Jersey Boys Blog

Visit Broadway.com to see amazing photo coverage by Bruce Gilkas of John Lloyd Young, Jennifer Naimo, and the other stars of Les Miserables!

Thanks to Charly O’Clarit, we have fabulous photo coverage John Lloyd Young, Jennifer Naimo, and fans at Les Miserables at the Hollywood Bowl!

Travis Cloer’s amazing new CD, “Setting the Standard” has been released! It was wonderful to chat with Travis about his thoughts and inspiration behind his latest recording project: This new CD is a project that I’m very proud of. It’s a collection of some of my favorite jazz standards along with some other tunes that [...]

Check out BroadwayWorld.com for extensive photo coverage of John Lloyd Young, Jennifer Naimo, and the entire cast of Les Miserables rehearsing in Los Angeles. For even more photos, visit JLY’s and Jennifer’s blogs.

BroadwayWorld.com reports that two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff will direct the first production of Guys and Dolls to open on Broadway in 17 years! It will open in the spring of 2009 at a Nederlander Theatre to be announced. With music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, [...]

The multi-talented Travis Cloer has just completed his new CD “Setting the Standard.” It is a collection of some of the greatest vocal standards from the American Songbook, including “Moody’s Mood for Love,” “On the Street Where You Live,” “I’m Beginning to See the Light,” “In the Still of the Night,” “Cry Me A River,” [...]

Hi all, – I just wanted to send a quick thank you to all who made such generous donations on my behalf in the Strip-a-Thon for Broadway Bares. It was a hugely successful event. My final total was $2380.00 which added to the $127,630 total for the Strip-a-Thon alone. The entire event raised a total [...]

John Patrick Gatta of The Morning Journal has a preview story about Jersey Boys coming to the Playhouse Square Center’s State Theatre in Cleveland. Gatta spoke with Andrew Rannells, who plays Bob Gaudio in the JB national tour. Here’s a sneak peek of what Andrew has to say about playing the legendary songwriter: Now, that [...]

By Lauren Avila, Jersey Boys Blog Special Correspondent She captured our hearts as Frankie’s girlfriend, Lorraine, along with many other characters. Unfortunately, now the time’s come for Lauren Marshall “to get off the merry-go-round.” As a powerful singer, Lauren thrilled audiences with exciting numbers such as “Ces Soirees-La,” “My Boyfriend’s Back,” and “Who Loves You.” [...]

Jersey Boys starts performances in Toronto on August 21 in a Dancap production at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. Theatre Critic Richard Ouzounian of the Toronto Star notes that both JB choreographer Sergio Trujillo and director Des McAnuff started their careers in Toronto but have become worldclass theatre artists. According to the critic, Toronto [...]

Jennifer Naimo reports on her blog that she will be appearing in a future “Nip/Tuck” episode on the FX Network. She’ll be shooting this Friday and will be playing a casting director. Stay tuned for updates and congratulations to Jen!

A message from Peter Gregus: Hi all you Jersey Fans, I was wondering if you could help me out. I am working on an event for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids. It’s called Broadway Bares and it’s going to be held June 22 at the Roseland Ballroom. It’s a burlesque show that I am the associate [...]

Update from Travis Cloer! While Michael Longoria is on vacation, Travis will be going on as Frankie Valli during the following upcoming matinee performances: Saturday May 24 Wednesday May 28 Saturday May 31 Wednesday June 4 Saturday June 7

John Altieri touched so many people in his short life–family, friends, many Jersey Boys’ fans, and his many colleagues. Along with Erich Bergen’s moving tribute, fellow castmates Eric Gutman and Taylor Sternberg have honored John with very touching words and stories on their blogs.

Photos courtesy of Audrey Rockman. Here are the latest updates from JERSEY BOYS on Broadway: After originating the role of Lorraine (and so many other roles) in Jersey Boys, the incredibly talented Erica Piccininni will be playing her final Jersey Boys performance today. All the best wishes to Erica and her husband in their future [...]

You can’t keep a great twosome too far apart, can you?! On Jennifer Naimo’s blog, she reports that she will also be in the cast of Les Miserables at the Hollywood Bowl with John Lloyd Young! She has a fun audition story and says it was the easiest one that she’s ever had! Also, on [...]

Visit Jennifer Naimo’s blog for some wonderful reflections about her amazing experience on Broadway and some great photo coverage of her last day with the JERSEY BOYS cast, crew, and friends.

Normally, we try to update the Jersey Boys Blog daily with all of the late breaking news, cast updates, and everything else going on with Jersey Boys all over the world. However, I admit—every time I sit down at the laptop and attempt to say good-bye and thank you to Jennifer Naimo now that she [...]

Ryan Molloy, the West End Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys recently spoke to Whatsonstage.com’s Roger Foss about playing the legendary singer. Here’s a preview of what Ryan discovered about Valli: I hoped to meet Frankie Valli when I flew to New York for the final audition for Jersey Boys, but he was far too busy [...]