January 5, 2011

Rick Elice’s Love for the Colonial Theatre!

January 5th, 2011

Rick Elice
Rick Elice at his caricature unveiling at Sardi’s

The Boston Globe’s Culture Desk blog has a great interview with Rick Elice, who chats about his love for the Colonial Theatre! Here’s a preview:

When ”Jersey Boys” coauthor Rick Elice read in the Globe yesterday that his show had broken a weekly box-office record at the Colonial Theatre, pulling in $1.1 million for the week that ended Sunday, he got very excited _ and not just for the financial reasons you’d expect.

It turns out that the Colonial has occupied a rather substantial place in Elice’s heart for decades.

“The Colonial is a theater that, for me, is one of the great places in the world,” Elice said today in a telephone interview. “It’s a beautiful, beautiful theater. I never dreamed that ‘Jersey Boys’ would play there, so I was very happy to hear that it broke the record.”

In the early 1970s, when he was a stage-struck teenager and Boston was still a significant tryout town for productions on their way to Broadway, Elice used to take the train from New York to catch shows at the Colonial. He remembers seeing Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies” there in 1971, and Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music” a couple of years later.

Visit Boston.com to read the full interview with Rick.

2 Comments »

  1. Congratulations Rick, you are the epitome of what the human race should be made of,sweet, kind, funny,thoughtful, oh my god I could go on and on and on. You deserve nothing but the BEST! Because that’s what you put out there in the universe!
    Now,how many of those sweet pix of you are on the wall at Sardi’s….you should have your own wall!
    With Love, as you call me
    Kath or KJ

    Comment by Kathy Johnstone — January 6, 2011 @ 12:36 pm

  2. I couldn’t have said it better, Kathy. I am so happy Rick has realized the success he has….and I’m sure all notice that “The Addams Family” is also in the million dollar club week after week. (Even Michael Reidel ate some crow over that in his 2010 wrap-up in the NY Post.) Great story about the Colonial Theatre; Rick continues to amaze us.

    Comment by Howard — January 6, 2011 @ 11:26 pm

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