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AP drama writer Michael Kuchwara reports that the world premiere of Turn of the Century, written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, will be part of an ambitious 2008-2009 season at Chicago‘s Goodman Theatre. Tommy Tune will be directing the musical. Turn of the Century came to the Goodman through Rick Elice, who co-wrote the [...]

SeattlePI.com’s Theater Critic Joe Adcock has an interesting interview with Jersey Boys’ co-author Marshall Brickman. According to Adcock, creating a stage musical is not, normally, hazardous. Maybe you deal with some dangerous characters. But Nazis likely are not going to come after producers of “Cabaret” or “The Sound of Music” just because those plays portray [...]

New York Post columnist Michael Reidel provides some theatrical tidbits today, including an update on the film rights to Jersey Boys and JB’s upcoming Vegas show: Bob Gaudio, who wrote most of the Four Seasons’ hit songs, wants a ton of money for the film rights to Jersey Boys. Steven Spielberg is after the show, [...]

Philip Potempo of NWI.com states that it’s been nearly two years since its smash Broadway debut, but Academy Award-winning writer Marshall Brickman says he’s still amazed at how popular Jersey Boys remains. The musical story of singer Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons premieres in Chicago at the LaSalle Bank Theatre, 18 W. Monroe Ave., [...]

Jersey Boys Blog wishes Jersey Boys’ co-writer Marshall Brickman a Happy 66th Birthday!! Brickman was born in Brazil to American parents on August 25, 1941. While still in his teens, Brickman was a member of the Tarriers, a group which also included future actor Alan Arkin. He paid his way through college as a folksinger [...]

Photos courtesy of Linda Lenzi at BroadwayWorld.com. “Broadway Stands Up for Freedom!,” a benefit concert to support the youth programs of the New York Civil Liberties Union, took place on Monday, July 16th at 7:30 pm at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 La Guardia Place, Washington Square South). Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice, [...]

Playbill.com reports that Tony Award-nominated Jersey Boys book writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice are working on a new Broadway-aimed musical to be directed by Tommy Tune. Patrick Pachecho reported on the cable channel NY1 that the project, called Turn of the Century, is a kind of jukebox musical filled with American pop standards. According [...]

Visit ArtsPass.com for a terrific video interview Jersey Boys authors Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, who share their story of writing the musical hit and bringing Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons to the Broadway stage.

Playbill.com reports that Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice, and Erich Bergen, along with a slew of Tony Award winners will raise their voices on July 16 in the 5th annual Broadway Stands Up for Freedom!, a concert benefiting the youth programs of the New York Civil Liberties Union. The New York Civil Liberties Union has been [...]

Variety.com reports that The Addams Family, a new large-scale tuner based on the cartoons of Charles Addams aims to hit the Rialto in the 2009 -10 season! The big news for Jersey Boys fans–Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice will provide the book! Produced by Chicago-based Elephant Eye Theatrical, the musical will be capitalized at more [...]

In today’s San Francisco Chronicle, Jersey Boys director Des McAnuff and co-author Marshall Brickman have written letters to the editor about their recent misunderstanding. An Excerpt from McAnuff: …Marshall and Rick went off and wrote a fabulous script while, simultaneously, my creative team designed and planned a production of which I am truly proud. While [...]

Looks like Jersey Boys director Des McAnuff and co-author Marshall Brickman may have had a bit of a misunderstanding recently. It began after a February 14 article in the San Francisco Chronicle about the three actresses who play the girls in the national tour of Jersey Boys. In the article, Director Des McAnuff explains why [...]

Theatermania.com reports that Jersey Boys co-author and Academy Award winner for “Annie Hall,” Marshall Brickman will emcee the upcoming Guild Hall Academy of the Arts 22nd Annual Lifetime Achievement Awards. The gala benefit will take place on Monday, March 19 at the Rainbow Room at 6:30PM. Tony Award winner Mercedes Ruehl will receive the Guild [...]

Michael Elkin of The Jewish Exponent has a wonderful feature on Jersey Boys co-author Marshall Brickman, who shares his thoughts on his early days, his career as a writer, and his success story with the 2006 Tony Award-winning Jersey Boys. Here’s a short preview of this terrific story: Oy, what a night? No, it was [...]

Pat Craig, of InsideBayArea.com provides a detailed look at of Jersey Boys, one of the most remarkably successful musicals to come along in years. The show, about the on- and offstage lives of The Four Seasons, has been running on Broadway for more than a year, and it opens its San Francisco run on Sunday [...]

Karen D’Souza of the Mercury News has a great interview piece with Jersey Boys’ director Des McAnuff and book writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Ellis. Jersey Boys, the 2006 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, kicks off its national tour Sunday at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre. The director and the writers talk about how the [...]

New York Post’s Michael Riedel has some big news regarding the possibilities of Jersey Boys becoming a movie, with Stephen Spielberg, and other Hollywood moguls interested in turning this Broadway blockbuster into a film! According to Riedel, Steven Spielberg is said to be in hot pursuit of the movie rights to Jersey Boys. He’s seen [...]

Check out BroadwayWorld.com’s photos of John Lloyd Young and many of today’s other big-voiced Broadway stars as they strutted their stuff on the acoustically-perfect Town Hall stage on Monday, November 13 at 8 PM in “Broadway Unplugged,” a concert of all-Broadway music performed as it was in the days before microphones. Also, take a look [...]

Playbill.com’s Ernio Hernandez states that Marshall Brickman — one half of the Tony Award-nominated bookwriting team of Broadway’s Jersey Boys — seems a glutton for punishment as he prepares for musicalizing “Father of the Bride.” At first, Brickman was tentative about the project, but was “dragged into it by Rick [Elice, his Jersey Boys collaborator] [...]