[The Very Angry Woman]

(Known already: 1NT leaving SF for LA.)

http://jennifernaimo.com/news/2007/03/26/a-day-off/#comments

This is rather unusual, for a tour to move on from its launch city only to be taken over by a new tour, but what I expected.

[YouCanCallMeCoco]

The SF run was extended past the LA opening date, so the first cast will be heading to their run in LA while the Chicago cast finishes the SF run and heads over to Chicago. They start rehearsals Monday and the new tour will start start their SF run May 5th till Sept 30th.

[The Very Angry Woman]

So what's up with the alternate Frankie Valli situation in SF, now that Jarrod Spector has left?

[YouCanCallMeCoco]

That's a good question, I honestly don't know. They might do what they did on Broadway, and have 'Joey Peci' cover the mats as Frankie and bring a swing on for Joey, in which case the Frankie cover would be Rick Faugno. But again, I could just be making this all up.

[The Very Angry Woman]

For anyone keeping track (I'm really surprised at how sparsely populated this board is), Rick Faugno took over Jarrod Spector's track, and Courter Simmons has been Joey for about a month now.

[jerseyboyslover]

Here is some what of a cast list for the 2nd tour, the rest will be told on Friday.

Jarrod Spector as Frankie Valli, Steve Gouveia as Nick Massi, Jeremy Kushnier as Tommy Devito, Andrew Gehling as Bob Gaudio, Lauren Marshall as Lorraine and others, Jenny Lee Ramos as Mary, Craig Laurie as Bob Crewe, Eddie Driscoll as Gyp DeCarlo, Jake Speck-Swing, Ryan West as Hank Majewski and others, Steven Goldsmith as Joey, Wade McCollum, John Michael Dias/frankie cover

go to http://www.myspace.com/jerseyboysnationaltour2 for pictures of the cast, and news.

[audreydarling]

I was wondering abouit the situation when I heard the run was extended! I thought..WOW that's a long long time to be performing in one city! glad I got that all cleared up.