Jersey Boys Blog

Theatermania.com reports that Jeremy Kushnier has spent many months touring the country as Tommy DeVito in the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys, which tells the true story behind the legendary musical group The Four Seasons. But even he admits that the audiences in Las Vegas, where a somewhat revised version of the show is playing [...]

In Norm Clarke’s Vegas Confidential column, he reports that Hollywood icon Garry Marshall attended the 10 p.m. performance of “Jersey Boys” at the Palazzo to take in Joseph Leo Bwarie’s last Vegas performance as Frankie Valli. As you all know, Joseph is taking over the same role on the Jersey Boys national tour. Also from [...]

Phil Gallo of Variety.com adored Jersey Boys in Vegas! According to Gallo, the Vegas edition of Jersey Boys displays a pure and propulsive rock ‘n’ roll spirit that has been less apparent in other incarnations. The production, especially the briskly paced first act, is big, loud and contagious thanks to snappy direction and a potent [...]

Anthony Del Valle of the Las Vegas Review-Journal states that Jersey Boys proves the show-biz bio still may have a few surprises in it. The expert production that recently opened at the Palazzo — about, as if anyone still didn’t know, the ups and downs of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons — is, as [...]

From MORE, KVVU-TV, Las Vegas.

In the May 2008 edition of Callback Entertainment, the Vegas Jersey Boys are again cover boys! According to Editor in Chief Chuck Rounds, the cast of Jersey Boys is as unique as the characters they portray. Erich Bergen, Rick Faugno, Jeremy Kushnier, and Jeff Leibow are excited about being in Las Vegas, are overwhelmed by [...]

Recorded May 21, 2008 on MORE KVVU TV, Las Vegas

Chad Jones of the Contra Costa Times provides an update about one of the newest resorts in Vegas–The Palazzo, along with a marvelous interview with Jeff Leibow, who stars as Nick Massi in the Vegas production of Jersey Boys! Jones notes that The Palazzo is a different kind of resort for Las Vegas. For one [...]

Ellen Fagg of The Salt Lake Tribune has posted a terrific story on Natalie Bradshaw, from Park City, Utah, who plays Francine, and so many other roles in the Vegas production of Jersey Boys. Fagg talks to Natalie, her mother, and her former theatre director about her dreams, her hard work, and the excitement of [...]

Recorded May 14, 2008 on MORE KVVU TV, Las Vegas.

Oh, What A Gala–Saturday, May 3, 2008–Jersey Boys Opening Night at The Palazzo!! Photos by the Tech Half and Danielle Gaudio-Lalehzar. Walking into the magnificent Palazzo on Saturday evening, May 3, 2008 for one of the most exciting things ever to hit Las Vegas–Jersey Boys Opening Night Gala and Frankie Valli’s 74th birthday celebration–was a [...]

Jerry Fink of the Las Vegas Sun notes that the ink was still drying on his driver’s license when he first heard “Sherry,” the song that ignited the career of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. It was late at night in the summer of 1962 on the shoulder of some rural, two-lane road that [...]

Thank you to Kathy Johnstone for sharing her fabulous Opening Night photos!

Before LasVegasWeekly.com reviewer Jacob Coakley saw Jersey Boys, he didn’t understand the adulation it received when it debuted in New York, and he wasn’t sure it could create the same excitement in Vegas. Well, that was then. This show’s got excitement all right, and it absolutely deserves it. In fact, according to Coakley, Jersey Boys [...]

Visit The Strip Podcast to listen to a terrific interview with the legendary Bob Gaudio, and the actor who plays him in Jersey Boys in Vegas–Erich Bergen!!

Steve Friess of LasVegasWeekly.com notes that Frankie Valli got some Vegas vindication at last weekend’s premiere of Jersey Boys. It is hard to believe now, especially after the weekend that just was, that only a few years ago Frankie Valli walked out during a three-week contract at the Luxor and was declared by at least [...]

Elysa Gardner of USA TODAY asks: How hot is Jersey Boys, the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical tracing the lives and careers of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons? After launching a national tour and productions in Chicago and London, it just opened Saturday at a custom-built venue in Las Vegas. Just as Caesars Palace designed [...]

Ellen Sterling of BroadwayWorld.com states that it has finally happened. A hit Broadway musical — a Tony Award-winner — has arrived in Las Vegas and it is the closest thing to both a Broadway experience and a genuine hit Broadway show this city has ever seen. But, as of tonight, we have Jersey Boys — [...]