JERSEY BOYS
FABULOUS IN FORT LAUDERDALE
The Ft. Lauderdale engagement of JERSEY BOYS opened to rave reviews on Friday night, April 10 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, where it will play through May 3, 2009. From there, the national tour will play Orlando from May 6 through May 24, 2009.
MIAMI HERALD
“‘Jersey Boys’ is solid gold both musically and theatrically. Broadway’s best musical of 2006 has finally pulled into the Broward Center for the Performing Arts for a month-long run as the hottest ticket in town. If you’re a fan of the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli, ’60s pop-rock or ingeniously crafted, crazily entertaining Broadway musicals, ‘Jersey Boys’ is just the ticket. Artfully structured by director Des McAnuff and book writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, ‘Jersey Boys’ just explodes, becoming a hybrid of Broadway musical and thrilling concert. The avalanche of great tunes, many performed with the guys wearing co-ordinated stage outfits and doing tightly choreographed moves as they play and sing, serve as a vivid reminder of just why the Four Seasons made it to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Gaudio and Crewe created a heck of a catalog. Gaudio’s music, as orchestrated by Steve Orich, sounds authentic enough as the talented ‘Jersey Boys’ touring company sends it out to a crowd that raucously cheers it. ‘Jersey Boys,’ with a score that has both nostalgic power and the ability to move you in the moment, deftly mines the mythical elements in the story of four guys who fought for success and found that fame wasn’t the end of the road. ‘Jersey Boys’ is something to treasure. Click here to read the entire review: http://www.miamiherald.com/living/story/994194.html
SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
“‘Jersey Boys’ delivers. It has the requisite familiar-as-family songbook — this one the infectious chart-toppers by tunesmith Bob Gaudio and lyricist Bob Crewe. Even with the flurry onstage, what the company gets right is that catch in the voice, the heartbreak even when singing sunny songs. It doesn’t exist in the Top 40 today. It’s take a little of the froth out of the score and leaves plenty of fizz. The Tony-winning musical is a handsome package of hip-swerving choreography, sharkskin suits and an amorphous set that is a bowling alley one moment and the set of “American Bandstand” the next. Remarkably cinematic; there are close-ups, montages, backstage perspectives, silhouettes, pop art projections, live video all crisply unfolding like a multimedia scrap album. Ed Sullivan is channeled. Twice. But all that couldn’t hold out attention for even a “Short Shorts” moment if not for the cast at the top of their vocal game – harmonies so tight they just may be soldered. You can see triumph in their eyes as they occasionally deflect the audience’s thunderous applause – our applause – turning it into something for their characters to play off of, their reaction pulling us into the show craftily, slickly, completely. We can’t hold back. We react with everything we’ve got.” Click here to read the entire review: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/sfl-jersey-boys-musical-041209,0,855649.story
THE EDGE
“On stage, an amazingly diverse cast brings the rags-to-riches story to life under the artful direction of Des McAnuff, with a book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice, and stylistically perfect choreography by Sergio Trujillo. ‘Jersey Boys’ is an energetic production with a nostalgic look at a time in music history where the dreams of four young men really did come true. The result is electrifying. Click here to read the entire review: http://www.edgeftlauderdale.com/index.php?ch=entertainment&sc=theatre&sc2=reviews&sc3=&id=89614
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BROADWAYWORLD.COM
“‘Jersey Boys’ caused me to have chills in places that I never knew I could have chills before. This musical is a champion from the top to the final curtain call. ‘Jersey Boys’ packs wallops on many levels and it keeps ‘letting the audience have it.’ The Tony-winning Best Musical, simply gets everything right. Perhaps the most fascinating achievement is how beautifully the book works. Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice have pulled off quite a feat here. The book is compelling, and witty and never fails to be a perfect element in framing the next sensational number to take place. The technical creatives have simply outdone most shows of the past. From the sets and costumes, to the lighting, projections, sound design and other theatrical wizardry, ‘Jersey Boys’ contains what may be the most inspired and electric theatrical razzle dazzle since ‘Dreamgirls.’ Fresh and fantastic, this is a musical that will be loved by millions for a long time to come. Congratulations to all on this extraordinary achievement. Click here to read the entire review:
http://florida.broadwayworld.com/article/Jersey_Boys_An_Electric_Powerhouse_Of_Thrills_20090411
The cast of JERSEY BOYS is lead 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 Christopher DeAngelis, Graham Fenton, John Gardiner, Buck Hujabre, Leo Huppert, Michelle Knight, Renée Marino, Brandon Matthieus, Denise Payne, Nathan Scherich, Brian Silverman, Courter Simmons, Ryan Strand, Kara Tremel, Katie Tomlinson 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 six current productions of JERSEY BOYS: New York, London, Chicago, Las Vegas, Toronto, a US National tour, and a seventh production will open in Melbourne, Australia in July, 2009.
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 JERSEY BOYS design and production team comprises Klara Zieglerova (Scenic Design), Jess Goldstein (Costume Design), Howell Binkley (winner of the 2006 Tony Award® for his Lighting Design of JERSEY BOYS), Steve Canyon Kennedy (Sound Design), Michael Clark (Projections Design), Charles LaPointe (Wig and Hair Design), Steve Orich (Orchestrations) and Ron Melrose (Music Direction, Vocal Arrangements & Incidental Music).
The Original Broadway Cast Recording of JERSEY BOYS was produced by Bob Gaudio, and was recently certified Gold 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.
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