JB National Tour’s Four Seasons: Steve Gouveia, Joseph Leo Bwarie, Josh Franklin, and Matt Bailey (Photo Credit: Joan Marcus)
Tonight through January 23, 2010, the JERSEY BOYS national tour will be playing in Detroit at the Fisher Theatre. Here’s a sneak peek into what reporters are saying about the blockbuster hit!
Lawrence B. Johnson, Detroit News: Johnson […]
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The latest Jersey Boys Podcast has been posted! JB Podcast #70 includes a fabulous in-depth interview with JERSEY BOYS co-author Rick Elice!
(more...)The stars are definitely in alignment today–as not one–but two Jersey Boys geniuses are celebrating their birthdays!! We wish Jersey Boys co-writer Rick Elice a very Happy Birthday today!
How did the Jersey Boys project happen? Rick Elice and Marshall Brickman were looking to do something together. As luck would have it, friends had arranged […]
(Photo Credit: Mark Seliger)
The new musical THE ADDAMS FAMILY, based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams, will make its pre-Broadway world premiere in TONIGHT in Chicago. The musical features a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, in addition to choreography by Sergio Trujillo!
Preview performances begin […]
In a special to The Washington Post, Nelson Pressley talks to Frankie Valli and co-writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice about how the JERSEY BOYS musical came about and the international hit it has become. Below is a preview:
Frankie Valli doesn’t call “Jersey Boys” a musical; he consistently refers to the Broadway show as […]
As reported earlier, Bob Gaudio and Rick Elice were in Toronto last week for the first-anniversary gala performance of JERSEY BOYS!
Robert Cushman chatted with Gaudio and Elice about creating JERSEY BOYS and the show’s worldwide success.
According to Gaudio, the show is to be believed. “I was a more than reluctant performer. Who […]
In a recent interview with Diane Snyder, Rick Elice explains the JERSEY BOYS phenomenon. Here’s a preview of what Rick had to say:
“At that moment the audience has forgotten they’re watching four actors and they root for these four guys as though they really are The Four Seasons in their youth,” says Rick Elice, one […]
Visit EncoreAtlanta.com to listen to and read Kristi Casey Sanders’ in-depth interview with Rick Elice! Here’s a preview:
Q: How did you get involved in the ‘great fight’?
A: When I was three years old, I taken by my parents to see a show on Broadway. I was born here in NY and my parents, I guess, […]
Steven Bryan of AJC.com states that JERSEY BOYS makes its local debut Wednesday at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta! During the run, the touring production will see its 1,000th performance.
Here’s a preview of the story that features interviews with Rick Elice, Joseph Leo Bwarie, Josh Franklin, and Des McAnuff.
“That’s three years of touring,” […]
Kristi Casey Sanders of EncoreAtlanta.com has an interesting interview with Rick Elice, who talks about the beginnings of JERSEY BOYS and its eternal heart.
According to Elice, the show exists because of three miracles that took place between October 2003 and October 2004. The first miracle was that Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio gave […]
The Boston Globe’s Louise Kennedy notes that Boston’s downtown theaters will have a busier summer than usual–with JERSEY BOYS (July 23-Sept. 26), The Color Purple, and Rent coming to town.
What all three shows have in common, aside from successful Broadway runs and crowd-pleasing tunes, is a strong sense of story - and a story […]
In an exclusive South Florida appearance, meet the co-writer of Jersey Boys, the 2006 Tony Award–winning Best Musical about Rock-and- Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons featuring Frankie Valli in Behind the Scenes: Rick Elice on Saturday, April 18 at noon in the Abdo New River Room. For an insider’s look at […]
(more...)Visit Broadway.com to see photos of the JERSEY BOYS dream team: Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice, and Bob Gaudio showing off their show’s awards backstage at the August Wilson Theatre earlier this week. The awards: Best Musical Tony Award; Best Cast Album Grammy Award; and most recently, Best Musical Olivier Award!
(more...)Joseph Leo Bwarie, left, Josh Franklin, Erik Bates and Steve Gouveia perform as the Four Seasons in Jersey Boys. (Photo Credit: Joan Marcus)
Fiona Soltes of The Tennessean notes that The Four Seasons are, of course, best known for their music — but don’t be too quick to categorize their story as a musical revue. Jersey […]
Rick Elice and Frankie Valli pose with the Melbourne Jersey Boys cast members at last week’s press launch in Las Vegas.
JERSEY BOYS Melbourne opens at the Princess Theatre on July 4, 2009!
The Tony Award-winning musical’s writer, Rick Elice told Australian AAP that he is confident the Australian version of JERSEY BOYS will be just […]
Michael Riedel reports that good buzz is coming out of this week’s invitation-only reading of “The Addams Family” musical, with lots of cheers for what one spy calls a “brilliantly funny” cast - Nathan Lane (Gomez), Bebe Neuwirth (Morticia), Kevin Chamberlain (Uncle Fester), Marylouise Burke (Grandmama) and Terence Mann and Jan Maxwell as a “normal” […]
(more...)News from BroadwayWorld.com: La Jolla Playhouse welcomes back Rick Elice, co-writer of the Tony Award-winning Jersey Boys, as the playwright of Peter and the Starcatchers. Alex Timbers and Roger Rees are set to direct with choreography by Kelly Devine and music by Wayne Barker. Peter and the Starcatchers will be playing at the Sheila and […]
(more...)Broadway.com’s “First Person” column has a real treat today–the Rick Elice story, from Rick himself! Here’s a sneak peek into this amazing story:
When I was at Yale Drama School, nobody was into Broadway musicals. It just wasn’t cool. Everybody was genuflecting at the altar of Chekhov, but working on Broadway was my private dream. Don’t […]
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