Jersey Boys Blog

Watch the amazing video Youtube.com footage of the Jersey Boys cast singing “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” and “Who Loves You” at the Tony Awards telecast, and their recent appearance at the Shubert Alley “Stars in the Alley” event, where the cast gives an amazing performance singing the hits “Rag Doll,” “My Eyes Adored [...]

ROCKERS ON BROADWAY MONDAY, JULY 10, 2006 at 8:00 PM THE CUTTING ROOM–19 West 24th Street Jersey Boys’ cast members Donnie Kehr and Peter Gregus and Good To Go Entertainment proudly announce the 14th annual Rockers On Broadway , which will take place on Monday July 10th at 8:00pm at The Cutting Room (19 West [...]

Two weeks following the Tonys, Best Musical winner Jersey Boys rocked at the Broadway box office last week, grossing $1,026,049 (100.3% attendance rate) for the week ending 6/25/06. Broadway grosses totaled $18,641,038 (up over $500K from the previous week) for the 29 shows on the boards. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from Broadwayworld.com for [...]

Check out the Playbill.com photo of Jersey Boys stars Bobby Spencer and John Lloyd Young, along with cast members from The History Boys, during their backstage meeting with Bridge and Tunnel star Sarah Jones after her performance at the Helen Hayes Theatre this past weekend.

BroadwayWorld.com announced that J. Robert Spencer, currently starring as Nick Massi in this year’s Tony winner for Best Musical, Jersey Boys, is sponsoring a mentoring program for an aspiring male actor from the Red Bank Regional High School in Little Falls, New Jersey. The contestants submitted letters in response to the question “Why I Want [...]

BroadwayWorld.com reports that Jersey Boys director Des McAnuff has accepted a position as one of three Artistic Directors at Canada’s prestigious Stratford Festival, effective 2008. In a press conference held today in Canada, Antoni Cimolino, General Director of the Stratford Festival of Canada unveiled the next stage of the Festival’s new vision for artistic leadership. [...]

Gossip columnist Liz Smith reports that Broadway’s Best Musical Tony winner, Jersey Boys, can now boast that its original cast album is a smash. It sold more than any other previous Tony-winning cast album in the week after its win. Ticket sales also went through the roof!

This week’s Broadway Beat video features highlights with the stars of “Broadway Bares 16″ and also the 2006 Theatre World Awards, including interviews with Daniel Reichard & JLY.

Sioux City Journal staff writer Bruce R. Miller notes that Frankie Valli may be the most recognizable member of The Four Seasons but “Jersey Boys” is hardly a one-man show. Set to a driving, infectious beat, the stage biography gives ample time to the group’s other members, weaving a tale that’s both cautionary and laudatory. [...]

Daniel Reichard & JLY have a couple of scheduling updates on their blogs. Here are the details: Daniel Reichard will not be performing in Jersey Boys this Saturday or Sunday (June 24-25) as he will be in LA for Kelly Devine (the associate choreographer of JB and Ed Stone’s wedding. JLY will be on vacation [...]

Stephanie Queen, staff writer of the Bellevue Leader says that before “Jersey Boys” Tony Award-winning leading actor John Lloyd Young landed a breakout role on Broadway and, before he was even just a struggling actor in New York City, John Lloyd Young was just a Bellevue (Nebraska) kid in the mid-to-late 1980s dreaming of becoming [...]

NCTimes.com staff writer Pam Kragen had a chance to talk to longtime San Diegan Christian Hoff, who just last week won the Tony Award for his breakout performance as tough guy Tommy DeVito in the Tony-winning musical “Jersey Boys.” Hoff originated the role in the show’s 2004 world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse, and he [...]

The Winchester Star’s Teresa Dunham has written a wonderful story about J. Robert Spencer, who talks about his excitement starring as Nick Massi in Broadway’s Jersey Boys, his acting days at a Shenandoah University, his proud family and professors, and lots more. Dunham notes that J. Robert “Bobby” Spencer acted in four seasons at the [...]

BroadwayWorld.com reports that Ralph Bryan, President of the Board of Trustees of La Jolla Playhouse today announced that Artistic Director Des McAnuff will not be renewing his contract, scheduled to expire in 2007. He will continue with his current commitments to the Playhouse until April 2007 and will then assume a newly created position as [...]

NEWSFLASH!! BroadwayWorld.com reports that the Jersey Boys Broadway cast recording, produced by original Four Season Bob Gaudio on Rhino Records, is #1 on the Billboard’s Top Broadway Albums chart, and has moved up from #186 to #85 on the Billboard Top 200! In addition, Amazon.com reports the album is #1 in the “Broadway & Vocalists” [...]

Howell Binkley It doesn’t get much better than this! Here’s Howell Binkley displaying his Tony nomination certificate, as he was getting ready for Broadway’s Biggest Night! Then, Howell is posing with his Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical! Thank you to Howell Binkley and Leila Nelson for sharing these great photos! For [...]

If you’d like to see a bit more fanfare from last week’s Tony Awards, then you’ll find Broadway.com’s red carpet arrivals video to be a real treat! You’ll see stars, including Jersey Boys’ director Des McAnuff, and cast members Christian Hoff, J. Robert Spencer, and John Lloyd Young, chat about the big night!

BroadwayWorld.com provides photo coverage to “Broadway Bares 16: New York Strip.” It was a roaring success with a record-breaking $659,500 raised to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The evening featured 200 of the sexiest chorus boys and girls from Broadway’s biggest shows baring (almost) all. Check out pics of Jersey Boys cast members Dominic Nolfi, [...]

Jersey Boys Blog would like to wish Jersey Boys’ Daniel Reichard a Happy 28th Birthday!! Before starring as Bob Gaudio in Jersey Boys, both on Broadway and the La Jolla Playhouse, Reichard performed in several regional theatre productions, as well as Off-Broadway productions, such as Forbidden Broadway: 20th Anniversary Celebration, Radiant Baby, and The Thing [...]