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BroadwayWorld.com’s photo coverage of Jersey Boys National Tour opening in San Francisco is nothing short of amazing!

InsideBayArea.com’s Chad Jones notes that the national tour kick off of the Tony Award-winning Jersey Boys at the Curran Theatre consisted of one great high note after another! Here’s a bit of what Jones had to say: Seriously, who knew the story of how four goombahs from New Jersey became Frankie Valli and the Four [...]

Pat Craig of the Contra Costa Times describes Jersey Boys opening night as a heartwarming triumph: The standing ovation that followed the San Francisco opening night of the groundbreaking musical, “Jersey Boys” Sunday was spontaneous, heartfelt and well-deserved. It was immediately apparent this ovation was worlds different from the usual obligatory standing O’s that follow [...]

Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle’s theatre critic states that nostalgia carries Jersey Boys, at the Curran Theatre for a while, but show has more than just memories: “Sher-ree-ee-ee — ee-ya, bay-a-bee!” The faultless doo-wop harmonies of the Four Seasons and the soaring falsetto of Frankie Valli burst upon the house with an impact no less [...]

Modesto Bee arts writer Lisa Millegan talks to Christopher Kale Jones, who plays Frankie Valli in the national tour of Jersey Boys. Jones shares his insight on the music of the Four Seasons, the JB story written by Brickman and Elice, and his recent meeting with Frankie Valli. Regarding this year’s winner of the Tony [...]

BroadwayWorld.com has an update on the Jersey Boys rush policy at the Curran Theatre: Seats in the front row of the center orchestra will be available for $25 for every performance of Jersey Boys playing the Curran Theatre now through Feb. 11, 2007. The $25 tickets go on sale at the Curran Theatre box office, [...]

Ben Fong-Torres of the San Francisco Chronicle notes that only a year after opening in Manhattan to ecstatic reviews, winning over even the critics who’d come to dread what they called “jukebox musicals,” Jersey Boys is in San Francisco with a touring company and the same director, Des McAnuff, who staged it on Broadway. In [...]

San Francisco Chronicle’s Joel Selvin has an amazingly in-depth interview with the legendary Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio, the original Four Seasons who have been business partners for more than 45 years. The two men talk about their lives; their phenomenal success in the music business; and the Tony Award-winning Broadway smash hit Jersey Boys [...]

On a recent thread on BroadwayWorld.com’s message board, Erich Bergen has posted photos from Jersey Boys national tour’s tech rehearsals. Check them out!

Dayton City Paper’s Russell Florence, Jr. has a fascinating interview with Michael Ingersoll, who plays Nick Massi in Jersey Boys national tour. When Kettering native Ingersoll took on the starring role in a recent Chicago production of Tick, Tick… Boom!, Chicago Sun-Times critic Hedy Weiss offered a bit of sound advice that would inadvertently catapult [...]

In case you missed last night’s Jersey Boys national tour first preview, cast member Eric Gutman’s blog fills everyone in on last night’s performance; Thursday’s dress rehearsal; the previous weeks’ tech rehearsals; and so much more. It’s an amazing behind the scenes look at one actor’s extraordinary experience with Jersey Boys!

It’s less than an hour until the Jersey Boys national tour kicks off their first preview performance at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco! Monsters and Critics.com and The Daily Californian provide updates about the JB national tour on their websites this week. Jersey Boys Blog wishes the national tour cast and crew all the [...]

Richard Dobbs of the Bay Area Reporter provides an in-depth look at Jersey Boys, the 2006 Best Musical Tony Award winner that launches its national tour in San Francisco tomorrow. Ironically, director Des McAnuff, whose Broadway credits include Big River and The Who’s Tommy, summarily rejected the idea for a Four Seasons musical when writers [...]

The latest Jersey Boys Podcast has been released, which includes an interview with Erich Bergen, who will be playing Bob Gaudio in Jersey Boys national tour!

Jersey Boys Blog is excited to present an interview with Jersey Boys national tour swing cast member Taylor Sternberg! Taylor talks about what sparked his dreams to be a performer; what he’s done so far; how his improv training will help him in the many roles he’ll be playing in JB; and so much more! [...]

BroadwayWorld.com provides some incredible photo coverage of the Jersey Boys national tour press rehearsal that was held last week! Directed by two-time Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff, Jersey Boys will begin at the Curran Theatre in December, 2006 (previews begin December 1, opening night is December 10, and the production runs through February 11, 2007). [...]

Check out Theatermania.com’s photo of Jersey Boys director Des McAnuff, who was joined by the show’s Broadway leads — J. Robert Spencer, Daniel Reichard, Christian Hoff, and John Lloyd Young — for the unveiling of his caricature at Sardi’s. Also on Theatermania.com– another press day photo of Jersey Boys national tour stars Erich Bergen (Bob [...]

Playbill.com’s Ernio Hernandez provides extensive coverage of the November 9 press-invited preview of the Jersey Boys national tour company. The forthcoming national tour is currently rehearsing in NYC before its San Francisco launch in December. The article features interesting interviews with Des McAnuff; audition stories from the four actors who are playing the Four Seasons: [...]

Jersey Boys Blog is thrilled to present an interview with Jersey Boys national tour cast member Melissa Strom, who will be playing Francine (and other roles!) in the musical. Melissa talks about how it all began for her; what inspires her as an actress; her new journey as a cast member in the Jersey Boys [...]