Ben Apfelbaum

JERSEY BOYS COMMENCES REHEARSALS

JERSEY BOYS is returning to Sydney and the full Company commenced rehearsals on Monday 23rd July. JERSEY BOYS will open at the Capitol Theatre on the 6th September 2018 with preview performances commencing on the 29th August 2018. The internationally acclaimed hit musica; tells the true life story of four guys from the wrong side of town and the rise to stardom of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, one of the most successful bands in pop music history. The band sold more than 175 million records and were inducted into the Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Fame for their worldwide hits including Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, Walk Like A Man, Bye Bye Baby, Sherry and Big Girls Don’t Cry, which all feature in the musical.

After auditioning 450 artists nationwide, the successful cast members are a combination of exciting and emerging talent. Stepping into the illustrious shoes of  Frankie Valli is Bernard Angel. He will be joined by Cameron MacDonald as Tommy De Vito, Thomas McGuane as Bob Gaudio and Glaston Toft as Nick Massi.

This production has won  64 honours worldwide including the 2010 Helpmann Award, 2006 Tony Award, the Olivier Award, and the Grammy Award for Best Musical show album.

http://www.jerseyboys.com.au

All pics by Ben Apfelbaum.

 

Published by Ben Apfelbaum

My photography began when my father handed me the proverbial brownie box camera as a child. As cameras developed I went through Fujica and Olympus range finders graduating to my first single lens reflex camera, the Minolta SRT101, the latter being the greatest facilitator to my growth as a photographer. Digital photography has only added to this. I was a regular contributor to Camera Craft magazine (Australian Camera ) for over three years. During Australia’s Bicentennial year (1988) I made it a personal project to document the celebrations. This culminated in the creation of a book of my photos which was published in 1989. The book was called CELEBRATING AUSTRALIA and came with an accompanying calendar. My works have appeared in a number of publications including the coffee book entitled MY AUSTRALIA (1989), publisher Robertsbridge Severn. This book had a preface by the then Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke. I was a co-photographer on a book entitled SYDNEY- DISCOVER THE CITY with text written by Robert Treborlang. Major Mitchell Press was the publisher. Also for two years I was the photographer for calendars celebrating Sydney’s multicultural communities. The two calendars were entitled MULTICULTURAL SYDNEY. My work appeared in a group exhibition held at Sydney’s Town Hall pertaining to the diversity of life in South America to raise money for orphanages there. I have over one hundred photos stored in the New South Wales State Library archive. I had a solo exhibition held in 2007 entitled Ben’s Lens at the Sydney Jewish Museum which celebrated the vibrancy of the Sydney Jewish community. Some of these photos are on the Museum’s permanent display. I have exhibited internationally firstly at the Spruill Gallery in Atlanta Georgia, United States, and in an exhibition entitled Kosher and Co at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Currently I am a regular contributor to J-Wire and this esteemed publication. To celebrate the opening of a permanent Photography Gallery, the State Library of New South Wales selected 400 shots from its archive of over 2,000,000 images to display in the new gallery. An image of mine was plucked out of the multi million photo archive to be part of the inaugural exhibition.