Jersey Boys Cast Recording Certified Platinum

By Andrew Gans
06 Oct 2009

Jersey Boys Cast Recording Certified Platinum

The cast recording of the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Platinum status implies sales of over one million copies of the recording in the United States.

The single CD on the Rhino label also won the Grammy for Best Musical Show Album in 2006 and continues to land in the Top 25 of Billboard's Top Catalog Albums. In fact, this week the album is #1 on Billboard's Top Cast Albums Chart.

Produced by Bob Gaudio, an original member of The Four Seasons, the cast recording features the original Broadway company performing the group's biggest hits, including “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” “December 1963 (Oh What A Night),” “Walk Like A Man,” “Dawn (Go Away)” and more.

Jersey Boys, according to press notes, 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 30."

The creative team includes Tony-winning director Des McAnuff and choreographer Sergio Trujillo as well as Klara Zieglerova (scenic design), Jess Goldstein (costume design), Howell Binkley (lighting design), 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 and incidental music).

Jersey Boys arrived in November 2005 at Broadway's August Wilson Theatre. The Broadway production garnered four Tony Awards: for stars John Lloyd Young and Christian Hoff, lighting designer Howell Binkley and for Best Musical.

The award-winning production features music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe and a book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice.

For more information visit www.JerseyBoysInfo.com.