Jersey Boys–From Bandstand, to Broadway, to San Francisco!
December 2nd, 2006Ben Fong-Torres of the San Francisco Chronicle notes that only a year after opening in Manhattan to ecstatic reviews, winning over even the critics who’d come to dread what they called “jukebox musicals,” Jersey Boys is in San Francisco with a touring company and the same director, Des McAnuff, who staged it on Broadway. In this article, Fong-Torres talks to original Four Seasons Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio; book writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice; and director Des McAnuff about Jersey Boys’ inception, its run at La Jolla Playhouse, and its astounding success on Broadway.
