Jersey Boys Tour to Play Sacramento After Los Angeles

Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, will premiere in Sacramento in September, 2007 as part of a National Tour.  Directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Des McAnuff, Jersey Boys won four 2006 Tony Awards including Best Musical and continues to set new weekly box office records at the August Wilson Theatre, where it has remained among the five top grossing shows in New York since opening in November, 2005.  The show is written by Academy Award winner Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe and choreography by Sergio Trujillo.

The musical will be presented at the Community Center Theater by California Musical Theater, the region's largest nonprofit arts organization, as part of its Broadway Sacramento Season.  The engagement will run September 7-22, and single-show tickets will go on sale on Monday, July 30.  The show is currently available to Broadway Sacramento subscribers and to groups of 12 or more.

Jersey Boys is "the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story 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," state press notes.

Casting for the Sacramento engagement will be announced at a later date.

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 show is produced by Dodger Theatricals, Joseph J. Grano, Tamara and Kevin Kinsella, Pelican Group, in association with Latitude Link and Rick Steiner.

Jersey Boys debuted at the La Jolla Playhouse on October 5, 2004, where it became the most successful production in the history of the playhouse, extending three times. The show opened to critical acclaim at the August Wilson Theatre on November 6, 2005. 

The Grammy Award-winning cast recording, produced by Bob Gaudio, is available now on Rhino Records.

Visit the Jersey Boys website at www.JerseyBoysInfo.com.

Photo of Michael Ingersoll, Christopher Kale Jones, Erich Bergen and Deven May by Joan Marcus