JERSEY BOYS
WILL WELCOME BACK
QUINN VANANTWERP
TO THE CAST IN THE ROLE OF “BOB GAUDIO”
BEGINNING TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
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The producers of the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical JERSEY BOYS are pleased to announce that Quinn VanAntwerp will re-join the Broadway cast on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 in the role of “Bob Gaudio.” He assumes the role from Drew Gehling who departs the production following the Sunday, September 21st performance.
JERSEY BOYS is written by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, and is directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Des McAnuff and choreographed by Sergio Trujillo. The production is now playing on Broadway at the August Wilson Theatre (245 W. 52nd St). The production opened on Broadway on November 6, 2005 and has gone on to be seen by over 20 million people worldwide (as of August, 2014). JERSEY BOYS is currently playing in New York; Las Vegas; London; in cities across the U.S. on national tour; and in cities across the U.K. on national tour.
JERSEY BOYS 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. The show features all their hits including “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Oh What A Night,” “Walk Like A Man,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” and “Working My Way Back To You.”
The current Broadway company stars Richard H. Blake (Tommy DeVito), Matt Bogart (Nick Massi), Drew Gehling (Bob Gaudio), and Ryan Molloy (Frankie Valli) with Peter Gregus and Mark Lotito, and Miles Aubrey, Erik Bates, Candi Boyd, Jared Bradshaw, Joseph Leo Bwarie, Cara Cooper, Ken Dow, John Edwards, Christopher Messina, Katie O’Toole, Joe Payne, Mauricio Pérez, Nathan Scherich, Sara Schmidt, Kirsten Scott.
JERSEY BOYS is the recipient of the 2006 Tony Award for Best Musical and the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Musical. The Original Broadway Cast Recording, produced by Bob Gaudio, received the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and has been certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The Broadway production also won the 2006 Outer Critics Circle & Drama League Awards for Best Musical. The London production also won the 2009 UK People’s Choice and What’s on Stage Awards for Best New Musical. The Toronto production is the winner of three Dora Awards, including the Audience Choice Award for Outstanding Production. The Australian production is 2010 recipient of the Helpmann Award for Australia’s Best Musical and seven Victorian Green Room Awards.
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