The Show Will Go On- JERSEY BOYS Won't Close During G20 Summit; Offers Discounts

The G20 Summit in Toronto may be closing the downtown Entertainment District, but the show will go on at the Toronto Centre for the Arts where JERSEY BOYS is still going strong in its second year on stage.

From June 21- 27 JERSEY BOYS will be the only Broadway musical running in the GTA. A short subway ride from the G20 Summit, and steps from the North York Centre Subway Station, the theatre is located just off Highway 401 at Yonge Street, with plenty of parking.

Beginning today, for a limited time, the 2-for-1 Boys of Summer Sale is back. Purchase tickets to JERSEY BOYS before June 27, for any performance through July 25, and receive two tickets for the price of one. Visit www.JerseyBoysToronto.com/SUMMER for details and conditions.

JERSEY BOYS tells the story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, following their unlikely rags-to- riches rise from the streets of Newark to the heights of stardom. How did four blue-collar kids become one of the greatest successes in pop music history? You ask four guys, and you get four different answers.

Since its 2005 debut, JERSEY BOYS has become one of Broadway's biggest success stories playing to consistently sold-out crowds and receiving remarkable reviews. The Broadway production is about to celebrate five years, the Toronto production will see its 1,000,000th customer this June, the first national tour is still setting records, and Australia, London, and Las Vegas are also enjoying extended runs.

Currently in its second smash year at the Toronto Centre of the Arts, JERSEY BOYS stars Michael Lomenda as Nick Massi, Jeff Madden as Frankie Valli (2009 Dora Award, Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Musical), Daniel Robert Sullivan as Tommy DeVito and Quinn
VanAntwerp as Bob Gaudio. The company also comprises: Gabriel Antonacci, Matthew G. Brown, Matt Cassidy, Jade Elliott, Élodie Gillett, Bryan Hindle, Victoria Lamond, Aaron MacKenzie, Adrian Marchuk, W. Joseph Matheson, Timothy Sell, Alison Smyth, Grant Tilly, Cleopatra Williams and Shawn Wright.

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 is the winner of the 2006 Best Musical Tony Award®, the 2006 Grammy Award® for Best Musical Show Album (now Platinum), the 2009 Olivier® Award for Best New Musical and the 2009 Audience Choice Award at Toronto's Dora Mavor Moore Awards.

The Canadian production of JERSEY BOYS is produced by Dancap Productions Inc., Dodger Theatricals, Joseph J. Grano, Tamara and Kevin Kinsella, Pelican Group in association with Latitude Link and Rick Steiner.

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