Tune-in Monday, September 21 as the Tony®, Grammy® and Olivier® Award-winning musical JERSEY BOYS join Oprah for a trip back in time to the '60s! Featuring a blast-from-the-past '60s themed set, a studio audience decked out in their best '60s costumes, and appearances by the stars of AMC's hit series "Mad Men" and some surprise guests, it's a retro hour you won't want to miss. Plus, Oprah unveils what would have been her "Favorite Things" from the 1960s and JERSEY BOYS perform! "The Oprah Winfrey Show: Oprah Goes Back in Time - The '60s" airs Monday, Sept. 21.
Performing on "Oprah" will be the stars of the Chicago company of JERSEY BOYS: Michael Cunio, Michael Ingersoll, Dominic Scaglione, Jr. and Shonn Wiley. JERSEY BOYS is the winner of the 2006 Best Musical Tony Award®, the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album, and most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical.
Directed by two-time Tony Award® winner Des McAnuff, JERSEY BOYS is written by Academy Award-winner Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe and choreography bySergio Trujillo.
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. The Chicago production premiered on October 5, 2007, became a resident production there on February 27, 2008 and is currently playing at the Bank of America Theatre (18 W. Monroe St.) through January 10, 2010. There are sevenCurrent Productions of JERSEY BOYS: New York, London, Chicago, Las Vegas, Toronto, a US National tour, and Melbourne, 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.
The JERSEY BOYS design and production team comprises Klara Zieglerova (Scenic Design), Jess Goldstein (Costume Design), Howell Binkley (winner of the 2006 Tony Award® for his Lighting Design of JERSEY BOYS), Steve Canyon Kennedy (Sound Design), Michael Clark (Projections Design), Charles LaPointe (Wig and Hair Design), Steve Orich (Orchestrations) and Ron Melrose (Music Direction, Vocal Arrangements & Incidental Music).
The Original Broadway Cast Recording of JERSEY BOYS was produced by Bob Gaudio, and was recently certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. The cast recording is now available on Rhino Records. JERSEY BOYS: The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons (Broadway Books) is the official handbook to the smash Broadway hit.
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Dominic Scaglione Jr., Shonn Wiley, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Cunio and Michael Ingersoll
