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The Broadway company of the Tony-winning Best Musical Jersey Boys, which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary at the August Wilson Theatre, will welcome the return of Nicolas Dromard to the cast later this month.
Dromard, who has also been seen in the Jersey Boys tour, will temporarily play the role of Tommy DeVito while Richard H. Blake takes a leave of absence; he is scheduled to be with the production Dec. 22, 2015-March 6, 2016, according to a production spokesperson.
Dromard attended the Greta Leeming Studio of Dance in Nepean, Ontario in his youth. He went on to study music at École secondaire publique De La Salle, a performing arts high school in Ottawa, where he learned to play the piano and the flute.
He was inspired to start dancing when he saw a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movie. He would dance in the halls at school, and his teacher told his parents to sign him up for dance lessons.
Dromard's first paid acting role was "Little Boy" in a TV movie called The Tin Soldier at age 12.
Dromard was very active in his hometown, participating in amateur community theater shows such as Anne of Green Gables – The Musical and Crazy for You.
In 1998, he was in New York City at a dance contest when he was scouted to be part of the Radio City Productions Christmas Spectacular at a satellite production in Branson, Missouri.
In 1999, Dromard earned his Canadian Actors' Equity Association card by performing in West Side Story at the Stratford Festival of Canada in Stratford, Ontario. He earned his American Actors' Equity Association card when he performed in the 2002 Broadway revival Oklahoma! as Sam.
Dromard's Broadway credits also include Mary Poppins, The Boy from Oz and Oklahoma!
Jersey Boys is written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, direction by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff and choreography by Sergio Trujillo.
The musical, according to press notes, "is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi, about 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 sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide — all before they were thirty." The show features "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."
Jersey Boys is the recipient of the 2006 Tony Award for Best Musical and the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Musical. The Original Broadway Cast Recording, produced by Bob Gaudio, received the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and has been certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The Broadway production also won the 2006 Outer Critics Circle & Drama League Awards for Best Musical.
For more information visit JerseyBoysBroadway.com.
From Andrew Gans for www.playbill.com and www.nicolasdromard.com.
Photo: Nicolas Dromard. ©Dirty Sugar Photography.
2015-12-02
New York: Ottawa-born Nicolas Dromard joins Broadway's "Jersey Boys" December 22-March 6