Jersey Boys Blog

Variety.com’s Gordon Cox reports that the national tour of Jersey Boys will play from May through July at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. This is the second announced stop on the Jersey tour, which kicks off in San Francisco in December. Jersey Boys replaces the Berry Gordy Motown tuner Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, [...]

As reported earlier today, Jersey Boys broke another house record at the August Wilson Theatre, grossing $1,118,583 for the week ending 8/27/06 and an attendance rate of 100.7%! Box office grosses totaled $15,411,367 for the 23 shows on the boards. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending August 27, 2006: [...]

Jersey Boys’ Tony Award-nominated director Des McAnuff talks to BackStage.com’s Simi Horwitz about casting the national tour of Jersey Boys; preparing an updated production of The Wiz, which opens this fall at La Jolla Playhouse; and his upcoming transition from La Jolla Playhouse artistic director to his new position n artistic director of Canada’s Stratford [...]

Market Wire reports that BMI, the U.S. performing right organization, this week posted revenues of more than $779 million for its fiscal year 2005-2006, which ended June 30. In addition to highlighting BMI’s revenues, the article pays tribute to the more than 300,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers that the company represents, in addition to [...]

It’s another record-breaking week for Jersey Boys! This year’s Tony Award-winning Best Musical has set another new house record at the August Wilson Theatre grossing $1,118,583 (100.7% attendance rate) for the week ending August 27, 2006.

Thanks to everyone who responded to our request for suggestions for future Jersey Boys Blog poll questions! We received some great poll ideas that we’ll be using in the weeks to come. Our first new poll question comes from Lulu who suggested the following: What is your favorite WOW moment in Jersey Boys—the moment that [...]

Thank you to everyone who responded to the Jersey Boys Blog Poll: What’s your favorite Jersey Boys line? We had a tremendous response with 250 votes, and it was a close race with so many great lines!! Out of the 250 people who responded, 45 said their favorite line was: “I’m not drawn to the [...]

Jersey Boys Blog wishes Jersey Boys co-writer Marshall Brickman a Happy Belated Birthday! Marshall celebrated his 65th birthday yesterday. Brickman was born in Brazil to American parents. While still in his teens, Brickman was a member of the Tarriers, a group which also included future actor Alan Arkin. He paid his way through college as [...]

EducationNews.org’s Michael F. Shaughnessy talked to Tony Award-winner John Lloyd Young about his success of playing the role of Frankie Valli on Broadway, and the role that the school library, teachers, mentors and LEARNING has had in his life. Here’s a bit of what JLY had to say: Q: How has your education prepared you [...]

Daniel Reichard will perform at Ars Nova on Friday, September 22 at 11:45PM. For ticket information, go to NYMF.org.

New York Times’ Seth Kugel notes that getting what you want when you visit New York City can take serious planning. These days, you can reserve most of the city’s most sought-after tables, theater seats and hotel rooms just a few months in advance. You can even pack them all into one glamorous, gluttonous, glorious [...]

TimesSquare.com provides video clip highlights from this year’s “Broadway Bares 16,” including a scene from the Jersey Boys’ skit and a short interview with John Lloyd Young.

Corine’s Corner has some great photos of Daniel Reichard’s “Glory Daze” concert at Joe’s Pub from last week.

In BroadwayWorld.com’s continuing series, “What’s on Your iPod?”–they recently checked in with Daniel Reichard. Here’s what he had to say: My taste in music is all over the place–just like my attention span! My iPod shuffles India Arie’s new album “Testimony” (truly amazing), the Talking Heads (fun wild times music), Edie Brickell’s “Volcano” (honest and [...]

Christian Hoff, Matthew Scott (for the vacationing Daniel Reichard), Bobby Spencer, and John Lloyd Young, along with the rest of the Jersey Boys cast will perform at the free outdoor concert event “Broadway on Broadway” on Sunday, September 10 at 11:30AM in Times Square. The event is described as “the quintessential New York City event: [...]

Singer-songwriter, producer, arranger Denny Randell first rose to fame in the ’60s for a wealth of now immortal hits including many by Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons. Three of Randell’s songs for the legendary group–”Workin’ My Way Back To You,” “Opus 17,” and “Let’s Hang On (To What We’ve Got)” — are featured in [...]

Jersey Boys Blog was thrilled to find out that we were included in an article published in AssociatedContent.com, The People’s Media Company entitled, “Ten Blogs About Theatre: Good Sources of Info on Broadway and Beyond.” In addition to JB Blog, the list includes high quality blogs such as The Broadway Pulse, Blogway Baby, Cues, and [...]

Christian Hoff has announced on his blog that he has found time in the JB schedule to take a short vacation from August 22 to August 27. Christian has also provided a great photo of himself, Daniel Reichard, Bobby Spencer, and John Lloyd Young in the dugout at Yankees Stadium, where they sang a knockout [...]

As reported earlier today, Jersey Boys broke another house record at the August Wilson Theatre, grossing $$1,105,859 for the week ending 8/20/06! Additionally, for the second straight week, JB had the highest seating capacity of any show on Broadway: 100.5%! Box office grosses totaled $15,502,145 for the 23 shows on the boards. Here are the [...]