Jersey Boys Blog

Meeting Jersey Boys cast members at last week’s Opening Night festivities was a blast! Many of the cast members have posted their thoughts and photos about the big night on their blogs! Check out posts from Eric Gutman, Jackie Seiden, Taylor Sternberg, and Melissa Strom! Also, check out this Youtube video that features Deven May [...]

It doesn’t get much better than this: Jersey Boys’ Opening Night and the After Party! Yes, Jersey Boys Blog had the most amazing opportunity to attend Opening Night at the Ahmanson Theatre on Sunday, June 3! Okay, picture this: Jet-setting to LA on a Saturday afternoon from Vegas, then seeing JB on Saturday night (Hey! [...]

You can’t leave your computer for more than a few hours without missing another sensational review highlighting Jersey Boys at the Ahmanson Theatre! Check out Travis Michael Holder’s thoughts on this incredible show: Not even the onstage recreation of Frankie Valli’s fingernails-on-the-blackboard falsetto could dissuade me from enjoying this show immensely and frankly, Christopher Kale [...]

Cristofer Gross of Blog Critics Magazine gives a thumbs-up to the Jersey Boys at the Ahmanson Theatre: Before music videos, when pop tunes were audio only, they nested in our imaginations with images and references gathered from the host brain. This heightened the intimacy of the songs and piqued our interest in the singers hidden [...]

CurtainUp.com’s Laura Hitchcock notes that in the LA production of Jersey Boys, what Des McAnuff brings to this saga of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons is a rare combination of dramatic flair with intuitive sensitivity to character and the ways in which people confront, control and are vulnerable to each other. Sergio Trujillo’s crisp [...]

Entertainmenttoday.net critic Brad Auerbach confesses that he was wrong about Jersey Boys! Imagine my surprise when this cynic was as enthusiastic as the rest of the opening night audience on Sunday. The performers are extremely engaging, the production is subtle yet effective and the book is engrossing. Like many of my era who were more [...]

Evan Henerson, Theatre Critic for the LA Daily News gives JB 3 1/2 stars! Here’s a preview of what Henerson said about this megahit: The Four Seasons springs from Tommy DeVito (Deven May), the group’s hustling, gambling-addicted leader who talks like Christian Slater and – we’re to understand – puts his own interests above the [...]

Jay Reiner of Reuters states that the best thing about “Jersey Boys” — last year’s Tony winner for best musical — is that it’s not just about the music of ’60s icon Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. And this is saying something in a show that features 33 songs, many of them soft-pop classics, [...]

Wow! Check out ET’s coverage of Jersey Boys’ rehearsals in LA!

Evan Henerson, Theater Writer for the Los Angeles Daily News recently spoke with original Four Seasons Bob Gaudio and Frankie Valli, along with co-authors Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice about the megahit Jersey Boys, which opens at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles TONIGHT! Here’s a sneak peek of this interesting piece: The difference between [...]

In a Special to the Los Angeles Times, Rob Kendt provides an in-depth article about Deven May, who stars as the slick, pompadoured wiseguy Tommy DeVito in the national tour of Jersey Boys. Though the Tony-laden show about the Four Seasons singing group does have “Boys” in the title, May, the versatile actor best known [...]

Ventura County Star columnist Jeff Favre states that in the early 1960s, a group of young dudes from New Jersey singing catchy four-part harmony became the top pop idols everywhere in the country except Southern California. That’s because the West Coast was and remains Beach Boys territory. Brian Wilson and his bandmates even delivered a [...]

This Just In: Jersey Boys National Tour will be featured on “Entertainment Tonight” this evening! Check local listings for details!

Paul Hodgins of The Orange County Register spoke to director Des McAnuff and pop icon Frankie Valli about why Jersey Boys is a hit. This blockbuster is a straightforward bio-play about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice with the blessing of Valli and the group’s songwriting genius, [...]

Eric Gutman has landed in L.A.! Check out his Tour This blog for all the details, including the incredible time he, Sara, and their dog Toby had traveling from SF to Carmel to Big Sur to Los Osos to Santa Barbara to Encinco, which will be their home for the next three months. Then, Eric [...]

Lea Lion of LADowntownNews.com states that most Americans of a certain age only need to hear a few notes of one of the Four Seasons’ many chart-topping songs to identify it. In the early ’60s, the pop group recorded its first platinum title, “Sherry,” followed by the big sellers “Big Girls Don’t Cry” and “Walk [...]

If you haven’t checked it out lately, you’ve missed some great posts by Eric Gutman on his Tour This blog. He fills us in on all the details of the tech rehearsals in New Haven, JB national tour’s last days in San Francisco, and he and Sara’s amazing wedding (including links to photos)!

Pat Craig of Contra Costa Times tells readers not to worry if you bought your tickets late — Jersey Boys remains the hottest, most harmonious ticket in town despite a complete cast change. According to Craig, the new cast, which took over the Curran Theatre production last Friday, has every bit as much talent, energy [...]

Theater Dogs blogger Chad Jones asks: Who knew we were all so hungry for Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons? Jones’ latest post answers that question. Last December, when the national tour of the Broadway hit Jersey Boys opened at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre, audiences whooped, hollered and screamed through the musical retelling of how [...]