Blair Gibson, Michael Pickering, Dalton Wood and Lewis Griffiths are cast in the third UK and Ireland tour of Jersey Boys. Picture: Darren Bell
Michael Pickering and Lewis Griffiths will return to the roles of Frankie Valli and Nick Massi when multi-award-winning musical Jersey Boys hits the road for its third UK and Ireland tour next month.
Pickering and Griffiths will be joined by Blair Gibson as Bob Gaudio and Dalton Wood as Tommy DeVito. Luke Suri will play Frankie Valli at certain performances.
The cast also includes Dougie Carter (Hank Majewski), Ryan Carter-Wilson (Swing), Emma Crossley (Mary Delgado), Jordan James (Gyp DeCarlo), Norton James (Norm Waxman), Michael Levi (Bob Crewe), Tom O’Brien (Swing), Nathan Routledge (Swing), George Salmon (Joe Pesci), Ellie Seaton (Lorraine), Daisy Steere (Francine), Amy West (Swing) and Damien Winchester (Barry Belson).
Launching at the New Wimbledon Theatre on 24 November (until 27 November) and now booking through to 1 April 2023, the tour will visit Oxford, Birmingham, Dartford, Liverpool, Stoke, Milton Keynes, Bradford, Sunderland, Glasgow, Hull, Llandudno, Belfast, Inverness, Southampton, Leeds, Blackpool, Newcastle, Nottingham, Woking, Manchester, Dublin, Eastbourne, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Wolverhampton and Northampton. Further locations will be announced at a later date.
The much-loved show which tells the true rags to riches story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons returned to the West End to take up residence at the new refurbished and reinstated Grade II listed Trafalgar Theatre in Whitehall in August.
Written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice with music by Bob Gaudio and lyrics by Bob Crewe, both productions of Jersey Boys are staged by the original Broadway creative team led by the Tony Award-winning team of Des McAnuff and choreographer Sergio Trujillo with scenic design by Klara Zieglerova, costume design by Jess Goldstein, lighting by Howell Binkley, sound by Steve Canyon Kennedy and projections design by Michael Clark. The orchestrations are by Steve Orich and the music supervision and vocal arrangements by Ron Melrose.
Winner of Tony, Olivier and Helpmann Awards for Best New Musical, Jersey Boys has won 65 major international awards and has been seen by over 27 million people worldwide.
After debuting on Broadway in 2005, the hit-packed jukebox musical first opened in London at the Prince Edward Theatre on 18 March 2008 before moving to the Piccadilly Theatre in March 2014 where it ran for another three years. Jersey Boys also played two record-breaking UK and Ireland tours from 2014 to 2016 and from 2017 until 2019.
The Broadway production ran for 11 years, taking its final bow in January 2017 as the 12th longest-running musical in Broadway history. Jersey Boys returned to New York with a new production in November 2017 and the US national tour broke house records in cities across the country.
Angela Thomas
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