The Raleigh engagement of Jersey Boys opened to rave reviews on Friday night, June 26 at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium, where it will play through July 18, 2009. From there, the national tour will play Boston, MA July 23 through September 26, 2009.
The cast of Jersey Boys is lead by
Matt Bailey (
Tommy DeVito),
Joseph Leo Bwarie (
Frankie Valli),
Josh Franklin (
Bob Gaudio), original Broadway cast member
Steve Gouveia (Nick Massi), with
Jonathan Hadley and
Joseph Siravo.
The Ensemble of Jersey Boys includes
Christopher Deangelis,
Graham Fenton,
John Gardiner,
Buck Hujabre,
Leo Huppert,
Michelle Knight, Renée Marino,
Brandon Matthieus,
Denise Payne,
Nathan Scherich,
Brian Silverman,
Courter Simmons,
Ryan Strand,
Kara Tremel,
Katie Tomlinson and
Kevin Worley.
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 by
Sergio 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, played a record-breaking run in Los Angeles and is still breaking house records in cities across North America. There are seven
Current Productions of Jersey Boys: New York, London, Chicago, Las Vegas, Toronto, a US National tour, and Melbourne, Australia, opening July 4, 2009.
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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