UPDATE: This production is temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Stay tuned for more information.
After an impressive total of 4,642 performances on the Great White Way, the bio-musical sensation that is Jersey Boys returns to New York City to play an open-ended off-Broadway engagement at Stage 1 in New World Stages.
The Broadway production originally began previews on October 4, 2005, officially opening on November 6 and going on to be crowned the Tony Award-winning "Best Musical" at the 2006 ceremony. It played its final performance at the August Wilson Theatre on January 15, 2017.
Tickets are on sale now.
(Photos by Joan Marcus)
15 images Jersey Boys is the behind-the-music story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. They were just four guys from Jersey, until they sang their very first note. They had a sound nobody had ever heard… and the radio just couldn't get enough of. But while their harmonies were perfect on stage, off stage it was a very different story - a story that has made them an international sensation all over again. The show features all their hits including "Sherry", "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Oh What A Night", "Walk Like A Man", "Can’t Take My Eyes Off You", and "Working My Way Back To You".
OK. So, technically today's #QuaranTune was a pop song long before it became a show tune, but the message of "Who Loves You" — the closing number of the musical phenomenon that is Jersey Boys — is now brought to you by 15 past and present companies of the hit tuner from around the world. Watch the video below to see 275 cast members in a virtually collaboration in support of COVID-19 relief efforts!
NOTE: This is a review of the Broadway production of Jersey Boys. Sometimes a commercial artistic impulse and demography seem to merge in a way that guarantees success. I think we’ll be seeing an example of this phenomenon when the new musical Jersey Boys, about the lives and career of the pre-boomer pop group The Four Seasons, that just opened at the newly-named August Wilson Theater (... Read more
