'Jersey Boys' juggernaut takes on Vegas Strip

"Jersey Boys" continues to sell out on Broadway 2 1/2 years later, and there are companies doing it in Chicago and London, and seemingly everywhere in between. Most recently, the show opened at a new, custom-made Jersey Boys Theatre in Vegas, in the just-opened, all-suite Palazzo hotel. A Toronto company comes next. Then Australia. Then . . . .

Continue reading -- and watch the videos -- of the behind-the-scenes story of "Jersey Boys."

Read Times Theater Critic Charles McNulty's review of the Vegas show.

PHOTO GALLERY TOUR WITH FRANKIE VALLI:

Loitering at the piano in his Calabasas home is a rare luxury for Frankie Valli. His concert-touring career has been energized by the pop-culture phenomenon of "Jersey Boys," and when that doesn't keep him on the move, he can almost always find a "Jersey" production to drop in on. The newest presentation of "Jersey Boys," the stage musical built from the lives and songs of the 4 Seasons, is at Las Vegas' Palazzo resort-hotel-casino.