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Added Weeks Announced for 2006 Tony Award-Winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys

BOSTON, MA: Four additional weeks have been announced for the Boston engagement of JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, playing the Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre for ten weeks only! The musical will make its Boston premiere on Thursday, July 23 and play through Sunday, September 26. Press night is scheduled for Wednesday, July 29 at 7 PM. Tickets for all ten weeks are now on sale.

JERSEY BOYS is the winner of the 2006 Best Musical Tony® Award and the 2006 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Show Album.

Directed by two-time Tony® Award-winner Des McAnuff, JERSEY BOYS is written by Academy Award-winner Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe and choreography by Sergio Trujillo.

JERSEY BOYS is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how a group of blue-collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks became one of the biggest American pop music sensations of all time. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide - all before they were thirty.

JERSEY BOYS opened at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway to critical acclaim on November 6, 2005. The JERSEY BOYS National Tour opened to rave reviews in San Francisco on December 1, 2006, played a record-breaking run in Los Angeles and is still breaking house records in cities across North America. There are six current productions of JERSEY BOYS: New York, London, Chicago, Las Vegas, Toronto, a US National tour, and a seventh production will open in Melbourne, Australia in July, 2009.

The JERSEY BOYS design and production team comprises Klara Zieglerova (Scenic Design), Jess Goldstein (Costume Design), Howell Binkley (winner of the 2006 Tony® Award for his Lighting Design of JERSEY BOYS), Steve Canyon Kennedy (Sound Design), Michael Clark (Projections Design), Charles LaPointe (Wig and Hair Design), Steve Orich (Orchestrations) and Ron Melrose (Music Direction, Vocal Arrangements & Incidental Music).

JERSEY BOYS is produced by Dodger Theatricals, Joseph J. Grano, Tamara and Kevin Kinsella, Pelican Group, with Latitude Link and Rick Steiner.

JERSEY BOYS will premiere in Boston at the Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre Thursday, July 23 and will run through Sunday, September 26. The performance schedule is Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8 PM, except for Press night on Wednesday, July 29 at 7 PM, and Sundays at 7 PM, with matinees on Saturdays and Sundays at 2 PM, and an additional matinee on Thursday, July 30 at 2 PM.

Tickets for JERSEY BOYS are now on sale at the Citi Performing Arts Center Box Office, online at www.citicenter.org or by calling 866-348-9738. Prices begin at $49; all prices include a $3.00 facility/education-public programming fee per ticket. Tickets are available for groups of 20 or more by calling Citi Performing Arts Center Group Sales at 617-532-1116 or Show of the Month Group Sales at 857-366-8182.

JERSEY BOYS tickets are also available for members of The Club at Citi Performing Arts Center and Show of the Month Club. The Club at Citi Performing Arts Center members can purchase tickets by calling 877-232-8898, online at www.citicenter.org/club or in person at the Box Office Monday - Saturday, 10 AM - 6PM. Show of the Month Club members can purchase tickets by calling 857-366-8181 or online at www.showofthemonth.com/jerseyboys.

The Original Broadway Cast Recording of JERSEY BOYS, produced by Bob Gaudio, was recently certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. The cast recording is now available on Rhino Records. JERSEY BOYS: The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons (Broadway Books) is the official handbook to the smash Broadway hit.

For more information on JERSEY BOYS, go to www.JerseyBoysInfo.com or www.citicenter.org.