Jersey Boys musical on Broadway is now playing at the August Wilson Theatre (245 West 52nd Street, New York, New York 10019). The production opened on Broadway on November 6, 2005 and has gone on to be seen by over 18 million people worldwide (as of July, 2013).
The producers of the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Best musical Jersey Boys have announced that Richard H. Blake (Legally Blonde, Wicked) will join the cast on Thursday, January 9, 2014 in the role of “Tommy DeVito.” He assumes the role from Andy Karl who departs the production following the Sunday, December 1st performance. John Gardiner, who played “Tommy” on the national tour, will perform the role from December 3, 2013 through Wednesday, January 8, 2014.
Jersey Boys is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi, 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 thirty. The show 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.”
With the 8:00 PM show on Saturday evening, September 7, the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical Jersey Boys became the 15th longest-running show in Broadway history surpassing Fiddler on the Roof with 3,243 performances.
Jersey Boys is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi, 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 thirty. The show 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.”
Jersey Boys Broadway Update Cast:
Matt Bogart as Nick Massi
Drew Gehling as Bob Gaudio
Andy Karl as Tommy DeVito
Dominic Scaglione, Jr. as Frankie Valli
Others: Peter Gregus and Mark Lotito, and Miles Aubrey, Erik Bates, Candi Boyd, Jared Bradshaw, Joseph Leo Bwarie, Ken Dow, Russell Fischer, John Edwards, Katie O’Toole, Joe Payne, Jessica Rush, Nathan Scherich, Sara Schmidt and Taylor Sternberg.
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 musical is the recipient of the 2006 Tony Award for Best Musical and the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Musical.
Jersey Boys Broadway Musical grossed $817,456 and had an attendance rate of 80.9%, about 0.5% more than that of the previous week. The 23 shows on the boards grossed $18,085,585, improving around 19.04% from the previous week’s totals.
Below are the Top 12 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending March 10, 2013.
Jersey Boys Broadway Musical grossed $955,638 and had an attendance rate of 96.3%, same as that of the previous week. The 28 shows on the boards grossed $23,438,088, improving around 7.38% from the previous week’s totals.
Below are the Top 12 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending 07/15/2012.
Jersey Boys Broadway Musical grossed $887,165 and had an attendance rate of 93.1%, about 0.5% more than that of the previous week. The 30 shows on the boards grossed $23,877,257, slipping around 0.33% from the previous week’s totals.
Below are the Top 12 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending 07/01/2012.
The Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning musical Jersey Boys plays its 2,000th Broadway performance Sept. 11 at 2 PM at the August Wilson Theatre.
The Broadway company of the hit musical currently features Sebastian Arcelus (Bob Gaudio), Matt Bogart (Nick Massi), Dominic Nolfi (Tommy DeVito) and Jarrod Spector (Frankie Valli) as The Four Seasons with Peter Gregus and Mark Lotito. The ensemble comprises Miles Aubrey, Erik Bates, Bridget Berger, Scott J. Campbell, Kris Coleman, Ken Dow, Russell Fischer, Cory Grant, John Hickman, Katie O’Toole, Joe Payne, Jessica Rush, Sara Schmidt and Taylor Sternberg.
Jersey Boys, according to press notes, 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 30.”
