Jersey Boys Blog

Camille Bounds of the Gilroy Dispatch asks: What makes a hit? What makes a musical a production that makes people want to spend their money and time to see a particular show? Answer: A group of gutsy, talented people that bring together a story and music that commands attention and lets the audience leave the [...]

Jersey Boys Blog is excited to present an interview with Jersey Boys national cast member Eric Gutman. Eric plays Hank Majewski, in addition to other roles in the show. He is also understudying for the Tommy DeVito and Bob Gaudio roles. Eric talks about how it all began for him; his love of performing from [...]

Daniel Reichard and John Lloyd Young will perform at the “Leading Men II” benefit concert for BC/EFA on Monday, February 5, 2007 at 7PM. The concert will take place at Birdland, located at 315 W. 44th Street in New York City. For more information, call (212) 840-0770 or visit the BC/EFA website.

BroadwayWorld.com reports that the national tour of Jersey Boys, which opened at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre on December 10th, has broken that theatre’s house record, according to Variety. So far, the musical has grossed $1,096,270. The national tour of Jersey Boys recently extended its stay in San Francisco with performances through March 25, 2007. Tickets [...]

Steven Winn of the San Francisco Chronicle highlights the incredible music of the sensational Broadway/national tour smash Jersey Boys, and the new movie Dreamgirls. In Jersey Boys, in addition to the new flick Dreamgirls, the audience gets swept through the business of show business (new French covers, a rigged talent contest) to tap the eternal [...]

Jersey Boys Blog is thrilled to present special correspondent Audrey Rockman’s review of Daniel Reichard’s “Christmas in Black and White” concert at the Metropolitan Room. As Bob Crewe says to Daniel’s Jersey Boys character- ‘the crowd goes wild… the crowd does go wild, doesn’t it?’ Yes… the sold out, intimate crowd of 90 at the [...]

Check out this 1967 video clip of Frankie Valli singing “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”

The thumbs-up, positive reviews keep popping up for Jersey Boys national tour in San Francisco. Check out what Variety.com has to say: Any fears that the popular appeal of Jersey Boys might dwindle with each mile’s distance from Hackensack were allayed by the first touring edition’s opening-night audience in San Francisco, which greeted the show [...]

BroadwayWorld.com has fabulous photo coverage of Daniel Reichard’s “Christmas in Black and White” concert that was held last night at the Metropolitan Room.

BroadwayWorld.com reports that the leads from Broadway’s hit Jersey Boys, will host the WE Network’s “3 Men and a Chick Flick” this Saturday night/Sunday morning, December 23 at 12:00am when WE broadcasts the film “Private Benjamin.” Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, J. Robert Spencer and John Lloyd Young will comment on the Goldie Hawn movie as [...]

In Playbill.com’s new feature “Cue & A,” John Lloyd Young fills us in on some random facts, backstage trivia, and pop culture tidbits. Below is a preview of what JLY had to say about himself: Audition Song: “Rags to Riches,” a pop tune by Adler and Ross Must-see TV Show: CNN, all day, every day [...]

Jersey Boys Blog’s latest feature, JBB Fantastic Fan Interviews has taken off over the last month, and we would like to thank Damaris Dugan and Howard Tucker once again for their amazing interviews! We are excited to present our third JBB Fantastic Fan Interview with Brian Lim, one of Jersey Boys younger fans, who tells [...]

Dan Taylor of the Press Democrat spoke to the legendary Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio about the Tony Award-winning Jersey Boys, which chronicles the rags to riches story of the Four Seasons. While the show takes its score right out of the solid gold Four Seasons songbook, its book is taken from the surprisingly dramatic, [...]

Jersey Boys had another fantastic week at the August Wilson Theatre, grossing $1,182,360 for the week ending December 17, 2006! The show also had the highest seating capacity of any show on Broadway–100.7%. For the week ending 12/17/06, Broadway box office grosses totaled $20,381,607 for the 32 shows on the boards. Below are the Top [...]

TONIGHT–John Lloyd Young will perform the national anthem at the Nets-Warriors game, which is scheduled to start at 7:30 PM at the Continental Airlines Arena.

Jersey Boys Podcast #30 has been released and includes Christy and Steve’s review of the Jersey Boys national tour San Francisco last preview performance; a short preview of “Come Si Bella” from Tommy DeVito’s new CD; and Part 2 of 2 of a recent radio interview with Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio from Ron Owens’ [...]

Daniel Reichard will present his “Christmas in Black and White” concert tomorrow night, December 18 at the Metropolitan Room. Reichard’s latest concert, described as “a throwback to those great old black-and-white television specials,” will feature a mix of standards and holiday tunes from the forties, fifties and sixties. The singing actor will be backed by [...]

Donald Munro of The Fresno Bee asked if all the hoopla about Jersey Boys is worth it? If you grew up with Valli and The Four Seasons and have a strong affinity for the music, quite possibly. Skillfully staged, briskly acted and reasonably well sung, Jersey Boys is more than just a standard-issue jukebox musical. [...]