Quinn VanAntwerp returns to Jersey Boys from 23 Sep

The Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys welcomes Quinn VanAntwerp back into the fold as Bob Gaudio from 23 September 2014. He takes over the role from Drew Gehling, who will play his last performance on 21 September at the August Wilson Theatre.

Mr VanAntwerp made his Broadway debut in Jersey Boys in 2011, having already been in the Toronto cast, as well as the National Tour company for three years. He has also appeared off-Broadway in 'That Other Woman's Child' and 'Take Me America'.

The current cast of Jersey Boys includes Ryan Molloy (Frankie Valli), Matt Bogart (Nick Massi), Drew Gehling (Bob Gaudio), Richard H. Blake (Tommy DeVito), Peter Gregus (Bob Crewe), and Mark Lotito (Gyp DeCarlo), with Miles Aubrey, Erik Bates, Candi Boyd, Jared Bradshaw, Joseph Leo Bwarie, Cara Cooper, Ken Dow, John Edwards, Christopher Messina, Katie O'Toole, Joe Payne, Mauricio Pérez, Nathan Scherich, Sara Schmidt, and Kirsten Scott. (Nick Cosgrove plays 'Frankie Valli' at Wednesday and Saturday matinees).

Jersey Boys originally opened on 6 November 2005, following previews from 4 October, and is currently booking through to 23 August 2015.

Jersey Boys is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi, about a group of blue-collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks who 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 musical opened to excellent reviews: "Still dynamically alive in music while, as a drama, it catches the very texture, almost the actual smell, of its time." (New York Post); There's no point in beating around the bush — I had a great time." (New York Daily News); "A hot new Broadway show." (Star-Ledger); "It's basically a nostalgic evening—but a thoroughly enjoyable one." (newyorktheatreguide.com)

Winner of the 2006 Best Musical Tony Award about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Jersey Boys is written by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, and is directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Des McAnuff, choreographed by Sergio Trujillo, with Orchestrations by Steve Orich and Music Direction, Vocal Arrangements and Incidental Music by Ron Melrose.

Jersey Boys is produced on Broadway by Dodger Theatricals, Joseph J. Grano, Tamara and Kevin Kinsella, Pelican Group, in association with Latitude Link and Rick Steiner/Oshen/Staton/Bell/Mayerson Group.

- by Tom Millward