MAJOR NEWSFLASH!! The 49th Annual Grammy Awards were announced today and Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording has been nominated for the Best Musical Show Album! Below are the details and the other nominees: Best Musical Show Album Nominations (Award to the Album Producer(s), and to the Lyricist(s) & Composer(s) of 51% or more of a [...]
(more...)Check out photos of Jennifer Naimo and Michael Longoria at the “Tisch on Broadway” gala event on Broadway.com and BroadwayWorld.com. The event was held December 4 at the St. James Theatre and was mc’d by NYU Tisch School of the Arts grad Billy Crystal.
(more...)Karen D’Souza of the Mercury News has a great interview piece with Jersey Boys’ director Des McAnuff and book writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Ellis. Jersey Boys, the 2006 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, kicks off its national tour Sunday at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre. The director and the writers talk about how the [...]
(more...)The latest Jersey Boys Podcast has been posted. This edition includes the following content: Jersey Boys singing the National Anthem at the New York City Marathon; Christy’s interview with Jennifer Naimo; and Part 1 of 2 of a radio interview with Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio on Ron Owens’ KGO 810 radio show which is [...]
(more...)BroadwayWorld.com reports that the theater community raised $2,992,800 during the six-week fall fundraising period for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The figure was announced during the finale of the 18th Annual Gypsy of the Year Competition, the yearly variety show for various Broadway and off-Broadway casts, which was held on December 4 and 5 at the [...]
(more...)NEWSFLASH: Playbill.com reports that the cast of Jersey Boys will perform in Times Square as part of ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2007″ December 31. Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest will host the special from New York on the eve of the New Year, starting at 10 PM (ET). Check local listings.
(more...)Check out this Youtube.com video clip of Frankie Valli singing “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” on the Mike Douglas Show in 1967!
(more...)While much of Broadway saw some post-Thanksgiving box office dips, Jersey Boys remained the hot Broadway ticket, grossing $1,181,879 for the week ending December 3, 2006. Also worth noting, Jersey Boys was the ONLY sold-out show on Broadway last week, with 100.8% attendance rate! For the week ending 12/3/06, Broadway box office grosses totaled $19,877,631 [...]
(more...)Jersey Boys Blog is excited to present Part Two of this week’s JBB Fantastic Fan Interview with Howard Tucker ([email protected]). In Part Two, Howard shares his thoughts on his love of the Four Seasons music and his passion for Broadway theatre! The Four Seasons JBB: You’ve been a Four Seasons fan since “Sherry†hit the [...]
(more...)Jersey Boys Blog is thrilled to present another JBB Fantastic Fan Interview! This week, we are featuring a two-part interview with one of Jersey Boys’ and the Four Seasons’ biggest fans, Howard Tucker ([email protected]). In Part One, Howard shares his thoughts on Jersey Boys, and what keeps bringing him back again and again to this [...]
(more...)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, [...]
(more...)Tommy DeVito has a new CD entitled “A Man of All Seasons: 1st Season, Summer” that features Italian folk and similar-style instrumentals. It is available for purchase on Tommy’s website: tommydevito.com.
(more...)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 [...]
(more...)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 [...]
(more...)In a recent interview with the Kansas City Star, former Oklahoma Sooners and Dallas Cowboys football coach Barry Switzer talked about his retirement, and suprisingly the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys. Switzer noted that he saw Jersey Boys last week on Broadway and stated, “Let me tell you something, this is the best Broadway [...]
(more...)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!
(more...)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 [...]
(more...)On this week’s “Broadway Beat,” you can catch scenes and interviews with Jersey Boys national tour cast members Erich Bergen (Bob Gaudio), Christopher Kale Jones (Frankie Valli), Michael Ingersoll (Nick Massi), and Deven May (Tommy DeVito). In addition, you’ll see interviews with director Des McAnuff and choreographer Sergio Trujillo.
(more...)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!
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