Jersey Boys Blog

Visit GILG to watch Marshall Brickman’s and Rick Elice’s recent appearance on “Theater Talk”! In addition to talking about the success of Jersey Boys, the writers give an update on the other projects they’re working on: Turn of the Century and The Addams Family. You’ll also get an interesting glimpse into Brickman’s and Elice’s collaboration [...]

BroadwayBroadcast.com reports that Marshall Brickman and Rick Elicewill be guests on Theater Talk Friday, July 11 at 1:30 AM on WNET Thirteen. The interview will then repeat on CUNY TV: Saturday, July 19 at 8:30 PM; Sunday July 20 at 12:30 PM; Monday, July 21 at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM and 7:30 PM.

On a recent edition of “Theater Talk,” Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice discuss the devoted Jersey Boys’ fan base and its recent opening in Las Vegas.

Variety.com reports that Turn of the Century, a new tuner from the Jersey Boys team of Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, is set to run from September 19-October 25 at the Goodman’s Albert Theater in Chicago! The musical will star Jeff Daniels and Rachel York and will be directed by Tommy Tune. While the musical [...]

Plain Dealer Theater Critic Tony Brown fills everyone in on the real story behind The Four Seasons’ arrest in Cleveland. Here’s the real story: On Sept. 6, 1965, a Labor Day Monday, The Four Seasons played a variety show hosted at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus by TV personality Mike Douglas. Columbus cops arrested [...]

Jersey Boys national tour plays the Playhouse Square in Cleveland from Wednesday June 18 through July 20! John Benson of The Gazette recently spoke to JB co-writer Rick Elice about the blockbuster musical. Why is Rick Elice excited about Jersey Boys’ Cleveland debut? According to Elice: In a way, The Four Seasons is like a [...]

Entertainment Reporter Bruce DeMara of the Toronto Star spent some time talking with Frankie Valli and Rick Elice, who were in town yesterday to promote the first major Canadian production of Jersey Boys, at the Toronto Centre for the Arts from Aug. 21 to Oct. 5, presented by Dancap Productions. The Tony Award-winning musical, which [...]

Dennis Brown of RiverfrontTimes.com has a terrific interview with Jersey Boys co-author Marshall Brickman. Brown states that Brickman should be an inspiration to everyone who has never been able to hold a job. Brickman is the ultimate freelancer: He has had all kinds of jobs — comedy writer, screenwriter, director — but never for long. [...]

Rhoda Koenig from The Independent notes that while other jukebox musicals have taken the route of hagiography (Buddy) or fantasy (Mamma Mia), Jersey Boys is a little bit different. Instead of using The Four Seasons’ catalogue to illustrate the triumph of talent and persistence, or a fictional romantic romp, Rick Elice and Marshall Brickman fashioned [...]

New York Post reports that Rick Elice, co-writer with Marshall Brickman of the smash hit Jersey Boys, is off to oversee the show in London, where it opens next month. “I have to make sure the jokes work,” he said the other night at the opening of an exhibit about Broadway musicals at the Library [...]

Jersey Boys’ stories are ubiquitous in the Florida press today. SPTimes.com Performing Arts Critic John Fleming has an in-depth feature that includes interviews with Bob Gaudio, writer Marshall Brickman, musical director Ron Melrose, and JB national tour member Andrew Rannells! It all started with “The Deer Hunter.” There’s a scene in the 1978 movie in [...]

With Jersey Boys opening at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, and playing through March 15, Jay Handleman of the Heraldtribune.com has a terrific story about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, their rise to fame, and the story behind JB! The feature includes interviews with Bob Gaudio, Rick Elice, and Christopher Kale [...]

Norm Clarke, Vegas Confidential columnist in the Las Vegas Review Journal, reports that Bob Gaudio, one of the original members of the Four Seasons and executive producer of Jersey Boys, got his first look at the Jersey Boys Theatre at Palazzo yesterday. He was accompanied by Rick Elice, who co-wrote the multiple Tony Award-winning show [...]

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, [...]

The stars are in alignment on November 17th! Along with Bob Gaudio, Jersey Boys’ co-author Rick Elice celebrates his 52nd birthday today! Rick Elice saw his first Broadway show at the age of three. From that day on, he dreamed of working in the theater. From the age of 19, he has. He has a [...]

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., [...]

The Chicago Sun-Times Entertainment section has an amazing array of features today on Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons and Jersey Boys–the Tony Award-winning musical that will have its official opening at the LaSalle Bank Theatre next Sunday. Chicago Sun-Times Sunday Show Editor Miriam Di Nunzio’s interviews with Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Rick Elice, and [...]