Jersey Boys Blog

Mary Alderson of GrandBendStrip.com notes that back in August 2008, Aubrey Dan of Dancap Productions proudly brought the Broadway tour of the Tony-award-winning Jersey Boys to Toronto. He talked about the Canadian connection – the director was Des McAnuff (now artistic director of the Stratford Festival) and the choreographer was Sergio Trujillo, both of Toronto. [...]

Mark Andrew Lawrence of BroadwayWorld.com notes that the roar you hear every night at around 10:30 is not the wind. It’s the crowds cheering the new Canadian cast of JERSEY BOYS at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. This Tony-award winning musical sent its touring cast here last August but demand was so great that [...]

The ‘Jersey Boys’ cast features, from left, Quinn VanAntwerp, Jeff Madden, Jeremy Kushnier and Michael Lomenda (Photo: Brian Summers). Critics are raving about the new Toronto JERSEY BOYS cast! Here’s a preview of the latest reviews: Richard Ouzounian, The Star.com: Ouzounian gives the BOYS 4 out of 4 stars! In fact, the critic states that [...]

From Globe and Mail.com: Two seasons on, JERSEY BOYS is still packing them in at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. The musical’s national touring company departed for Pittsburgh last month and a mostly Canadian cast has now settled in – an occasion to revisit this fun, energizing show. Des McAnuff’s well-greased production continues to [...]

(Photo: Stan Behal/Sun Media) Toronto Sun Columnist John Coulbourn has an in-depth interview with Toronto’s Tommy DeVito–Jeremy Kushnier! According to Coulbourn, Kushnier is a Jersey boy through and through. Which is kind of strange, when you think about it, considering that Kushnier got his start in Winnipeg. Yet, as anyone who has caught Kushnier’s performance [...]

Many JERSEY BOYS cast members all over the map have been doing a great job keeping everyone posted on their blogs! Jersey Boys Toronto’s “Frankie” Jeff Madden’s “Taking the Wheel” blog is giving everyone an inside look into the Toronto JB experience! Some of my favorite posts include How I Got to Jersey, You want [...]

(Photo: NationalPost.com) In her Business, News & People column, Diane Francis has a feature on Aubrey Dan, a promising impresario who bought a small piece of Broadway smash “Jersey Boys” and brought it to Toronto for a sell-out run which is attracting 10,000 people a week. Francis notes that she has seen both productions and [...]

Jersey Boys Toronto will be appearing on CTV’s ‘CANADA AM’ Thursday morning, January 15th at 8AM!

NationalPost.com’s reporter Dave McGinn recently spoke with Jeremy Kushnier about his life in Toronto. Here’s a preview of the interview: From the ‘Peg to Hogtown: I’m originally from Winnipeg, but I moved out to Toronto when I was 18 or 19. Then I moved to New York when I was about 23. When I first [...]

Following Citytv’s countdown to 2009 and the Happy New Year fanfare, check out the Toronto Jersey Boys’ fantastic rendition of “Auld Lang Syne” (begins at 1:30 on the video)!

Hope everyone had the chance to watch Citytv’s streaming video of Toronto JERSEY BOYS’ spectacular New Year’s Eve performance! In case you missed it, here it is! Although the Toronto wind chill temperatures were said to be way below zero, the Toronto JERSEY BOYS were smokin’ HOT as they sang a terrific rendition of “Auld [...]

News from Citytv: The Toronto cast of JERSEY BOYS will be performing on Citytv’s New Year’s Bash, 2009!! Here’s the broadcast schedule: Citytv Toronto: Wednesday, December 31 at 10:30pm ET – 12:15am ET CitytvHD Toronto: Wednesday, December 31 at 10:30pm ET – 12:15am ET Citytv Winnipeg: Wednesday, December 31 at 10:30pm CT – 12:15am CT [...]

Playbill.com reports that Quinn VanAntwerp will replace Derek Krantz in the role of Bob Gaudio in the Canadian production of the Tony-winning musical Jersey Boys. Krantz, who played his final performance at the Toronto Centre for the Arts Dec. 21, has left the production “by mutual agreement with the creative team,” according to a press [...]

JERSEY BOYS is getting UBIQUITOUS on the “Best of 2008″ lists! The latest comes from Toronto! Canoe.ca has published 10 moments that they’ll remember from a busy theatre calendar in 2008: But the one that had us all really tapping our toes was Dancap’s production of The Jersey Boys: The story of Frankie Valli and [...]

Canada’s Jersey Boys, from left to right, Michael Lomenda (Nick Massi), Derek Krantz (Bob Gaudio), Jeff Madden (Frankie Valli) and Jeremy Kushnier (Tommy DeVito), re-enact the cover art from a Four Seasons album. (Photo: Colin McConnell/Toronto Star) Toronto Star’s Theatre Critic Richard Ouzounian has a terrific interview with the new “Frankie” in Toronto’s Jersey Boys–Jeff [...]

Canadian actor Jeff Madden is to play Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys. (Photo credit: Gary Goddard Agency) CBC News reports that a Canadian production of the hit show Jersey Boys opens Friday, December 12 in Toronto, with a new, mainly Canadian cast. Jersey Boys has been a hit for Dancap Productions, filling the huge Toronto [...]

Playbill.com reports that a mostly brand-new cast will step into the Canadian production of Jersey Boys beginning Dec. 12 at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. As previously announced, the Toronto engagement of Jersey Boys, which began performances Aug. 21, has been extended through Feb. 1, 2009. Jeremy Kushnier, who has been playing Tommy DeVito [...]

Photo by Joan Marcus. Stephen Johns of Torontoist.com has a terrific story on Joseph Leo Bwarie! According to Johns, Bwarie doesn’t walk into a room, he bounces in. Maybe that’s because he is living a dream, having worked his way into the enviable position of doing exactly what he loves best for a living. For [...]

Newsflash: This August, Jersey Boys made its Toronto premiere, and has electrified audiences at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, extending twice. Today Dancap Productions and Jersey Boys are pleased to announce that Jersey Boys will stay in Toronto with a permanent Canadian company. They will begin an extended run just in time for the [...]