Jersey Boys Chicago

Due to overwhelming demand, Broadway In Chicago and TheatreDreams announced Broadway’s Tony Award-winning Best Musical Jersey Boys will add an additional 14 weeks of performances, extending its Chicago engagement to six months.  Edward Strong, a partner in Dodger Theatricals, the lead producer of Jersey Boys said, “We hope to be here for as long as the Chicago public demands.”  Tickets for the new block of performances, January 8 through April 13, 2008, will go on sale Monday, April 9, 2007 at 8 am.  Tickets are currently on sale for performances October 6, 2007 through January 6, 2008 at Chicago’s LaSalle Bank Theatre (18 W. Monroe St.).

Directed by two-time Tony® Award-winner Des McAnuff, Jersey Boys won four 2006 Tony®  Awards including Best Musical and continues to break box office records at the August Wilson Theatre since opening in November 2005.  Jersey Boys is written by Academy Award-winner Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe and choreography by Sergio Trujillo.

Jersey Boys is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi.  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.

Casting for the Chicago premiere of Jersey Boys will be announced at a later date.

The Jersey Boys design and production team comprises Klara Zieglerova (Scenic Design), Jess Goldstein (Costume Design), Howell Binkley (winner of the 2006 Tony® Award for his Lighting Design of Jersey Boys ), 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 & Incidental Music).

A new block of tickets for performances January 8 through April 13, 2008 will go on sale Monday, April 9 at 8 am.  Tickets are currently on sale for performances October 6, 2007 through January 6, 2008.  Tickets for Jersey Boys range in price from $30 - $95 and are available at Broadway In Chicago Box Offices (18 W. Monroe, 24 W. Randolph St. and 151 W. Randolph St.), through the Broadway In Chicago Ticket Line at (312) 902-1400, at all Ticketmaster ticket centers (including Carson Pirie Scott stores, Hot Tix, select Coconuts and fye stores) or online at ticketmaster.com.  Groups of 20 or more can receive a discount by calling (312) 977-1710.  For more information, go to www.BroadwayInChicago.com.