Michael Ingersoll News

STEPPIN' OUT! An Evening with Michael Ingersoll will play a one-night only engagement at the Paramount Theatre Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.

The Chicago Company of JERSEY BOYS will say 'Bye, Bye Baby' to the Windy City on January 10, 2010, after an incredible run of over two years at the Bank of America Theatre. JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, premiered in Chicago initially as a limited engagement on October 5, 2007. After opening to rave reviews, adding additional performance weeks and setting four new box office records, JERSEY BOYS became a resident production on February 27, 2008. The final performance on January 10, 2010, at 2 p.m. will be the Chicago Company's 951st. The final block of tickets for performances from November 24, 2009 - January 10, 2010 will go on sale on Friday, September 11 at 10 a.m.

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Tune-in tomorrow, Friday, December 18 to catch the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning musical JERSEY BOYS on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show.' Oprah re-airs her September 21st episode where she takes a trip back in time to the '60s!

STEPPIN' OUT! An Evening with Michael Ingersoll will play a one-night only engagement at the Paramount Theatre Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.

More than 80 mayors were on hand for a special reception co-hosted by Mayor Richard M. Daley (City of Chicago) and Jeffery T. Sherwin (City of Northlake and Chair, Metropolitan Mayors Caucus). They were able to have a special meet and greet with the Chicago's Four Seasons (Michael Cunio as Tommy DeVito, Michael Ingersoll as Nick Massi, Dominic Scaglione Jr. as Frankie Valli and Shonn Wiley as Bob Gaudio).

In a special event celebration, Chicago Mayors Richard M. Daley (City of Chicago) and Jeffery T. Sherwin (City of Northlake and Chair, Metropolitan Mayors Caucus) will host mayors from the metropolitan area honoring the company of JERSEY BOYS, commemorating over two years of performances in Chicago at the Bank of America Theatre. The event will takes tonight, October 27 beginning at 6:45 p.m, with 9:45 p.m. special onstage curtain call at the Bank of America Theatre.

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.

As a special thank you to Chicago and to commemorate the second anniversary of performances at the Bank of America Theatre, the Chicago company of JERSEY BOYS will host four 'Stage Side Chats' with cast members. Audience members at Tuesday night performances through the month of October (October 6, 13, 20 and 27) will be invited to a brief question and answer session following that evening's performance with the actors who bring this show to life eight times a week. This is the last chance theatergoers will have to get up close and personal with Chicago's JERSEY BOYS before they end their run at the Bank of America Theater on January 10, 2010.

Performing on 'Oprah' were the stars of the Chicago company of JERSEY BOYS: Michael Cunio, Michael Ingersoll, Dominic Scaglione, Jr. and Shonn Wiley. 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.

Tune-in Monday, September 21 as the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning musical JERSEY BOYS join Oprah for a trip back in time to the '60s! Featuring a blast-from-the-past '60s themed set, a studio audience decked out in their best '60s costumes, and appearances by the stars of AMC's hit series 'Mad Men' and some surprise guests, it's a retro hour you won't want to miss. Plus, Oprah unveils what would have been her 'Favorite Things' from the 1960s and JERSEY BOYS perform! 'The Oprah Winfrey Show: Oprah Goes Back in Time - The '60s' airs Monday, Sept. 21. Click here to check local listings.

Tune-in Monday, September 21 as the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning musical JERSEY BOYS join Oprah for a trip back in time to the '60s! Featuring a blast-from-the-past '60s themed set, a studio audience decked out in their best '60s costumes, and appearances by the stars of AMC's hit series 'Mad Men' and some surprise guests, it's a retro hour you won't want to miss.

Tune-in Monday, September 21 as the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning musical JERSEY BOYS join Oprah for a trip back in time to the '60s! Featuring a blast-from-the-past '60s themed set, a studio audience decked out in their best '60s costumes, and appearances by the stars of AMC's hit series 'Mad Men' and some surprise guests, it's a retro hour you won't want to miss. Plus, Oprah unveils what would have been her 'Favorite Things' from the 1960s and JERSEY BOYS perform! 'The Oprah Winfrey Show: Oprah Goes Back in Time - The '60s' airs Monday, Sept. 21. Click here to check local listings.

The Chicago Company of JERSEY BOYS will say 'Bye, Bye Baby' to the Windy City on January 10, 2010, after an incredible run of over two years at the Bank of America Theatre. JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, premiered in Chicago initially as a limited engagement on October 5, 2007. After opening to rave reviews, adding additional performance weeks and setting four new box office records, JERSEY BOYS became a resident production on February 27, 2008. The final performance on January 10, 2010, at 2 p.m. will be the Chicago Company's 951st. The final block of tickets for performances from November 24, 2009 - January 10, 2010 will go on sale on Friday, September 11 at 10 a.m.

Presented by Broadway In Chicago and TheatreDreams, the blockbuster hit JERSEY BOYS is now in its second smash year in Chicago. JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, premiered in Chicago on October 5, 2007 and became a resident production on February 27, 2008. JERSEY BOYS tells 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.

On Saturday, July 4th, cast members from the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning international hit JERSEY BOYS performed live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. for PBS' 'A Capitol Fourth' TV special.

The Chicago Company of JERSEY BOYS welcomes three new, talented performers to the cast - Michael Cunio as Tommy DeVito, Dominic Scaglione Jr. as Frankie Valli and Shonn Wiley as Bob Gaudio. Wiley and Scaglione Jr. have already been welcomed by Chicago audiences to their new roles. Cunio is set to make his JERSEY BOYS debut in Chicago on April 24, 2009.

The Chicago Company of JERSEY BOYS welcomes three new, talented performers to the cast - Michael Cunio as Tommy DeVito, Dominic Scaglione Jr. as Frankie Valli and Shonn Wiley as Bob Gaudio. Wiley and Scaglione Jr. have already been welcomed by Chicago audiences to their new roles. Cunio is set to make his JERSEY BOYS debut in Chicago on April 24, 2009.

The Chicago company of Jersey Boys will place a new block of tickets on-sale to the public Friday, January 23 at 10 a.m. for performances April 14 - July 12, 2009. 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 (312) 902-1400; all Ticketmaster retail locations (including Hot Tix and select Carson Pirie Scott, Coconuts and fye stores); and online at www.BroadwayInChicago.com. Presented by Broadway In Chicago and TheatreDreams, the blockbuster hit Jersey Boys is celebrating its second smash year in Chicago. Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, premiered in Chicago on October 5, 2007 and became a resident production on February 27, 2008. The show is currently playing at the Bank of America Theatre (18 W. Monroe St.) in an open run. Jersey Boys tells 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. 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 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.

Monday Nights New Voices: Chicago will present the song cycle, Homemade Fusion, for Broadway Cares - Equity Fights AIDS, on September 29, 2008 at the Chicago Center for Performing Arts main stage.