Tony, Grammy and
Olivier Award WINNING
BEST MUSICAL
JERSEY BOYS
DIRECTED BY DES McANUFF
PLAYING PHILADELPHIA’S
FORREST THEATRE
SEPT. 30 – DEC. 12
PHILADELPHIA,
PA (August 24, 2010) – Casting has been announced for the Philadelphia
engagement of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award winning hit musical JERSEY BOYS, the story ofFrankie Valli
and The Four Seasons, playing the Forrest Theatre Sept. 30 – Dec.
12. The cast of JERSEY BOYS will be led by Matt Bailey (Tommy
DeVito), Joseph Leo
Bwarie (Frankie Valli), Steve Gouveia (Nick Massi), and Quinn VanAntwerp (Bob Gaudio) as The Four Seasons, with
Jonathan Hadley and Joseph Siravo. The official press opening is Sat. Oct. 2
at 8:00 pm.
Tickets for JERSEY BOYS
begin at $52.50 and are
available by calling 800-447-7400 or online at www.telecharge.com. Tickets are also available
at the Forrest Theatre box office (1114
Walnut St) beginning August 23. Premium Seats are
also available for all performances. Groups of 20 or more call 866-276-2947 or
215-790-5883. For more information, please visit, www.forrest-theatre.com,www.kimmelcenter.org
or www.JerseyBoysInfo.com.
The performance schedule is:
Tuesday through Thursday evenings at 7:30 pm; Friday & Saturday evenings at
8:00 pm; Sunday evenings at 6:30 pm;matinees Saturdays at 2:00 pm & Sundays at 1:00 pm, and weekday
matinees on Oct. 6 , Nov. 26 and Dec. 8 at 2:00 pm.An additional evening performance is
scheduled for Nov. 22 at 7:30 pm.
There will be no performances on Thurs. Nov. 25,Thanksgiving Day.Also, no performances are scheduled for
Sunday evenings Nov. 28 & Dec. 12.
The
ensemble of JERSEY BOYS includes Candi Boyd, Jared Bradshaw, Christopher
DeAngelis, John Michael Dias, John Edwards, Philadelphia native Alayna Gallo, John
Gardiner, Buck Hujabre, Denise Payne, Brian Silverman, Courter Simmons, Ryan
Strand, Lauren Tartaglia, Kara Tremel, Mark Verdino and Kevin Worley.
JERSEY BOYS is the winner of the 2006 Best
Musical Tony Award®, the 2006 Grammy Award® for Best Musical Show Album, and
most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical.
Catch a sneak peek of Jersey
Boys! Log on to JerseyBoysInfo.com/watch
Directed
by two-time Tony® Award-winner Des
McAnuff, 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.
JERSEY BOYS opened at the AugustWilsonTheatre on Broadway to
critical acclaim on November
6, 2005. The JERSEY BOYS
National Tour opened to rave reviews in San Francisco
on December 1, 2006,
played a record-breaking run in Los Angeles and
is still breaking house records in cities across North
America. There are six current productions of JERSEY BOYS: New York, London, Las Vegas, Toronto, Sydney, Australia, and a
US National tour.
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.
The Original Broadway Cast
Recording of JERSEY BOYS, produced
by Bob Gaudio, was recently certified Platinum by the Recording Industry
Association of America. The cast recording is now available on Rhino
Records.JERSEY
BOYS: The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons (Broadway Books) is
the official handbook to the smash Broadway hit.
JERSEY BOYS is part of the 2010 – 2011 Broadway
Season presented by The Kimmel Center and The Shubert Organization,
with productions at the Academy
of Music, Forrest Theatre
and Merriam Theater.For additional
information on the Broadway Season and subscription packages visit
MATT BAILEY (Tommy DeVito)Originally from Northern
California, he has appeared in over 30 shows in 17 states. New York credits include The Most Happy Fella, Cinderella
(LincolnCenter), Ghostbrothers of Darkland
County (with John Mellencamp & Stephen King), Mental (Cherry Lane), Night
of the Hunter. Regional favorites: Edward II, The Full Monty,
Bat Boy, Musical of Musicals (Kevin Kline nom.), Hamlet, Jacques Brel…, the Muny, Williamstown
Theatre Festival. For more visit www.mattbailey.info.
JOSEPH LEO BWARIE (Frankie Valli) opened Jersey BoysLas Vegas before hitting the open road.
Favorites from his early years: Highway
to Heaven, Mama’s Family, The Addams Family, Radio Flyer, Batman Returns, seaQuest DSV. He’s performed on the Academy Awards, the Tony Awards and originated ‘Chachi’ in Happy Days: A New Musical. A member of LA’s award-winning
Troubadour Theater Co, he also co-wrote/directed a series of original musicals
produced by Garry Marshall’s Falcon Theatre. Recent Film/TV: The Princess Diaries 2, Race to Witch Mountain as ‘Frankie
Valet,’ and Valentine’s Day.EmersonCollege graduate.
STEVE GOUVEIA
(Nick Massi) is from the original
Broadway cast of Jersey Boys. He can
also be heard on the original cast recording (2006 Grammy Award). Regional: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (La Jolla Playhouse, dir. Des McAnuff), Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and Hair.As a musician/singer/songwriter, Steve has worked with members of The
Doors, Manfred Mann, Porcupine Tree, Icehouse, Frankie Valli and the Four
Seasons, and many others. His new solo album Shine is available at www.cdbaby.com and on iTunes.For more info, check out
www.stevegouveia.com.
QUINN VANANTWERP (Bob Gaudio) justcompleted a two year run in the Toronto
Company of Jersey Boys. Quinn is a California native and graduate of the University of California,
Irvine. Off
Broadway: That Other Woman’s Child
(37 Arts), Take Me America (York
Theatre).Regional: Thoroughly Modern Millie (Musical Theatre West), The Haunting of Winchester
(San Jose Rep), Atlanta (Geffen Playhouse)
and South Pacific at the Hollywood Bowl with Brian Stokes Mitchell and Reba
McIntire. Film: Four Christmases.
Nominated for 2009 Dora Mayor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male
in a Principal Role for his performance in Jersey
Boys.
