is part of the Broadway Season presented in Philadelphia by The Kimmel Center and The Shubert Organization. Jersey Boys at the Forrest Theatre broke box office records and entertained over 140,000 theatergoers last year. Jersey Boys now holds the record for the highest weekly gross ever at the Forrest Theatre.
Jersey Boys Forrest Theatre Performance Schedule:
Evenings:
Tuesday through Thursday – 7:30 pm
Friday & Saturday – 8:00 pm
Sunday – 6:30 pm
Matinees:
Saturdays – 2:00 pm
Sundays – 1:00 pm
Dec. 21, Dec. 28 and Jan. 11 – 2:00 pm
Additional: Dec. 19, Dec. 26 and Jan. 9 – 7:30 pm
No performances on Saturday, Dec. 24, Sunday, Dec. 25 and Sunday, Jan 1.
To remind you again, The Philadelphia engagement is scheduled to end on Saturday, Jan. 14, instead of the previously announced Jan. 15 end date.
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November 11, 2010
The Philadelphia engagement of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning musical Jersey Boys broke the box office record at the Forrest Theatre for the third time, grossing $1,290,854 for the week ending November 5. This tops the previous record of $1,262,731, that they set the week ending October 17.
Jersey Boys Philadelphia performances began in on Thursday, September 30 and will play through Sunday, December 12. Jersey Boys will next play Boston’s Colonial Theatre from December 16 through 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.
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, Kara Tremel, Mark Verdino and Kevin Worley.
Jersey Boys is the winner of the 2006 Best Musical Tony Award(r), 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).
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October 5, 2010
Another rave review for the Jersey Boys national tour in Philadelphia.
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You’ll have a good time. My hand to God. My lips should fall off my face if I’m telling you wrong. Jersey Boys, which has been touring the world, winning prizes (Tony, Grammy, Olivier) wherever it goes, is the story of guys who grew up in a tough Italian neighborhood in New Jersey and became the Four Seasons. It’s like a singing Sopranos, with a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, lyrics by Bob Crewe, and directed by Des McAnuff.
Frankie Valli (Joseph Leo Bwarie) is just a teenager with a killer falsetto and melting eyes when he finds his local guy-mentor, mobbed-up Tommy DeVito (Matt Bailey – why, oh, why, am I still falling for the sexy bad boys?). What with one street-corner singer or another going to prison, it’s hard to keep a group together. But eventually, with the addition of Nick Massi (Steve Gouveia) and the songwriter Bob Gaudio (Quinn VanAntwerp), the Four Seasons rock to the top of the charts and, eventually, the Hall of Fame.
The cast members, who can act as well as sing, are also sound-alikes/look-alikes for people who remember the originals. Besides the four, Joseph Siravo, as both the mob boss and a smarmy record producer, is terrific, and a slew of capable others play multiple roles in a show that never lags.
The set is mostly just a stage with a catwalk and some movable furniture, but the wit in Klara Zieglerova’s design lies in the huge Roy Lichtenstein paintings that loom over the stage, illustrating and commenting on the action onstage.
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October 4, 2010
Steve Gouveia, Matt Bailey, Joseph Leo Bwarie and Ryan Jesse star as The Four Seasons in 'Jersey Boys,' a musical about the 1960s hitmakers now at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia
“Jersey Boys,” now electrifying audiences at Philadelphia’s Forrest Theatre, is an extraordinarily polished production. From its opening moments, this musical about 1960s crooner Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons dazzles and delights with its engaging, incredibly talented cast, its complex staging, its visual detail and its non-stop energy.
Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff and Tony Award-winning choregrapher Sergio Trujillo have put together a show that is full of rocking music, graceful dance steps, engrossing visual details, neon overhead lighting effects and heart.
This musical bio is complex, full of drama, and oh yes, melodrama. Marshall Brickman’s and Rick Elice’s book not only tells the rags to riches rise to musical stardom of the Jersey Boys, but they have captured the uniqueness of Jersey. Brickman and Elice have an uncanny ear for the language, speech patterns and the far-too- many four letter words which punctuate their blue collar/Mafia-influenced conversation.
And then there is the music — 27 classic hits, including “Sherry,” “Oh What a Night,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Walk Like a Man,” “Rag Doll” and “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.” But what makes this music even more spectacular is the arrangements. Each song is first sung simply and then the arrangement is gussied up with show biz razzle dazzle until it becomes a fully orchestrated extravaganza.
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