Jersey Boys
Shows · Jersey Boys
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…
- Opened
- 2005
- Performances
- 4,642
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Modern
Won the Tony Award for Best Musical, 2006.
Productions2 on Broadway
| 2005 | August Wilson Theatre Original. November 6, 2005 · Des McAnuff | 4,642 performances · 1 Tony wins |
| 2021 | Trafalgar Theatre Transfer. |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 4 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Theatrical Rights Worldwide | not stated by this source |
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32 passages naming Jersey Boys, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
The Boy from Oz (2003), Peter Allen; Jersey Boys (2005), Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p679
Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons (2005; as of this writing, still running) is an example of a musical that utilized songs popularized but not necessarily written by a singer or singing group. book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p228
First Runner-up: Jersey Boys — Sherry Tour ($142,434) book:theatre-world-2009-2010-season-v-66-willis#p122
Jersey Boys* 1,881 performances Opened November 6, 2006 book:theatre-world-2009-2010-season-v-66-willis#p454
Jersey Boys* 2,714 performances Opened November 6, 2006 book:theatre-world-2011-12-season-v-68-willis#p454
Jersey Boys , a well-received show built around the music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p325
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