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The 2006 Best Musical Tony® Award winning sensation JERSEY BOYS, The story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, opened to critical and popular acclaim at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway on November 6, 2005 (previews began October 4, 2005). JERSEY BOYS is written by Academy Award-winner Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, and is directed by two-time Tony® Award-winner Des McAnuff and choreographed by Sergio Trujillo.
§ JERSEY BOYS on Broadway has received the following awards:
4 Tony Awards® including Best Musical
2 Outer Critics Circle Awards including Best Musical
2 Drama League Awards including Best Musical, and the Julia Hansen Award for Excellence in Directing for Des McAnuff
§ JERSEY BOYS Original Cast Recording received a 2006 Grammy Award® for Best Musical Show Album. The album has remained in the Top Three of Billboard’s Broadway Albums Chart every week since it went on sale in 2005. The Cast Recording has been certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
§ JERSEY BOYS is always among the top 3 weekly grossing shows on Broadway, even with one of the lower seating capacities for a musical theater.
§ JERSEY BOYS has been the hottest ticket on Broadway since it opened, maintaining the highest average ticket price of any show for the last three years.
• JERSEY BOYS has been seen by over 8.9 million people across the world and grossed over
$812 million worldwide (as of January 17, 2010).
§ JERSEY BOYS has set the August Wilson Theatre box office record 30 times.
§ JERSEY BOYS in San Francisco broke the Curran Theatre box office record previously held by The Phantom of the Opera, and went on to break their own record once more during the run.
§ JERSEY BOYS, which closed in San Francisco, CA after a successful engagement, returned to the Curran Theatre for a special holiday engagement from November 20 to December 30, 2007. This engagement of JERSEY BOYS won the San Francisco Bay Theater Critics Circle Award for Best Touring Production. The Mayors Office of San Francisco proclaimed Monday, September 24, 2007 as JERSEY BOYS DAY in San Francisco in honor of the good works and the cultural life that JERSEY BOYS helps to bring to San Francisco.
§ JERSEY BOYS in Los Angeles, CA broke the Ahmanson Theatre box office record previously held by Bas Luhrman’s La Boheme in 2004, and went on to break their own record another 4 times. JERSEY BOYS in Los Angeles won two BackStage West Garland Awards, including Christopher Kale Jones for Lead Performance and Ron Melrose for Music Direction. JERSEY BOYS received the 2007 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Best Touring Production.
§ JERSEY BOYS in San Diego won the 2007 San Diego Theatre Critics Circle’s Craig Noel Award for Best Touring Production.
§ JERSEY BOYS in Sacramento, CA broke the Community Center Theater box office record that was previously held by The Lion King in 2005.
§ JERSEY BOYS in Tempe, AZ broke the Gammage Theatre box office record that was previously held by The Phantom of the Opera in 2005.
§ JERSEY BOYS in Costa Mesa, CA broke the OPAC box office record that was previously held by Wicked.
§ JERSEY BOYS in Seattle, WA broke the 5th Avenue Theatre box office record that was previously held by West Side Story, and went on to break it 4 more times.
§ JERSEY BOYS’ National Tour raised $327,404.00, the most money of any Broadway or Touring production in the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS’s 2007 Gypsy of the Year competition and raised $236,844.00, the most money of any Broadway or Touring production in the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS 2007 Easter Bonnet competition.
§ JERSEY BOYS in Tampa, FL broke the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center box office record that was previously held by Wicked and went on to break it four more times. JERSEY BOYS also set a new attendance record for Carol Morsani Hall.
§ JERSEY BOYS in Minneapolis, MN broke the Orpheum Theater box office record twice.
§ JERSEY BOYS in St. Louis, MO celebrated the Tour’s highest-grossing week to date.
§ JERSEY BOYS in Cleveland, OH broke the Playhouse Square Theatre's box office record that was previously held by Wicked and went on to set a worldwide production box office record, shattering all records set by the production in New York, Chicago, Las Vegas, London and other tour cities.
§ JERSEY BOYS in Denver, CO broke the box office record for a touring Broadway show at the Buell Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex and went on to set a new worldwide production box office record.
• JERSEY BOYS in Harford, CT broke the Bushnell Theatre’s box office record that was
previously held by Wicked and went on to break its own record.
• JERSEY BOYS in Fort Lauderdale broke the Broward Center for the Performing Arts’ box office
record that was previously held by Wicked.
• JERSEY BOYS in Boston broke the Shubert Theatre’s box office record that was previously held by
Riverdance.
• JERSEY BOYS in Washington, DC broke the National Theatre’s box office record that was
previously held by Spamalot and went on to break its own record three more times.
· JERSEY BOYS in Fort Myers, FL broke the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall’s box office
record that was previously held by Wicked and went on to break its own record.
§ JERSEY BOYS in Chicago, IL broke the LaSalle Bank Theatre box office record that was previously held by the world-premiere of Monty Python’s Spamalot in 2005, and went on to break their own record another 3 times. The Chicago Company raised $255,000.00, the most money of any Touring production for the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS 2008 Easter Bonnet competition; and raised $293,673.00, the second highest amount of any Touring production, for the BC/EFA 2008 Gypsy of the Year competition. They also raised $30,000.00 for the AIDS walk in San Francisco. On February 27, 2008, JERSEY BOYS announced its Chicago engagement as open-ended.
• JERSEY BOYS opened to rave reviews in London’s West End on March 18, 2008 at the Prince
Edward Theatre (previews began February 28) and won the Olivier Award, UK People’s Choice
Award, and the What’s on Stage Award for Best New Musical.
§ JERSEY BOYS opened to rave reviews at brand-new built-to-suit theatre at the Palazzo Hotel and Resort on May 3, 2008 (previews began April 4). The Las Vegas Review-Journal rated it the “Number 1 Best Show in Las Vegas for 2008”.
§ JERSEY BOYS in Toronto, Canada announced an open-ended run on October 27, 2008 at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. The production went on to win three 2009 Dora Awards and the coveted Audience Choice Award.
§ JERSEY BOYS opened to rave reviews in Melbourne, Australia, on July 4, 2009 and went on to break the box office record twice.
§ JERSEY BOYS Chicago closed on January 10, 2010, after playing 951 performances to over 1.3 million people.
§ JERSEY BOYS is the first time the behind-the-scenes story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons has ever been told.
§ JERSEY BOYS features 20 Four Seasons songs, including “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” and “Oh, What a Night.”
• The official behind-the-scenes companion book, JERSEY BOYS: The Story of Frankie
Valli & The Four Seasons, was released by Broadway Books on October 16, 2007.
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