Jersey Boys Blog

Rebecca Little of Chicagomag.com recently spoke with the original Jersey Boy–Frankie Valli. A consummate professional who parlayed his trademark falsetto into 25 top-40 hits and counting, Valli just released a new compilation of love ballads, “Romancing the ’60s,” and has an upcoming concert date at the Chicago Theatre. Marquee spoke with Valli recently about his [...]

Anne Jones of ChicagoActor.com states that Jersey Boys is a story about four blue collar New Jersey boys who through trial and tribulations deal with prison, mobsters and betrayal on their way to the top of the music spectrum. It could serve as a sequel to HBO’s “Sopranos” (oddly enough Valli was on “The Sopranos” [...]

Jersey Boys has EXPLODED in the Windy City! Here’s a roundup of the latest reviews: JSOnline.com:Rather than conjure up a fluffy bit of fiction to connect the songs (“Mamma Mia”) or dramatize the individual hits through dance and a thin thread of fabricated plot (“Movin’ Out”) “Jersey Boys” uses the rough-edged, mean-streets real lives of [...]

Can it get any better than this? Not only did Jersey Boys on Broadway break the house record at the August Wilson Theatre last week, but the Chicago engagement broke the house record at the LaSalle Bank Theatre! The show grossed $1,120,920.90, breaking the house record which was previously held by the world-premiere of Monty [...]

Chicago Sun-Times reports after setting a box office record at the LaSalle Bank Theatre by grossing more than $1.1 million for the week ending Sunday, Jersey Boys has producers of the hit musical singing “Let’s hang on to what we’ve got.” The show about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons has been extended through July [...]

Alan Bresloff states that he just witnessed the 2006 Tony Award Winning Jersey Boys at the LaSalle Bank Theater—it is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons told through the magic of the music that they performed. Here is a wonderful mixture of storytelling and concert—in fact, the action stopped twice as the [...]

Check out this 10News video! Frankie Valli and Christopher Kale Jones, talk to 10News about the hit musical Jersey Boys, which runs through Nov. 11th at the Civic Theatre Downtown.

Michael J. Roberts of BroadwayWorld.com says that Jersey Boys is a hit, pure and simple! With thirty songs in the production, including the Four Seasons five Number One hits as well as one of the best lit shows ever produced, Jersey Boys delivers on every emotional level, including quite the tear jerker when Mr. Valli [...]

Photos courtesy of Danielle Lalehzar.

DailySouthtown.com notes that it would be a terrific show if only for showcasing the greatest hits of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. But Jersey Boys, in its opening at the LaSalle Bank Theatre in Chicago, has even more than memorable music going for it. The rags-to-riches tale of this dazzling musical is irresistible. Yet [...]

Barbara Vitello of the Daily Herald states that there is no Sherry, no Dawn, no Marianne in Jersey Boys. There are no big girls crying. Jersey Boys doesn’t entirely conform to the jukebox formula, namely a score cobbled together from hit tunes, around which a contrived narrative is shoehorned. Instead, this exuberant bio-musical about the [...]

Chicago Tribune Theater Critic Chris Jones says Jersey Boys is a show that walks like a hit, acts like the big man in town and deserves to stay. This one gets the big things right. It doesn’t mess with the sound—such Gaudio-penned hits as “Sherry,” “Walk Like a Man,” and “Rag Doll” are delivered with [...]

Chicago Sun-Times Theater Critic Hedy Weiss says Jersey Boys is “pure platinum”! The 2006 Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, has arrived in Chicago in a supercharged knockout of a national touring company production. At Sunday’s opening, Valli and Gaudio came up on stage to take bows and hug their remarkable doppelgangers, giving the audience a chance [...]

Pauline Dubkin Yearwood of Chicago Jewish News has a terrific piece on Jersey Boys, including interviews with cast members Jarrod Spector, John Michael Coppola, and Steven M. Goldsmith. Jarrod Spector is playing the role of a lifetime when he appears as Frankie Valli, the lead in the highly anticipated touring company production of Jersey Boys, [...]

Chicago Tribune entertainment reporter Terry Armour covered Jersey Boys’ opening night at LaSalle Bank Theatre in Chicago tonight. He states that there are two things Frankie Valli could never have dreamed. First, that a bunch of New Jersey kids would gain worldwide fame as The Four Seasons. And second, that some years later that group [...]

Barbara Vitello of the Daily Herald says it took more than three years from the time Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio realized The Four Seasons story might make a better musical than TV film for Jersey Boys to become a reality. “It was a pipe dream then,” Gaudio says, one of the original Four Seasons [...]

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., [...]

Tribune arts critic Sid Smith notes that actor-singer Jarrod Spector not only plays Frankie Valli in “Jersey Boys” — he likes him. That may be inevitable, given the opportunity offered by such a role and such a successful show, now in previews and set to open Oct. 14 at the LaSalle Bank Theatre. “I’m under [...]

Dave Hoekstra of the Chicago Sun-Times reports that next year will be the 50th anniversary of Bob Gaudio meeting Frankie Valli and his group the Four Lovers when they were appearing on a New Jersey television show. Gaudio went on to play with the Four Seasons before becoming their songwriter, often collaborating on lyrics with [...]