Multi award-winning musical Jersey Boys will be back on the road for its third UK and Ireland tour from November.
Launching at the New Wimbledon Theatre on 25 November 2020 and currently booking through to 12 November 2022, the tour will visit Oxford, Birmingham, Liverpool, Stoke, Milton Keynes, Bradford, Sunderland, Glasgow, Hull, Llandudno, Inverness, Southampton, Leeds, Blackpool, Newcastle, Nottingham, Woking, Torquay, Manchester and Dublin. 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 is also due to return to the West End to take up residence at the new refurbished and reinstated Grade II listed Trafalgar Theatre in Whitehall from 28 July. Produced in London by the Dodgers and Trafalgar Theatre Productions Ltd, Jersey Boys will now celebrate its opening night on 10 August with tickets now on sale for performances through Christmas and up to 2 January 2022. Casting for both productions is to be announced.
Written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice with music by Bob Gaudio and lyrics by Bob Crewe, both productions of Jersey Boys will be 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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