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CLARKSTOWN SUMMER THEATRE
ALUMNI INTERVIEWS PAGE
In honor of our 35th Anniversary year we are starting a new feature. We will be presenting interviews with various alumni who have used CSTF as a springboard to careers in the arts and in other areas. We hope you enjoy them.
PETER GREGUS
ABOUT PETER GREGUS:
Peter Gregus was born in Rockland County and attended Tappan Zee High
School. He joined Clarkstown Summer Theatre Festival in 1992 as a Director
Peter gave us a tour of the August Wilson Theater before he sat down for a one on one interview. The interview was conducted in the lobby of the theater in between the matinee and evening performances on Wednesday March 28, 2007. Look below for the actual interview in four parts. Thanks to You Tube for putting up the interview.
After having broken records in its smash run at California's La Jolla Playhouse, the Four Seasons musical Jersey Boys opened at the newly named August Wilson Theatre on Sunday, November 6th after beginning previews on October 4th. The show went on to win the 2006 Tony Award for Best Musical.
Peter Gregus (second from the right) is rehearsing a scene with other cast members of "Jersey Boys" JERSEY BOYS features a book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice, music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, and is directed by TonyŽ Award-winner Des McAnuff
Peter Gregus (r) rehearses a scene from "Jersey Boys" JERSEY BOYS is the Broadway musical about The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how a group of blue-collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks 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 cast of JERSEY BOYS is lead by Christian Hoff (Tommy DeVito), Daniel Reichard (Bob Gaudio), J. Robert Spencer (Nick Massi) and John Lloyd Young (Frankie Valli) as The Four Seasons. The cast also includes CSTF Alumni Peter Gregus,Tituss Burgess, Steve Gouveia, Heather Ferguson, Donnie Kehr, John Leone, Michael Longoria, Mark Lotito, Jennifer Naimo, Dominic Nolfi, Erica Piccininni, and Sara Schmidt. THE INTERVIEW
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of our 20th Anniversary show “Hello Dolly”.
From
there he went on to Direct for Elmwood Playhouse and eventually wound up
on Broadway. The rest as they say is history. Peter is currently on
Broadway in “Jersey Boys”, playing the role of Bob Crewe.
