20th Anniversary Jersey Boys National Tour Will Launch in September | Playbill

National Tour News 20th Anniversary Jersey Boys National Tour Will Launch in September

The original Broadway creative team, led by director Des McAnuff and choreographer Sergio Trujillo, will reunite for the upcoming production.

The Tony, Grammy, and Olivier Award-winning musical Jersey Boys will launch a 20th anniversary multi-city North American tour beginning in September.

The tour will be staged by the original Broadway creative team, led by director Des McAnuff and choreographer Sergio Trujillo, with scenic design by Klara Zieglerova, costume design by Jess Goldstein, lighting design by Howell Binkley, sound design by Steve Canyon Kennedy, projection design by Michael Clark, and production supervision by Danny Austin. The orchestrations are by Steve Orich, and the music supervision and vocal arrangements by Ron Melrose.

Tour cities, ticketing information, and casting will be announced at a later date.

Jersey Boys is written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio and lyrics by Bob Crewe.

The musical, which tells the behind-the-music story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, opened in New York November 6, 2005, and ended its 11-year Broadway run January 15, 2017. The musical subsequently returned to New York in November 2017 at Off-Broadway’s New World Stages, where it continued through 2022. The original Broadway production won four Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

In all, the international hit has won 65 major awards, including London's Olivier, and been seen by over 30 million people worldwide.

The musical features such hits as “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “December 1963 (Oh, What a Night),” “Walk Like A Man,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” “Beggin’,” and “Working My Way Back to You.”

A 20th anniversary U.K. and Ireland tour has also been announced and will open June 15 at the New Wimbledon Theatre, currently booking dates through 2027.

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