Jersey Boys Blog

Visit Broadway.com for video coverage of the West End opening of Jersey Boys! Along with stars Stephen Ashfield, Philip Bulcock, Glenn Carter, and Ryan Molloy, you’ll see Bob Gaudio, Des McAnuff, Sergio Trujillo, and Frankie Valli!

Thank you to a West End fan for providing us with these fabulous photos of taxicabs promoting Jersey Boys on the streets of London!

The UK press has done overtime on Jersey Boys reviews! Below are this week’s latest: International Herald Tribune: …its scintillating stagecraft offers an object lesson in musical staging. Using the various levels of Klara Zieglerova’s set, pop art iconography helping to swiftly set the period, McAnuff keeps the four members of the group in a [...]

Broadway.com’s Matt Wolf has some interesting details about Ryan Molloy, who plays Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys’ London cast! The actor talks about his background, what it’s like to play the legendary Frankie Valli in JB, the audience’s reaction to the show, his vocal chops, the differences between the West End and the Broadway show, [...]

In The Observer today, Kathryn Flett, who is the daughter of Doug Flett, co-writer of Frankie Valli’s “Fallen Angel” in 1976, reflects on her father and the song that has found itself on center stage in Jersey Boys. I don’t really do theatre, but last week I was my father’s date for the first night [...]

The latest reviews from London in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and The Independent. Susannah Clapp, The Guardian: What’s more, it’s got a sharp book, and a far from weedy rags-to-riches story. Together with director Des McAnuff, Marshall Brickman (who collaborated with Woody Allen on Annie Hall) and Rick Elice have come up with a [...]

The Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons UK Enthusiasts and Historical Society has a terrific website dedicated to the group. The UK fans have spoken! Here’s a preview of the fans’ verdict: One of the key requirements of this show is the timing of delivery at special moments. Ryan achieved this to perfection with ‘Can’t [...]

More UK critical acclaim for Jersey Boys! Here’s the latest! From Philip Fisher, Western Mail: OH what a night! Jersey Boys is set to be a musical highlight of 2008 and quite possibly several years to come…Jersey Boys melds the Four Seasons back catalogue, with a rags-to-riches story that entertains and, at times, warms the [...]

Paul Callan of The Daily Express adored Jersey Boys, and so did the audience! The show, with its sharp edge and documentary style, stunned Broadway – and it did just that again on Tuesday night in London. The audience rose as one at the end of a show that brought memories flooding back to many. [...]

Visit GMTV to see the video of the London Jersey Boys singing “Sherry,” “Walk Like A Man,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” and “Bye, Bye Baby”!

WhatsOnStage.com has round-up of London critics’ Jersey Boys’ reviews. First night critics agreed that this “no-frills production” absolutely “deserves to thrive” and the music of The Four Seasons brings “sheer joy from start to finish”! Also, on Bloomberg.com, critic Warwick Thompson states that “it’s difficult to resist the joyous energy of the numbers…”

Jo Roberts London of TheAge.com asks: Do theatergoers in London and Melbourne care about a rags-to-riches story of four New Jersey street kids? The creators of a Tony award-winning Broadway musical are about to find out, one country at a time. Jersey Boys — the Story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, opened on [...]

Wow! Check out the amazing Whatsonstage.com video for arrivals and the curtain call of Jersey Boys at the Prince Edward Theatre and the post-show party at the Natural History Museum. This video includes with Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio and men who play them on stage–Ryan Molloy and Stephen Ashfield. Video also includes interviews with co-stars [...]

Here’s the latest from UK critics: From the Evening Standard: After those sagging lines of hagio-graphic tribute musicals to old rock’n’ rollers and bland bands, what a refreshing change to meet up with this Broadway triumph…Molloy exercises an arresting, powerhouse of a voice, that ascends from tenor to falsetto in emotional bounds and scores with [...]

Visit the Daily Mall for photo coverage of Jersey Boys’ Opening Night in London for photos of Frankie Valli and his sons, Bob Gaudio, JB cast members, and many celebrities!

Telegraph’s Charles Spencer says that Jersey Boys is a blue-collar, meat-and-potatoes, straight-up-no-chaser kind of show, and he means that as a compliment. The Four Seasons were always a group who appealed primarily to a blue-collar audience – “the factory workers and the truck drivers, the guy flipping burgers, and the pretty girl with rings under [...]

Benedict Nightingale from The Times states that there’s good reason why Jersey Boys is about to enter its third year on Broadway and is now crossing the pond. It has the character, the narrative interest and the sense of place – as the backcloth indicates, the industrial badlands west of the Hudson River – to [...]