Jersey Boys to Receive Las Vegas Production?

According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal's Mike Weatherford, Jersey Boys may be the latest Broadway smash to receive a Las Vegas production.

The Tony Award-winning musical about the Four Seasons may be headed to The Venetian's Palazzo Tower.  "The Broadway hit is slated for a sit-down run in a new theater, part of the tower scheduled to come on line just north of The Venetian sometime in the fall," he writes.

Las Vegas is currently playing host to somewhat abbreviated productions of The Producers, Mamma Mia! and The Phantom of the Opera (retitled Phantom - The Las Vegas Spectacular), with Spamalot to open in March.  Avenue Q and Hairspray have also been seen in Sin City.

Directed by two-time Tony award-winner Des McAnuff, Jersey Boys won four 2006 Tony Awards including Best Musical and continues to break box office records at the August Wilson Theatre since opening in November of 2005.   Jersey Boys 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.

"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," according to press notes. 

The show stars Tony Award-winners John Lloyd Young and Christian Hoff, as well as Daniel Reichard and J. Robert Spencer.  A national tour is currently circling the country.  On Broadway, Jersey Boys has been grossing over a million dollars every week.

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