WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST
BROADWAY at dr. phillips center 15
CHLOE TISO (Francine and others). National Tour:
Annie (Grace). Regional: Seven Brides for Seven
Brothers (Ogunquit), Austen’s Pride (Fingerlakes), On
The Town (Barrington), White Christmas, The Drowsy
Chaperone. Royal Caribbean: Grease (Sandy). Ithaca
College BFA. Lots of love and thanks to family,
friends, 9Muse, and the entire JB team!
KIT TREECE (Swing). National Tour: A Chorus
Line (Bobby), Hairspray. New York: Jersey Boys, New
York Spring Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall
(standby for Derek Hough). Regional: The Rocky Horror
Show (Old Globe), Mame (Goodspeed), A Christmas
Carol (Hartford Stage), Chicago (North Shore
Music Theatre), Oliver! (Engeman Theatre). Graduate
of the Hartt School. @KitTreece
JESSICA WOCKENFUSS (Lorraine and others).
JB debut! Off-Broadway: Hey, Look Me Over!, Me
and My Girl (Encores! City Center). National Tour:
White Christmas, The Little Mermaid, Spamalot.
Regional: 42nd Street (Peggy Sawyer, North Shore),
Chicago (Roxie Hart, Theatre By the Sea), Paper Mill
Playhouse, Sacramento Music Circus, TUTS, PCLO,
KC Starlight. BFA Elon. Love and light.
MARSHALL BRICKMAN (Book). Films (author
or co-author): Sleeper, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Manhattan
Murder Mystery, For the Boys, Intersection;
(as writer/ director): Simon, Lovesick, The Manhattan
Project, Sister Mary Explains It All. Television: “The
Tonight Show with Johnny Carson” (head writer),
“The Dick Cavett Show” (head writer/co-producer).
He has published in The New York Times, The New
Yorker, Playboy and other periodicals and was the
2006 recipient of the Writers Guild of America’s Ian
McClellan Hunter Lifetime Achievement Award. Jersey
Boys
co-author Rick Elice), won four Tony Awards including
Best Musical. The Addams Family, his second
theatrical venture (also with Rick), ran over 700 performances
on Broadway and had national and international
tours. Upcoming projects include musicals
about Roy Rogers and the Woodstock Festival of 1969.
RICK ELICE (Book) co-wrote Jersey Boys (winner
2006 Tony Award, 2007 Grammy Award and 2009
Olivier Award for Best Musical) with the great Marshall
Brickman. His play, Peter and the Starcatcher,
received nine 2012 Tony Award nominations (includ-
season), and is one of the most produced plays in North
America. Also on Broadway, Elice wrote The Addams
Family (with Marshall Brickman, music and lyrics by
Andrew Lippa), which also had productions on tour
across North America and in Europe and South America.
Getting ready for Broadway in the fall of 2018,
The Cher Show, directed by Jason Moore. Heartfelt
thanks to those whose work in the theater makes him
grateful for the day he was born: Sondheim, Stoppard,
Bennett, Prince, Fosse, Robbins, Nichols, Tune, Nunn,
Laurents, Stone, Kushner, Taymor, Papp, Schumacher,
Schneider, David, Strong, Gaudio, Valli, McAnuff,
Trujillo, Seller, Suarez, Moore, Gattelli, Coyne, Brickman,
Timbers and, eternally, Roger Rees. Rick thinks
about them a lot. He never thought about Jersey much.
He does now.
BOB GAUDIO (Composer
Wears Short Shorts,” at 15, for the Royal Teens, and
then went on to become a founding member of The
Four Seasons and the band’s principal songwriter. He
also produced the hit “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”
for Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand (Grammy
nomination, Record of the Year) as well as six albums
for Diamond, including The Jazz Singer. Other
producing credits include albums for Frank Sinatra,
Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson and the
Little Shop of Horrors.
Several songs co-written with Bob Crewe have been
cover hits for such artists as the Tremeloes (“Silence Is
Golden”), the Walker Brothers (“The Sun Ain’t Gonna
Shine Anymore”) and Lauryn Hill (“Can’t Take My
Eyes Off You”). With his wife, Judy Parker, Gaudio
produced and co-wrote the Who Loves You album for
The Four Seasons and one of Billboard’s longestcharted
singles (54 weeks), “Oh, What a Night.” A
high point in his career came in 1990 when, as a member
of the original Four Seasons, Gaudio was inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1995, he was
inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, which
hailed him as “a quintessential music-maker.” To this
day, Bob Gaudio and Frankie Valli still maintain their
partnership...on a handshake.
BOB CREWE (Lyricist). “New York was pregnant in
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ties.” Crewe and music partner Frank Slay became independent
writer-producers when the category hadn’t
yet been invented. In 1957, they wrote and produced
“Silhouettes” for The Rays, which skyrocketed to #1.
Suddenly, producers in demand, they launched Freddie
Cannon’s “Tallahassee Lassie” and Billy & Lillie’s
“Lah Dee Da.” Crewe’s 1960’s unprecedented
producing success with The Four Seasons birthed a
new sound, striking a major chord in American pop.
“Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Walk Like a Man,”
“Candy Girl,” “Ronnie” – all smashes! When lead
Frankie Valli demanded a solo turn, Crewe and Bob
Gaudio wrote (and Crewe produced) “Can’t Take My
Eyes Off of You,” which eventually became the cen-
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ists from Vicki Carr, Oliver and Lesley Gore to Mitch
Ryder, co-writing with Charles Fox the soundtrack
Barbarella. Then his own Bob
Crewe Generation exploded with “Music to Watch