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PHOTO CALL: The National Broadway Tour of Jersey Boys

Broadway Across America and Texas Performing Arts at the University of Texas at Austin launch the 2010-11 H.E.B. Broadway Series with the Austin premiere of the hit musical Jersey Boys. The multi-award winning production plays a four-week run at Bass Concert Hall, from August 18th through September 18th.

Directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Des McAnuff, the musical won the 2006 Tony Award for "Best Musical," the 2006 Grammy Award for "Best Musical Show Album," and the 2009 Olivier Award for "Best New Musical." The show continues to break box office records on Broadway and across North America.

Written by Academy Award-winner Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, Jersey Boys features music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, and choreography by Sergio Trujillo. The story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons - Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi - explores 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. Watch a preview of the show online at www.JerseyBoysInfo.com/watch.

Jersey Boys opened at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway in November 2005, and

the national tour debuted in San Francisco in December 2006. Six productions of the musical are currently playing - in New York, London, Las Vegas, Toronto, Melbourne, Australia, and the U.S. National tour.

Performances for the Austin stop run play Tuesdays throughs Friday at 8 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; and Sundays at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. - with an additional matinee on Thursday, August 19th at 2 p.m. Tickets start at $30.

Bass Concert Hall is located at 2350 Robert Dedman Drive on the University of Texas campus. Tickets are on sale now at the Bass Concert Hall box office, all Texas Box Office Outlets, by phone at (512) 477-6060, and online at www.BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com.

(Photos by Joan Marcus - clockwise from top:

- Kara Tremel and Joseph Leo Bwarie;

- Joseph Leo Bwarie, Kara Tremel, Steve Gouveia and Matt Bailey;

- Joseph Leo Bwarie and Ryan Jesse;

- Gangsters;

- Eric Gutman, Steve Gouveia, Joseph Leo Bwarie, Joseph Siravo and Matt Bailey.)