Jersey Boys announces final show in Sydney

 It was officially announced today that Jersey Boys – The Story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, will close on December 18 at Sydney’s Theatre Royal after a 14 month season at the venue. 

 It was officially announced today that Jersey Boys – The Story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, will close on Sunday December 18 at Sydney’s Theatre Royal after a 14 month season at the venue.   Jersey Boys is the third major musical to announce it’s closing for this final weekend before Christmas – Love Never Dies will also close on the 18th December at the Regent Theatre Melbourne before moving the the Capitol Theatre, Sydney. Mary Poppins will leave the Capitol Theatre on Saturday 17 December to move on to Brisbane’s Lyric Theatre, QPAC.  All Australia’s major musicals will be playing ‘swapsies’ over the Christmas break – with most re-opening in January in new theatres across the country.  

• Annie will begin previews from January 29 at the Lyric Theatre, Star City.
• Adelaide’s first show of the new year, with A Chorus Line set to open on New Year’s Eve at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
• Rock Of Ages will open in Sydney on January 12 at the Theatre Royal and Love Never Dies opens two days later on January 14 at the Capitol Theatre.
• Mary Poppins will open on January 6 in Brisbane.
• Jersey Boys will transfer to New Zealand in April 2012 for a season at The Civic Theatre, Auckland.

It has also been speculated that Strange Bedfellows – A New Musical, which recently postponed it’s premiere season at The Princess Theatre, Melbourne for at least 10 weeks, will be opening in Perth in the new year. Nothing has been confirmed at this stage, but with most other theatres in Australia already occupied, a Perth opening does seem like a possibility. To book tickets to the final months of Jersey Boys and other major Australian musicals, click here