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Pictured (left to right): Shonn Wiley, Dominic Scaglione Jr., Michael Cuno and Michael Ingersoll with the Company of Jersey Boys.
photo by Joan Marcus
Talented Oak Park Actor Plays Five Characters In Chicago's Jersey Boys.
review by Ed Vincent
"An exhilarating biographical drama, with toe tapping
hits and a time when love and respect were in the lyrics
and lives of many....a great show -- come and see it several
times...."
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Jersey Boys is not just a popular show, it has some
five different groups performing this show in cities
all around the world, plus a traveling show doing
the same.
On the night that we went to see the performance and
see our own special hometown hero of the stage, we
were surrounded by people who had literally seen
this production in Chicago three or more times.
There are some folks from San Francisco who have reportedly gone 16 times or more, so there seems to even be a cult level to this show. I have not spoken
to anyone who has not loved this show or has not recommended it.
Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi
were the Four Seasons and Dominic Scaglione Jr. plays Frankie Valli, Shonn Wiley plays Bob Gaudio, Michael Cunio as Tommy DeVito, and Michael Ingersoll as Nick Massi.
Oak Park legend Jonathan
Weir plays a total of five different
characters (all with power and
authority of various amounts)
and
I didn't even notice all of his roles until I spoke with Mr. Weir
and he was pleased that I didn't spot him in all of the roles.
I have had the
delight to see Mr. Weir in "The
part of Scrooge (he was wonderful in the lead role with a grand
metamorphosis of the sardonic cheapskate). I enjoyed the Lion King with his feats of costumed glory (when he did back up).
Jonathan Weir
When Jonathan Weir appears on stage as the powerful
mobster Gyp DeCarlo, he has your attention and repect or you might be in trouble. We Oak Parkers have a long history with gangsters and architects. Some designed nice buildings and some designed funerals for their competition and also helped get some Presidents of the United States elected.
Mr. Weir living in Oak Park for a couple of decades
and four kids in the Oak Park schools, could have the mafioso in his blood, or at least his actors stash.
Mr. Weir also teaches classes for theater students
at Loyola University. He has been requested to perform a host of other roles in the area, and in other
towns, but he is currently busy with his role in the Jersey Boys. Tickets are being sold now for shows
up until October of this year, it is still an open run
and there are full houses most nights of the show-
and always standing ovations.
The sets, lighting, music, choreography, and story
are inviting, and blended with strong language and
down home fun.
CHICAGO’S RECORD-BREAKING ‘JERSEY BOYS’ CELEBRATES SECOND YEAR AT
THE BANK OF AMERICA THEATRE
CHICAGO — Presented by Broadway In Chicago and TheatreDreams, the record-breaking hit JERSEY BOYS is celebrating its second smash year in Chicago. JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, premiered in Chicago on October 5, 2007 and became a resident production on February 27, 2008. The show is currently playing at the Bank of America Theatre (18 W. Monroe St.) in an open run.
JERSEY BOYS tells 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 stars Michael Cunio as Tommy DeVito, Chicagoan Michael Ingersoll as Nick Massi, Dominic Scaglione Jr. as Frankie Valli, and Shonn Wiley as Bob Gaudio, with Craig Laurie and Chicagoan Jonathan Weir.
The ensemble of JERSEY BOYS includes Dominic Bogart, Jared Bradshaw, John Michael Coppola, John Michael Dias, Mike Erickson, Alayna Gallo, Steven M. Goldsmith, Merissa Haddad, Michelle Knight, Sydney Morton, Kraig McCreary, Rashad Naylor, Timothy Quinlan, Ryan Quinn West and Chuck Webb.
Directed by two-time Tony Award® - winner Des McAnuff, JERSEY BOYS won both the 2006 Tony Award® for Best Musical and the 2006 Grammy Award® for Best Musical Recording, and continues to break box office records on Broadway and in Chicago. 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.
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.
The performance schedule is as follows: Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m.; Wednesdays at 2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.; Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.; Fridays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.; and Sundays at 2 p.m.
Tickets for JERSEY BOYS range in price from $30 - $110 and are available at all Broadway In Chicago Box Offices (24 W. Randolph St., 151 W. Randolph St. and 18 W. Monroe St.); the Broadway In Chicago Ticket Line at (312) 902-1400; all Ticketmaster retail locations (including Hot Tix and select Carson Pirie Scott, Coconuts and fye stores); and online at www.BroadwayInChicago.com. A limited number of premium seats are also available. Groups of 15 or more should call (312) 977-1710.
Rush tickets ($25) go on-sale at 10 a.m. (11 a.m. on Sundays) the day of each performance. Ten (10) front row seats are available at the Bank of America Theatre Box Office (18 W. Monroe St.) only. As many as forty (40) additional seats, subject to availability at select performances, are made available online at Ticketmaster.com and at the Bank of America Theatre Box Office. Rush ticket limit is two (2) tickets per patron and all seats are limited view.
For more information on JERSEY BOYS, go to
www.JerseyBoysChicago.com or www.BroadwayInChicago.com.
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