A Jersey Boys book. A Jersey Boys story. A Broadway memoir. A how-to guide to making it on Broadway. Everyone's heard of JERSEY BOYS. Thirteen million people have seen the show, totaling more than $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales. The cast members have performed on Oprah , the Today show, Dancing with the Stars, and at the Emmy Awards. Their recording has gone Platinum, selling more than a million copies in the United States alone. There are six companies performing it around the world right now: New York, Las Vegas, London, Australia, Singapore... the boys are everywhere. And Daniel was one of them. PLACES, PLEASE! (BECOMING A JERSEY BOY) documents Daniel Robert Sullivan's transformation from a "small-time" professional actor to one of the stars of a worldwide hit mega-musical, covering his two years of auditions, weeks of rehearsals, and hundreds of performances in JERSEY BOYS, where he appeared as bad-boy Tommy DeVito. Daniel shares his experiences with the nuts and bolts of a life in musical theatre, from the arduous audition process to the elation of finally landing that big role. He also shares backstage secrets and the lighter side of the demanding industry. This is the story of a boyhood dream coming true.

Daniel Robert Sullivan is an actor and teaching artist. He received a Master's Degree in Acting and Directing from the University of Missouri/Kansas City, and three Bachelor's degrees (Comparative Literature, Secondary Education, and Acting) from the University of Rhode Island. He has appeared as Tommy DeVito in the hit musical JERSEY BOYS for nearly 1000 performances, and has led hundreds of theatrical classroom workshops throughout New York City. The New York Times referred to Daniel as having "the seductive magnetism of a snake-oil salesman" and his wife agrees. The two live in Manhattan, piecing together an artistic and sporadically stable life. Please "like" Daniel's Facebook page to say hello!

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