Jersey Boys (Musical)

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Jersey boys
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Title: Jersey boys
Original language: English
Music: Bob Gaudio
Book: Marshall Brickman
Rick Elice
Lyrics: Bob Crewe
Premiere: October 5, 2004
Place of premiere: La Jolla Playhouse , University of California, San Diego
Place and time of the action: United States , 1960s
Roles / people

Jersey Boys is a jukebox musical . The music was written by Bob Gaudio , the lyrics by Bob Crewe , and the book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. The emergence, success and dissolution of the rock 'n' roll group The Four Seasons are presented in a documentary style . The title refers to New Jersey , the origin of the band members. The musical is divided into the four seasons, each narrated by a different group member, each showing its own perspective on the story and the music. Songs used include Big Girls Don't Cry , Sherry , December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) , My Eyes Adored You , Stay , Can't Take My Eyes Off You , Working My Way Back to You and Rag Doll . Jersey Boys premiered on Broadway in 2005 and has since played in London's West End , Las Vegas, Chicago, Toronto, Melbourne, Singapore, South Africa and the Netherlands. In 2006 Jersey Boys won four Tony Awards , including Best Musical, and the 2009 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical.

Emergence

Starting in 2000, Bob Gaudio , a member of The Four Seasons , tried to write a musical from the group's songs. He hired the book authors Rick Elice and Marshall Brickman and Des McAnuff as directors. Brickman suggested retelling the band's story instead of using the songs for a new story. Brickman was brought in on the project because "it's a classic American story: from dishwasher to millionaire and back again." Little was known to the public about the band's history as the magazines wrote little about it at the time. Brickman and Elice also used material from interviews with band members Frankie Valli and Tommy DeVito . Brickman noticed that each member of the band had their own view of what was going on during the active time of the group. Eventually they trusted DeVito, who said, “Don't listen to the boys. I'll tell you what really happened. ”For Elice, this was an aha experience, and the contradictions in her narratives due to selective perception led to the presentation of the story from four perspectives. The authors also contacted family members of Mafia boss Gyp DeCarlo to ensure their account was correct. Although Gaudio was one of the original developers of the musical, he was not involved in the creative process during rehearsals and only joined the ensemble at the premiere. Gaudio, Valli, and DeVito had chosen to retire from musical development because they weren't objective, and they left Brickman, Elice, and McAnuff to bring the story to the stage. However, they retained the right to terminate the project if they did not like it.

Productions

Jersey Boys premiered on October 5, 2004 at the La Jolla Playhouse at the University of California, San Diego , and ran until January 16, 2005. Christian Hoff , David Norona , Daniel Reichard and J. Robert Spencer played The Four Seasons . Towards the end of the season, Norona, who played Frankie Valli, was replaced by John Lloyd Young , who originally auditioned for the role of Tommy DeVito. On Broadway Previews began on 4 October 2005, the official opening was on November 6, 2005. actors were John Lloyd Young as Frankie Valli, Christian Hoff as Tommy DeVito, Daniel Reichard as Bob Gaudio and J. Robert Spencer as Nick Massi . The musical is directed by Des McAnuff, who was artistic director at the La Jolla Playhouse, and the choreography is by Sergio Trujillo . The Broadway production had 38 previews and is still running. On April 9, 2014, it reached its 3,487th performance, making it 13th among the longest running browadway productions. Notable line-up changes include Andy Karl as Tommy DeVito and Sebastian Arcelus as Bob Gaudio. The first tour of the United States began on December 10, 2006 at the Curran Theater in San Francisco and went to 38 other cities. The last performance was at the Forrest Theater in Philadelphia , where the box office record was broken eight times before the tour returned to Boston for a replay. While the first tour was running, a second company debuted in Curran and has continued at Chicago's Bank of America Theater since October 5, 2007 .

Jersey Boys celebrated its West End premiere in London at the Prince Edward Theater . The creative team was the same that produced the musical on Broadway. The leading actors were Ryan Molloy as Frankie Valli, Stephen Ashfield as Bob Gaudio, Glenn Carter as Tommy DeVito, Philip Bulcock as Nick Massi, Stuart Milligan as DeCarlo and Tom Lorcan as Donnie / Knuckles. The production won the Laurence Olivier Award for "Best New Musical". Molloy played the lead role for six years, making it the longest role in a West End musical. On March 15, 2014 the production moved to the Piccadilly Theater , on the same day John Lloyd Young took over the role of Frankie Valli.

The Australian production started on July 4th, 2009 at the Princess Theater in Melbourne . The main actors were Bobby Fox as Frankie Valli, Stephen Mahy as Bob Gaudio, Scott Johnson as Tommy DeVito and Glaston Toft as Nick Massi. The Melbourne production ran until July 25, 2010, in September 2010 the production started in Sydney with the same main cast. After the end of the performances in Sydney on December 18, 2011, the show started in April 2012 in Auckland and ran there until June 17, 2012.

Following the success of the US tour in the fall of 2008, a production started in Toronto, Ontario on December 12, 2008 with a new, mostly Canadian cast, including Jeremy Kushnier and Jenny Lee Stern from the first tour. This production ended on August 22, 2010, its second anniversary.

A tour with a South African cast ran from November 23, 2012 to January 27, 2013 at the Marina Bay Sands Resort in Singapore. This production then played on April 3, 2013 in Johannesburg in the Teatro Montecasino and in Cape Town in the Artscape on June 19, 2013. This production also appeared on November 13 and 14, 2013 in Istanbul at the Zorlu Center Performing Arts Center and in South Korea from January 17 to March 23, 2014. A more family-friendly, profanity-free version was shown at Istana Budaya , Malaysia from April 15 to 27, 2014 .

In the Dutch production of Stage Entertainment , which started on September 22, 2013 in the Beatrix Theater in Utrecht , the songs were presented in English and the dialogues in Dutch. It was the first production in a non-English language. The main actors were Tim Driesen as Frankie Valli, René van Kooten as Tommy DeVito, Dieter Spileers as Bob Gaudio and Robbert van den Bergh as Nick Massi.

In autumn 2014 there was a UK tour, which started from September 4th to October 4th 2014 at the Palace Theater, Manchester. Other venues include the Edinburgh Playhouse ( Edinburgh ), Regent Theater ( Stoke ), Hull New Theater ( Hull ), Sunderland Empire Theater ( Sunderland ) and New Alexandra Theater ( Birmingham ) This tour has the same creative team as the Broadway and West End Production.

content

1st act

spring

Ces soirées-là , a modern rap song from 2000, will be heard. Tommy DeVito appears, introduces himself, and explains that the song is a December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) cover versionof the Four Seasons . He offers to tell the story of the band, how it started with The Variety Trio with his brother Nick DeVito and his friend Nick Massi. He discovered the teenager Frankie Castelluccio, took him under his wing and taught him everything he knew (The Early Years: A Scrapbook) . During those first years Nick Massi practiced singing with Frankie, Tommy went to jail and out, Frankie changed his last name to Valli, Tommy and Frankie developed a good relationship with Mafia boss Gyp DeCarlo and Frankie fell in love with Mary Delgado and married her. Musically, the band was still experimenting and they changed their name and sound, but to no great success. One day friend and Jersey boy Joe Pesci comesto Tommy and tells him that he knows a singer and songwriter who is the perfect fourth man for the band: Bob Gaudio.

summer

Bob Gaudio takes on the narrative role and explains to the audience that it doesn't matter what Tommy would have said. He is not a stranger because he has already released the hit single Short Shorts . He listens to the band with Joe Pesci and is immediately impressed by Frankie's voice. Bob plays the song he has just written, Cry for Me, on the piano, Frankie, Nick Massi and finally Tommy join in with vocals, bass and guitar. Although Tommy is initially skeptical, they negotiate a contract that Bobby, even though he is still a teenager, will join the band. The band gets a contract from producer Bob Crewe , but only as a back-up band (backup sessions) . Crewe believes the band is having an identity crisis and calls for a final decision on the band name and sound. The band is called Four Seasons after the bowling alley , and Bob writes the three songs that eventually make them stars: Sherry , Big Girls Don't Cry and Walk Like a Man . In the course of her success, Bob also had a personal experience of losing his virginity ( December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) ) . The band success means more appearances, and on their tour they discover the girl band The Angels ( My Boyfriend's Back ) . Unfortunately, touring life puts a strain on Frankie and Mary's marriage, so they divorce ( My Eyes Adored You ) . The band continues to have chart successes ( Dawn (Go Away) ) until a loan shark demands money from Tommy after a concert (Walk Like a Man / reprise) .

2nd act

autumn

Nick Massi, who is now the narrator, explains that Bob was only focused on the band success and the future and failed to notice that the band had been in trouble for some time. Tommy runs into debt, and an overlooked bill from a previous tour ends up jailed for a weekend, straining Tommy's and Bob's relationship ( Big Man in Town ) . Nick observes that Tommy becomes jealous of Frankie's success and his relationship with Bob deteriorates. He tries to seduce Frankie's new friend Lorraine. The two don't confront each other, but the old friendship is no longer what it used to be. When the loan shark demands from the band the $ 150,000 Tommy owes him, Frankie asks Gyp DeCarlo for help, despite Tommy's objection that he doesn't need it ( Beggin ' ) . The band, DeCarlo and the loan shark come to an agreement: Tommy is to go to Las Vegas, where the Mafia will keep an eye on him, and the band will take over the debt, along with half a million untaxed income that Tommy hid from the group . At this time, Nick explains that he is tired of all things and he wants to stop. ( Stay / Let's Hang On! ) .

winter

Taking on the narrative role, Frankie explains that his relationship with Tommy is not ideal, even if he owes a lot to him. Nor does he understand why Nick decided to leave. Frankie and Bob find a replacement to keep the band as a quartet ( Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'bout Me) ) until Bob laments that he never really got into the spotlight, that Frankie is more of a soloist, and it is "Frankie and The Four Seasons" should be called. Frankie's relationship with his daughter Francine is strained privately and he breaks up with his girlfriend Lorraine ( Bye, Bye, Baby (Baby, Goodbye) ) . Musically, Frankie continues to enjoy success thanks to Bob's songs. He hits the jackpot with C'mon Marianne and the rarely played Can't Take My Eyes Off You , which Bob is fighting for. Coupled with the success of Working My Way Back to You , Frankie and Bob eventually pay off Tommy's debt, and Frankie's life is fine until his daughter Francine dies of a drug overdose (Fallen Angel) .

Enough

Bob Crewe describes the inclusion of the Four Seasons in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , which in 1990 brought the original four members together on stage for the last time ( Rag Doll ) . Each member briefly informs the audience about how proud they were to be part of the band and what they are doing now. ( Who Loves You ) .

Main roles and actors in the film

role description Original Broadway cast Current Broadway cast Original West End cast Current West End line-up Movie actor 2014
Frankie Valli Member and lead singer of the Four Seasons . John Lloyd Young Joseph Leo Bwarie,
Nick Cosgrove (alternating) 		Ryan Molloy ,
Scott Monello (alternating) 		Matt Corner,
Dale Hodge (alternating) 		John Lloyd Young
Tommy DeVito Member and lead guitarist of the Four Seasons . Leaves the group when he goes into debt with a loan shark. Christian Hoff Richard H. Blake Glenn Carter Simon Bailey Vincent Piazza
Bob Gaudio Songwriter, member and keyboardist of the Four Seasons . Youngest and newest member of the group. Daniel Reichard Drew Gehling Stephen Ashfield Declan Egan Erich Bergen
Nick Massi Member and bass player of the Four Seasons . Has a good ear for voices and trains Frankie on singing. J. Robert Spencer Matt Bogart Philip Bulcock Matt Hunt Michael Lomenda
Mary Delgado Frankie Valli's first wife. She advises Frankie on the spelling of his stage name and marries him when the group is just starting. They split up when the strain of Frankie's career weighs on their relationship. Jennifer Naimo Cara Cooper Suzy Bastone Nicola Brazil Renee Marino
Bob Crewe Record producer who became aware of the group before they rename themselves The Four Seasons . He records their music and helps them publish it. Peter Gregus Peter Gregus Simon Adkins Mark Dugdale Mike Doyle
Gyp DeCarlo A Mafia boss who has ties to the Four Seasons through Tommy DeVito . He helps the group when Tommy runs into a large amount of debt and becomes the third man to negotiate with the loan shark. Mark Lotito Mark Lotito Stuart Milligan Matt Cutts Christopher Walken
Joe Pesci Called "Joey," a friend of Tommy, Frankie and Nick, who introduced Bob Gaudio to the group. Eventually he becomes a member of the group. Michael Longoria Russell Fischer Jye Frasca Mark Heenehan Joey Russo
Norm Waxman The loan shark who gets Tommy into trouble because of his debts. Donnie Kehr Miles Aubrey Joseph Prouse Joe Maxwell Donnie Kehr
Lorraine A journalist who becomes Frankie's friend after his divorce. One of the reasons Frankie and Tommy quarreled when Tommy approaches her even though he knows she is with Frankie. Erica Piccininni Katie Webber Amy Pemberton Nicky Griffiths Erica Piccininni
Francine Valli Frankie's and Mary's daughter. At first she has a close relationship with her father and wants to become a singer. She dies of a drug overdose. Sara Schmidt Sara Schmidt Michelle Francis Helen Ternent Freya Tingley

music

Songs

1st act

2nd act

Instrumentation

Jersey Boys requires a small orchestra with nine musicians: three keyboards, guitar, bass, drums, two woodwinds and a trumpet. The first woodwind player plays alto and tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute and oboe. The second woodwind player plays tenor and baritone saxophone, clarinet and bass clarinet. The trumpet also changes to flugelhorn.

Reviews

Ben Brantley of The New York Times wrote: “The audience is raging. I'm talking about the real, mostly middle-aged audience at the August Wilson Theater who have forgotten what year they live in, how old they are, or most importantly, that John Lloyd Young is not Frankie Valli. And everything that has led up to this curtain feels as real and alive for a second as clapping your hands. "

Charles Spencer of The Daily Telegraph wrote, "Overpaid, over-sexed and all over here: I suspect it will be some time before London says Bye Bye Baby (baby goodbye) to the phenomenal Jersey Boys ."

Benedict Nightingale of The Times wrote, “Oh What a Night. There were times when I thought the performers even had the Beatles echoed in the musical texture. "

Quentin Letts of the Daily Mail wrote, “I have to say I enjoyed it. This is a great hit from a show with fantastic songs. "

Recordings and filming

→ Main article : Jersey Boys (film)

A recording with the original cast was created by Rhino Entertainment's Jersey Boys: Original Broadway Cast Recording (Rhino R2 73271) and released in November 2005. In 2007 this recording won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. In February 2008, the album went gold after selling more than 500,000 copies in the United States. In October 2009, the album went platinum for sales of 1 million copies in the United States. In 2010, GK Films acquired the rights to produce a film version of the musical, which Brickman and Elice were to write the script for. in August 2012, Jon Favreau was hired to direct and auditions began. In November 2012, Variety reported that Warner Bros. had dropped the film plans, and in May 2013, Frankie Valli, the lead singer of the Four Seasons , said the production was still in progress and that he would be casting his part on. In July 2013, Clint Eastwood began casting Jersey Boys . On July 17, 2013, the cast of the four leading roles was released: John Lloyd Young as Frankie Valli , Erich Bergen as Bob Gaudio , Vincent Piazza as Tommy DeVito and Michael Lomenda as Nick Massi . On July 23, 2013, Christopher Walken was introduced as the star of Mafiosi Gyp DeCarlo. Other casts are Mike Doyle as Bob Crewe , Joey Russo as Joe Pesci , Johnny Cannizzaro as Nick DeVito, Donnie Kehr as Norm Waxman, Jeremy Luke as Donnie, Phil Abrams as Music Publisher, Freya Tingley as Francine Valli, Renee Marino as Mary Delgado, Erica Piccininni as Lorraine and Kathrine Narducci as Frankie Valli's mother.

The film was released in the United States on June 20, 2014. It was released in cinemas in German-speaking countries on July 31, 2014.

Charity events

The West End cast of Jersey Boys appeared on December 11, 2008 as guest acts for the Royal Variety Performance , which was staged at the London Palladium in the presence of senior members of the Royal Family . The Royal Variety Performance is a gala event held annually at a major UK theater to raise money for the Benevolent Entertainer Fund . In 2010, the West End cast of the Jersey Boys gave a show the benefit of which was given to children in need . The show ended with a medley from Pudsey Bear and raised £ 60,150 for charity . In 2009 the cast also appeared as a guest act for children in need . Jersey Boys Chicago was honored for the top fundraiser in the Tour category on Broadway two years in a row. For every ticket sold on every Broadway performance in October 2010, $ 1 was  donated to Save the Music Foundation . Jersey Boys sought to fund a full music education program in a New York school. The show eventually grossed $ 43,521, restoring the instrumental music education program at a school in the Bronx. There are plans to donate additional funds for a second school.

The Boys in Concert

Four cast members from the original Broadway production, Christian Hoff, Michael Longoria, Daniel Reichard and J. Robert Spencer, embarked on a 2010 tour called The Boys in Concert . Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice sued the production, claiming that the four stole "songs, stage elements and the copyrighted logo" that portrayed it as the Jersey Boys' authorized performance . The production was renamed The Hitmen 4 , and Hoff, Longoria, Reichard, and Spencer counterclaims alleging that the allegations were false and that it was reputational damage. On September 23, 2010, Valli and the company dropped the original lawsuit on condition that the production name be changed to differentiate itself from the Jersey Boys . This production has been running under the name The Midtown Men since February 2013 .

Awards and nominations

Original Broadway production

year price category Nominated Result
2006 Drama Desk Award Excellent musical Nominated
Musical book Rick Elice and Marshall Brickman Nominated
Outstanding musical actor John Lloyd Young Won
Best supporting actor Christian Hoff Nominated
Daniel Reichard Nominated
Choreography Sergio Trujillo Nominated
Musical director McAnuff's Nominated
Sound Steve Canyon Kennedy Won
Tony Award Best musical Won
Best musical book Rick Elice and Marshall Brickman Nominated
Best Actor John Lloyd Young Won
Best supporting actor Christian Hoff Won
Best director McAnuff's Nominated
Best orchestration Steve Orich Nominated
Best stage design Klara Zieglerova Nominated
light Howell Binkley Won
2007 Grammy Award Best musical album Won

Original London production

year price category Nominated Result
2008 Laurence Olivier Award Best new musical Won
Best actor Ryan Molloy Nominated
Best choreography Sergio Trujillo Nominated
Best director McAnuff's Nominated
Sound Steve Canyon Kennedy Nominated

Web links

Individual evidence

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