The record-breaking Chicago Company of Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, is thrilled to celebrate its first anniversary in Chicago on Tuesday, October 14, 2008. In celebration of this major event, a new block of tickets for performances through April 12, 2009 will go on-sale to the public at 10 a.m. Jersey Boys will also hold a citywide lunchtime pizza party, giving away 4,000 slices of Home Run Inn Pizza at various locations throughout the city, from noon – 1 p.m. and present a special anniversary performance at the Bank of America Theatre that evening at 7:30 p.m.
New Block of Tickets
Tickets for performances January 13 – April 12, 2009 will go on-sale to the public on Tuesday, October 14 at 10 a.m. Tickets are available by calling the Broadway In Chicago Ticket Line at (312) 902-1400, at Broadway In Chicago box offices (18 W. Monroe, 24 W. Randolph St. and 151 W. Randolph St.), at all Ticketmaster retail locations (including Hot Tix, select Carson Pirie Scott, Coconuts and fye stores) or online at ticketmaster.com.
Citywide Pizza Party
Jersey Boys is delighted to thank Chicagoans for their support throughout the past year by offering a citywide lunchtime pizza party, open to the public, featuring 4,000 complimentary slices of Home Run Inn Pizza. From noon – 1 p.m. on Tuesday, October 14, pizza lovers may stop by the Bank of America Theatre (18 W. Monroe St.), Couch Place –
James M. Nederlander Way (State St. between Lake and Randolph), Pioneer Court (401 N Michigan Ave) or the Illinois Center Plaza (111 E. Wacker) to meet cast members and pick up a free slice.
Anniversary Performance
The celebration continues Tuesday evening with the
Jersey Boys official anniversary performance at 7:30 p.m. Following the regular curtain call, the entire cast of
Jersey Boys will perform a special Four Seasons-style arrangement of "My Kind of Town." After the performance,
Jersey Boys ticket holders will be treated to refreshments from Home Run Inn Pizza, Eli's Cheesecake and Coca-Cola and a chance to mingle with the cast of
Jersey Boys. Tickets to the anniversary performance are currently on-sale.
Presented by Broadway In Chicago and TheatreDreams,
Jersey Boys, now playing at the Bank of America Theatre (18 W Monroe St), opened in Chicago on October 14, 2007 (with previews from October 5, 2007) and became a resident production on February 27, 2008.
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 continues to break box office records on Broadway at the
August Wilson Theatre since opening in November 2005. The
Jersey Boys North American Tour opened to rave reviews in San Francisco on December 1, 2006 and played a 44-week, record-breaking run. The show is currently playing in New York, Chicago, Las Vegas, London, Toronto and in cities across the U.S. on a National Tour, and will open in Melbourne, Australia in March, 2009.
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.
Jersey Boys is produced by
Dodger Theatricals, Joseph J. Grano, Tamara and
Kevin Kinsella,
Pelican Group with
Latitude Link and
Rick Steiner.
Tickets for
Jersey Boys range in price from $30 - $110. A limited number of premium seats are available. Tickets are available at Broadway In Chicago Box Offices (18 W. Monroe, 24 W. Randolph St. and 151 W. Randolph St.), through the Broadway In Chicago Ticket Line at (312) 902-1400, at all Ticketmaster retail locations (including Hot Tix, select Carson Pirie Scott, Coconuts and fye stores) or online at ticketmaster.com. Groups should call (312) 977-1710. To search best available seating for upcoming performances, visit www.BroadwayInChicago.com/BestSeats.
Rush tickets ($25) go on-sale at 10 a.m. the day of each performance (11 a.m. on Sundays). Ten (10) front row seats are available at the Bank of America Theatre Box Office (18 W. Monroe) 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 visit
www.JerseyBoysChicago.com or
www.BroadwayInChicago.com.
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