Deven May Cast as Tommy DeVito in Jersey Boys National Tour
Deven May of Bat Boy fame will play Tommy DeVito in the cast that will launch the upcoming national tour of Jersey Boys. Joining May are Erich Bergen as Bob Gaudio, Michael Ingersoll as Nick Massi and Christopher Kale Jones as Frankie Valli. The musical retelling of the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons won four 2006 Tony Awards and continues to be a hot ticket on Broadway.
The Jersey Boys tour begins on December 1 at San Francisco's Curran Theatre under the direction of Des McAnuff. Opening night is December 10, and the production is scheduled to run through February 11, 2007. Jersey Boys will play the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles May 25 through August 5, opening June 3, followed by a limited run at Chicago's LaSalle Bank Theatre beginning October 2007. The production press release was careful to stipulate that May, Bergen, Ingersoll and Jones will "launch" the tour in San Francisco, leaving open the possibility that members of the Broadway company Tony winners John Lloyd Young and Christian Hoff and co-stars Daniel Reichard and J. Robert Spencer might join the company in Los Angeles.
May received Drama Desk and Lortel Award nominations and won a Theatre World Award for playing the title role in Bat Boy. He revived the part last year in the UK productions at The West Yorkshire Playhouse and The Shaftesbury. Other stage credits include A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Camelot and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
Bergen's recent theatrical credits include Pure Heaven: The Music of Kay Thompson, The Three Musketeers and White Christmas.
Ingersoll's Chicago stage credits include I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, The Three Musketeers, Josephine Tonight!, Romeo & Juliet and Tick, Tick … Boom! He spent the last three years as a resident company member of Playhouse on the Square.
Jones appeared in McAnuff's La Jolla Playhouse production of Zhivago. Regional credits include Miss Saigon, Olympus on My Mind, A Christmas Carol and The Ballad of Little Jo.
Also in the touring cast are John Altieri as Bob Crewe, Joseph Siravo as Gyp DeCarlo, Miles Aubrey, Erik Bates, Sandra DeNise, Jennifer Evans, Rick Faugno, Eric Gutman, Nathan Klau, Brandon Matthieus, Jackie Seiden, Jarrod Spector, Taylor Sternberg and Melissa Strom.
