JERSEY BOYS Becomes Latest Broadway Show to Switch to Digital Lottery

BroadwayWorld has learned that Broadway's Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award winning smash hit Jersey Boys that beginning Friday, August 14, a limited number of tickets per performance will be sold to winners of a digital lottery drawing. Tickets are $27 and limited to two per person. For details and entrance to the digital lottery, visit JerseyBoysInfo.com/broadway/lottery. Entrants will be notified of their status three hours prior to show time. Tickets must be claimed and paid for at the August Wilson Theatre Box Office (245 W. 52nd Street; NYC) no later than 30 minutes prior to the performance.

Jersey Boys will continue to offer a limited number of general student rush tickets sold at the box office beginning at 10 AM for that day's performance. Tickets are $27, subject to availability and are limited to two per person per 30 day period.

Jersey Boys is now in its 10th year on Broadway where it is the longest running show in the history of New York's August Wilson Theatre. The show continues to play in Las Vegas at the Paris Las Vegas, in London at the Piccadilly Theatre, and in cities across North America and in the United Kingdom on national tours. Jersey Boys is written by Academy Award-winner Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, and is directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Des McAnuff and choreographed by Sergio Trujillo.

Jersey Boys goes behind the music and inside the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. They were just four guys from Jersey, until they sang their very first note. They had a sound nobody had ever heard... and the radio just couldn't get enough of. But while their harmonies were perfect on stage, off stage it was a very different story - a story that has made them an international sensation all over again. The show features the legendary top ten hits "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Walk Like A Man," "Can't Take My Eyes Off You," "December, 1963 (Oh What A Night)" and others.

Jersey Boys is the recipient of the 2006 Tony Award for Best Musical and the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Musical. The Original Broadway Cast Recording, produced by Bob Gaudio, received the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and has been certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The Broadway production also won the 2006 Outer Critics Circle & Drama League Awards for Best Musical. The London production also won the 2009 UK People's Choice and What's on Stage Awards for Best New Musical. The Toronto production is the winner of three Dora Awards, including the Audience Choice Award for Outstanding Production. The Australian production is the 2010 recipient of the Helpmann Award for Australia's Best Musical and seven Victorian Green Room Awards.

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