Celebrating More Than Two Years... As Jersey Boys counts down to its final performance in Chicago on January 10, 2010, the Chicago Company is grateful for the support and enthusiasm of Chicago audiences that have made such an extraordinary run possible. In celebration of over two years of performances, Jersey Boys thanks the City of Chicago and its residents throughout the month of October by:
- Honoring Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and the City of Chicago during a special curtain call following the October 27 performance
- Performing the National Anthem and a special rendition of "My Kind of Town" at the Chicago Bulls game on October 19
- Conducting Stage Side Chats on Tuesdays in October allowing audience members to ask questions about the performance and interact with the cast
- Having performed National Anthems at the AIDS Run/Walk and the Bank of America Chicago Marathon
- Having made a special guest appearance at ComedySportz Chicago during the League of Chicago Theaters' Free Month of Theater
- Having served as honorary grand marshals in the Columbus Day Parade
Oh, What A Run... From celebrity audience members, an appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," performing at the Tony Awards, hosting a lunch for fans with Frankie Valli himself and welcoming its one millionth patron, to participating in outdoor concerts, wine tastings, cabarets and fashion shows, Chicago's Jersey Boys has traversed Chicagoland for over two years, meeting, greeting and entertaining. Within the past two years, the Chicago Company of Jersey Boys has expanded its Chicago citizenship by:
- Performing National Anthems at the Chicago White Sox, Chicago Bears, Chicago Bulls and Chicago Bears games, the Chicago Air and Water Show and AIDS Run/Walk
- Performing at Arlington Park , Balmoral Park , the Chicago Blackhawks Annual Convention, the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau Annual Meeting of Membership, the League of Chicago Theater's Annual Gala, Looptopia and Monday Night Live at Petterino's
- Performing to over 20,000 people during Broadway In Chicago's Concert in the Park as part of Taste of Chicago in 2008 and 2009
- Participating in two Magnificent Mile Lights Festivals and the 2008 McDonald's Thanksgiving Day Parade
- Wowing passengers on a Chicago Architecture Foundation River Cruise in May 2008, kicking off the Museum of Science and Industry's Christmas Around the World exhibit in November 2008 and cooking a secret meatball recipe for museum goers in August 2009 at MSI
- Celebrating Heart Health Month with Jewel-Osco and Diet Coke in February 2009
- Visiting cancer patient Sherry Tomasello on March 27, 2009 fulfilling her wish to see Jersey Boys
- Welcoming Frankie Valli for a special "Lunch with Frankie" at Frankie's Italian on April 18, 2009
- Celebrating its one millionth patron, Carol Miller from Orland Park , on June 3, 2009
- Dominic Scaglione Jr. performing a medley with "Frankies" from other Jersey Boys companies at the Tony Awards on June 7, 2009
- Being welcomed by Oprah Winfrey herself and performing on a special 60s-inspired episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on September 21, 2009
- Welcoming celebrities such as Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Heather Graham, Jerry O'Connell, John Corbett, Stedman Graham, Dennis DeYoung, Sara Ramirez, Luis Guzman, Tim Kazurinsky, Ides of March, Rocky Wirtz, The Drifters, Chicago Cubs' Mike Fontenot and Sean Marshall and Chicago Blackhawks' Adam Burish, Adam Johnson, Joel Quenneville and Patrick Sharp.
Jersey Boys premiered in Chicago as a limited engagement in October 2007. After opening to rave reviews, adding additional performance weeks and setting four new box office records, Jersey Boys became a resident production at the Bank of America Theatre in February 2008. After a record breaking run, the Chicago company of Jersey Boys will take a final bow after 951 performances at the Bank of America Theatre on Sunday, January 10, 2010.
Jersey Boys tells the story of FrankieValli andThe 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.
Jersey Boys stars Michael Cunio as Tommy DeVito, Chicagoan Michael Ingersoll as Nick Massi, Dominic Scaglione Jr. as Frankie Valli, and Shonn Wiley as Bob Gaudio, with Kevin Crewell and Chicagoan Jonathan Weir . The ensemble of Jersey Boys includes Mackenzie Bell, Jared Bradshaw, John Michael Coppola, John Michael Dias, Mike Erickson, Alayna Gallo, Steven M. Goldsmith, Eric Gutman, Merissa Haddad, Tara Macri, Kraig McCreary, Rashad Naylor, Timothy Quinlan, Ryan Quinn West and Chuck Webb.
Directed by two-time Tony Award - winner Des McAnuff , Jersey Boys won both the 2006 Tony Award for Best Musical and the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Recording, and most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, and continues to break box office records on Broadway and in Chicago. 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 .
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).
Jersey Boys is produced by Dodger Theatricals, Joseph J. Grano, Tamara and Kevin Kinsella, Pelican Group with Latitude Link and Rick Steiner and is presented in Chicago by Broadway in Chicago and TheatreDreams .
The performance schedule is as follows: Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m.; Wednesdays at 2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.; Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.; Fridays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.; and Sundays at 2 p.m.
Tickets for the final block of performances through January 10, 2010, are on sale now and range in price from $30 - $110. A select number of premium seats are also available. Tickets are available at all Broadway In Chicago Box Offices (24 W. Randolph St., 151 W. Randolph St. and 18 W. Monroe St.); the Broadway In Chicago Ticket Line at (800) 775-2000; all Ticketmaster retail locations (including Hot Tix and select Carson Pirie Scott, Coconuts and fye stores); and online at www.BroadwayInChicago.com. Groups of 15 or more should call (312) 977-1710.
Rush tickets ($25) go on-sale at 10 a.m. (11 a.m. on Sundays) the day of each performance. Ten (10) front row seats are available at the Bank of America Theatre Box Office (18 W. Monroe St.) only. As many as forty (40) additional seats, subject to availability at select performances, are made available online at Ticketmaster.com and at the Bank of America Theatre Box Office. Rush ticket limit is two (2) tickets per patron and all seats are limited view.