PIX11’s "Curtain Up!" Broadway week series goes backstage with the stars of the Tony Award-winning hit musical Jersey Boys. Here, PIX 11 host Laurie Dhue visits the August Wilson Theatre for a tour of the venue and chats with the show’s stars, including Jarrod Spector, who plays Frankie Valli.
Dhue also tries on Jersey Boys costumes and checks out the projection design. In the Broadway week “Curtain Up!” series, PIX11 visits Broadway’s best for a glimpse of what goes on behind-the-scenes before the curtain rises at 8 PM. “Curtain Up!” recently visited the Palace to check out the action at Priscilla Queen of the Desert. To watch the clip, click here.
Jersey Boys is the winner of the 2006 Best Musical Tony Award, the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical and the 2010 Helpmann Award for Best Musical (Australia).
The musical is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. According to press notes, “This is the story 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.”
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Broadway in Bryant Park, the annual free concert series now in its 11th year, features performances from the stars of Broadway and Off-Broadway Thursdays throughout the summer from 12:30 PM-1:30 PM. The fifth concert of the series was held Aug. 4 with performances from Jersey Boys, The Lion King, Rent, Wicked and Death Takes a Holiday.
Sponsored by Bank of America and Clean Air NY, the event is hosted by 106.7 Lite fm’s on-air personalities and continues through Aug. 11.
The Aug. 4 performance featured “Circle of Life” from The Lion King; “Shimmy Like They Do In Paree” from Death Takes a Holiday; “Who Loves You” from Jersey Boys; “Take Me or Leave Me” from Rent; and “Popular” and “As Long as Your Mine” from Wicked, among others.
In case you missed the latest free concert in Bryant Park, Playbill.com has highlights from the performances and chats with the stars and audience members at the event.
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The stars of the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys, Jarrod Spector, Ryan Jesse, Matt Bogart and Dominic Nolfi, recently stopped by “Access Hollywood” to talk about performing on Broadway as The Four Seasons. The boys then offered a special performance of “Walk Like a Man.”
The musical is the winner of the 2006 Best Musical Tony Award, the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical and the 2010 Helpmann Award for Best Musical (Australia).
Jersey Boys is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. According to press notes, “This is the story 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 thirty.”
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The Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning hit musical Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, is celebrating its second year in Australia, where it plays Sydney’s Theatre Royal.
In honor of hitting the two-year mark, the cast of Jersey Boys visited “Sunrise,” Australia’s top morning show, to perform a medley of songs from the musical, including “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry” and “Walk Like a Man.”
The musical is the winner of the 2006 Best Musical Tony Award, the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical and the 2010 Helpmann Award for Best Musical (Australia).
Jersey Boys is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. According to press notes, “This is the story 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 thirty.”
To watch the cast perform a Jersey Boys medley, look below:
The fifth anniversary of Jersey Boys was commemorated in a very special way Nov. 7, when a section of West 52nd Street near the Tony-winning Four Seasons musical’s Broadway home at the August Wilson Theatre was renamed Jersey Boys Walk. Jersey Boys recently became the longest-running show in the theatre’s history.
Original Four Seasons members Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio were on hand for the ceremony, as were the show’s authors, Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, and members of the cast.
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