JERSEY BOYS Chicago Theatre Suffers 'Bomb Threat'

The Chicago Tribune's Chris Jones is reporting in his 'Theater Loop', that The Bank of America Theatre in Chicago's Loop, which the hit musical JERSEY BOYS calls home, was evacuated around 9 p.m. Tuesday night after police found two suspicious boxes with notes attached in the alley outside the theater.

According to a report from the Tribune's William Lee, who was quoting a police source, one letter read "this is not a bomb," and the other note said "this is not going to end good."

Chicago police were treating the incident as a bomb scare, and closed off several neighboring streets in the area.

JERSEY BOYS Chicago stars Michael Cunio as Tommy DeVito, Chicagoan Michael Ingersoll as Nick Massi, Dominic Scaglione Jr. as Frankie Valli, and Shonn Wiley as Bob Gaudio, with Kevin Crewell and Chicagoan Jonathan Weir. The ensemble of JERSEY BOYS includes Mackenzie Bell, Jared Bradshaw, John Michael Coppola, John Michael Dias, Mike Erickson, Alayna Gallo, Steven M. Goldsmith, Merissa Haddad, Tara Macri, Kraig McCreary, Rashad Naylor, Timothy Quinlan, Ryan Quinn West and Chuck Webb.

Directed by two-time Tony Award® - winner Des McAnuff, JERSEY BOYS won both the 2006 Tony Award® for Best Musical and the 2006 Grammy Award® for Best Musical Recording, and most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, and continues to break box office records on Broadway and in Chicago. 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.

Presented by Broadway In Chicago and TheatreDreams, the record-breaking hit JERSEY BOYS is celebrating its second smash year in Chicago. JERSEY BOYS premiered in Chicago on October 5, 2007 and became a resident production on February 27, 2008. The performance schedule is as follows: Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m.; Wednesdays at 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.; Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.; Fridays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.; and Sundays at 2 p.m.

Individual tickets range in price from $30 to $110. A select number of premium seats are also available. Tickets for the finAl Block of performances through January 10, 2010, are on sale now and range in price from $30 - $110. A select number of premium seats are also available. Tickets are available at all Broadway In Chicago Box Offices (24 W. Randolph St., 151 W. Randolph St. and 18 W. Monroe St.); the Broadway In Chicago Ticket Line at (800) 775-2000; all Ticketmaster retail locations (including Hot Tix and select Carson Pirie Scott, Coconuts and fye stores); and online at www.BroadwayInChicago.com. Groups of 15 or more should call (312) 977-1710.

Rush tickets ($25) go on-sale at 10 a.m. (11 a.m. on Sundays) the day of each performance. Ten (10) front row seats are available at the Bank of America Theatre Box Office (18 W. Monroe St.) only. As many as forty (40) additional seats, subject to availability at select performances, are made available online at Ticketmaster.com and at the Bank of America Theatre Box Office. Rush ticket limit is two (2) tickets per patron and all seats are limited view.

For more information on JERSEY BOYS, go to www.JerseyBoysChicago.com orwww.BroadwayInChicago.com.

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