Tony-Winning Musical Jersey Boys Becomes 14th Longest-Running Broadway Show | Playbill

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News Tony-Winning Musical Jersey Boys Becomes 14th Longest-Running Broadway Show As of the 7 PM Jan. 14 performance, the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical Jersey Boys will become the 14th longest-running show in Broadway history, surpassing Grease, with 3,389 performances.

Jersey Boys opened on Broadway Nov. 6, 2005, at the August Wilson Theatre, where it still plays. The show has been seen by over 18 million people worldwide (as of July 2013) and is currently playing in New York; Las Vegas; London; in cities across the U.S. on a national tour, The Netherlands and Seoul, South Korea.

As previously reported, Clint Eastwood is directing an upcoming film adaptation of the hit show, which is due out in June.

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The Broadway company stars Matt Bogart (Nick Massi), Drew Gehling (Bob Gaudio) and Richard H. Blake (Tommy DeVito) and Dominic Scaglione, Jr. (Frankie Valli) with Peter Gregus and Mark Lotito, and Miles Aubrey, Erik Bates, Candi Boyd, Jared Bradshaw, Joseph Leo Bwarie, Ken Dow, Russell Fischer, John Edwards, Katie O'Toole, Mauricio Perez, Joe Payne, Nathan Scherich, Sara Schmidt and Katie Webber.

Jersey Boys is written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe. Two-time Tony Award-winner Des McAnuff directs with choreography by Sergio Trujillo. The musical, according to press notes, "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."

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