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The
Parade
Company
announces
the
Jersey
Boys to
open
America's
Thanksgiving
Parade
presented
by Art
Van
DETROIT
- The
Parade
Company
is
pleased
to
announce
that the
Broadway
sensation,
JERSEY
BOYS
will
kick-off
the 89th
America’s
Thanksgiving
Parade®
presented
by Art
Van. The
Tony,
Grammy
and
Olivier
award-winning
musical
will
open
this
year’s
parade
with a
live
performance
from TV
zone
prior to
the
parade’s
travel
down
Woodward
Avenue
on
Thanksgiving
morning.
The
JERSEY
BOYS
musical
is the
story of
Frankie
Valli
and The
Four
Seasons:
Frankie
Valli,
Bob
Gaudio,
Tommy
DeVito
and Nick
Massi, a
group of
blue-collar
boys
from the
wrong
side of
the
tracks
who
became
one of
the
biggest
American
pop
music
sensations
of all
time.
They
wrote
their
own
songs,
invented
their
own
sound
and sold
175
million
records
worldwide
- all
before
the age
of
thirty.
“We are
thrilled
to
kick-off
this
year’s
America’s
Thanksgiving
Parade®
presented
by Art
Van with
a
larger-than-life
performance
by one
of
Broadway’s
most
successful
musicals
– JERSEY
BOYS,”
said
Tony
Michaels,
president
& CEO of
The
Parade
Company.
“We are
honored
to
welcome
this
outstanding
cast to
Woodward
Avenue
on
Thanksgiving
morning.”
Tickets
are
currently
on sale
for the
return
engagement
of
JERSEY
BOYS at
Detroit’s
Fisher
Theatre,
November
17 –
December
6.
Tickets
are
available
for
purchase
at all
Ticketmaster
locations,
by phone
at
1.800.982.2787,
online
at
www.broadwayindetroit.com
or
www.ticketmaster.com,
and at
the
Fisher
Theatre
box
office.
This
year’s
parade
theme is
“So
Happy
Together.”
Recognized
as one
of the
best
Thanksgiving
parades
in the
country
by U.S,
News &
World
Report
Travel,
America’s
Thanksgiving
Parade®
presented
by Art
Van will
be held
on
Thursday,
November
26. For
more
information,
visit
theparade.org.
The
parade
will be
featured
on WDIV-TV
Local 4,
including
a
one-hour
national
broadcast
reaching
more
than 150
major
cities
across
the
country.
News/Talk
760 WJR
will
also
broadcast
live
from the
parade
route.
About
JERSEY
BOYS
Directed
by
two-time
Tony®
Award-winner
Des
McAnuff
, JERSEY
BOYS won
the 2006
Tony®
Award
for Best
Musical,
the 2006
Grammy
Award®
for Best
Musical
Show
Album,
the 2009
Olivier
Award
for Best
New
Musical,
the 2010
Helpmann
Award
for Best
Musical
(Australia),
and
continues
to break
box
office
records
on
Broadway
and
across
North
America.
JERSEY
BOYS
worldwide
has been
seen by
over 22
million
people
(as of
January,
2015).
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 show
features
all of
the
their
hit
songs
including
“Sherry,”
“Big
Girls
Don’t
Cry,”
“Oh What
A
Night,”
“Walk
Like A
Man,”
“Can’t
Take My
Eyes Off
You” and
“Working
My Way
Back To
You.”
About
The
Parade
Company
Founded
in 1984,
The
Parade
Company
is a
not-for-profit
organization
governed
by the
Michigan
Thanksgiving
Parade
Foundation
whose
board of
directors
is
comprised
of key
civic
and
corporate
leaders
in the
greater
Detroit
region.
The
Parade
Company
is
celebrating
89 years
of
Parade
tradition
in
Detroit
and is
committed
to
funding,
creating
and
executing
the best
family
events
in
Michigan.
The
Parade
Company
staff,
board of
directors
and
thousands
of
parade
volunteers
work
year-round
to bring
a wide
variety
of
magnificent
events
to the
City of
Detroit
and the
region
including
the Ford
Fireworks,
Hob
Nobble
Gobble®
presented
by Ford
Motor
Company,
Strategic
Staffing
Solutions
Turkey
Trot and
America's
Thanksgiving
Parade®
presented
by Art
Van.
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