Donny Osmond, right, with Jeff Leibow, appears at the Danny Gans Memorial Champions Run for Life, a benefit for Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation, on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015, at Town Square.
This week, Monday By the Numbers opens with a moment caught at the fifth-annual NF Hope Concert at the Venetian’s Sands Showroom. Members of the Paris Las Vegas show “Jersey Boys” were onstage to perform shtick with ex-cast member and NF Hope Foundation Director Jeff Leibow and his wife, Melody.
It was left to “Jersey Boys” performer Graham Fenton to introduce the next act, which was an intrinsically easy assignment considering the next act was his wife, Nicole Kaplan Fenton.
“Please welcome, from ‘Showstoppers’ at Wynn Las Vegas, Miss Nicole Kaplan Fenton,” Fenton said, then caught himself as he walked offstage. “Mrs.! Mrs.!”
“I’ve only had seven years to practice that,” Fenton later tweeted. Kaplan checked in with, “I’m part of the silent auction.”
With that, we dissect “Jersey Boys” on the event of the show’s 3,000th show on the Strip, first at Palazzo (where it opened in May 2008) and, currently, Paris Las Vegas (where it has performed since March 2012). The 3,000th show was formally celebrated Thursday night. Requisitely, cake was served.
Let’s dial it up:
22: Total cast members.
82: Characters in the show.
18: Roles played by any performer in the Francine track, the highest number in the show.
65: Total number of cast, crew and musicians in the production.
4: Members of The Four Seasons.
8: Number of shows per week when the show opened.
6: Number of shows per week as of this summer.
1,373: Seats in Paris Las Vegas theater.
30: Number of The Four Seasons songs used in the show.
175 million: Records sold by The Four Seasons.
10: Years since the show opened on Broadway (premiering Nov. 6, 2005, at August Wilson Theater).
188: Costume changes in the show.
2,726: Performances logged by original Las Vegas cast member Leibow as Nick Massi (counting his appearances at Curran Theater in San Francisco, Palazzo and Paris).
7: Years Leibow was in the show.
70: Wigs used in each show (counting those worn by the swings).
1: Ape suit worn in the show.
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