Jersey Boys Blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Theater critic Chris Jones has an in-depth feature on Frankie Valli in today’s Chicago Tribune. Jones talks to Valli, in addition to Bob Gaudio, about the creation and phenomenal success of Jersey Boys and their career’s ups and downs over the last 50 years. Jones has also included interesting insights from Des McAnuff and Rick [...]

Kyle Lawson of The Arizona Republic recently checked in with original Four Seasons member Bob Gaudio, JB writer Rick Elice, and Rick Faugno, one of the actors who plays Frankie Valli for their thoughts on the lives and times of the Four Seasons. Here’s a preview of the interview: Q: Does Jersey Boys get the [...]

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 [...]

Check out K-EARTH 101 Gary Bryan’s interview with Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, and Rick Elice!

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 [...]

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, it’s time for BroadwayWorld.com to ask some of the biggest Broadway stars and industry leaders: “What’s the most romantic Broadway song ever?” Check out what Jersey Boys cast members (Erich Bergen, Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, J. Robert Spencer, and John Lloyd Young) and co-author Rick Elice had to [...]