The Detroit engagement of JERSEY BOYS set a new box office record at the Fisher Theatre for the week ending Sunday, December 27. The show grossed $1,251,618.00, breaking the previous record of $1,225,511 held by Spamalot in December 2006.
JERSEY BOYS opened to rave reviews on Saturday, December 19 and will play through Saturday evening, January 23. The national tour will next play Memphis, TN from January 27 through February 14, 2010.
The cast of JERSEY BOYS is led 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 Candi Boyd,
Sarah Darling,
Christopher Deangelis,
Graham Fenton,
John Gardiner,
Buck Hujabre,
Leo Huppert,
Michelle Knight,
Brandon Matthieus,
Denise Payne,
Nathan Scherich,
Brian Silverman,
Courter Simmons,
Ryan Strand,
Kara Tremel 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.
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 Original Broadway Cast Recording of JERSEY BOYS was produced by
Bob Gaudio, and was recently certified Platinum 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.
For tickets and more information visit www.JerseyBoysInfo.com.
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