Shows · Jersey Boys
Jersey Boys
Opened 2005
4,642 performances
Musical, Modern
Tony Award for Best Musical, 2006
Jersey Boys premiered in La Jolla, California in October 2004. With the large catalogue of popular 60s pop group the Four Season songs as its foundation, Jersey Boys was a jukebox musical. Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice’s book crafted a take on the behind-the-scenes and origins of a band. Talented young men playing weddings and lounges and getting mixed up with the Mob, persevering through the wilderness and then a big break, and then more clashes and conflicts were all played out to the sounds “Sherry,” “Walk Like a Man,” “Rag Doll,” and other familiar tunes. Once again Des McAnuf’s directorial command was all over the stage keeping this show-business documentary saga moving across decades and also providing concert-style performance interludes. John Lloyd Young as Frankie Valli and Christian Hoff and Daniel Reichard as other band mates were all greatly talented and appealing. While still on Broadway, a national US tour was sent out, and it opened in London in 2008. Jersey Boys. From left to right, J. Robert Spencer, John Lloyd Young, Daniel Reichard, and Christian Hoff. (Joan Marcus)
"JERSEY BOYS The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons": the show's own period marketing line.
- Music
- Bob Gaudio
- Lyrics
- Bob Crewe
- Book
- Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice
Productions2 productions: 1 on Broadway, 1 in the West End
Songs19 songs
Oh What a Night, Silhouettes, You’re the Apple of My Eye, I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Earth Angel, Sunday Kind of Love, My Mother’s Eyes, I Go Ape, Short Shorts, I’m in the Mood for Love/ Moody’s Mood for Love, Cry for Me, An Angel Cried, I Still Care, Trance, Sherry, Big Girls Don’t Cry, Walk Like a Man, My Boyfriend’s Back, My Eyes Adored You
Recordings 4 recordings
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Theatrical Rights Worldwide | not stated by this source |
John Lloyd Young as Frankie Valli and Christian Hoff and Daniel Reichard as other band mates were all greatly talented and appealing.
Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 324Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.