Picture this–being stuck in Hawaii for a conference presentation–when you’d rather be updating your blog–just days before the Tony Awards. Yeah, I admit it–I would have rather been updating the Jersey Boys Blog, instead of attending the first night of conference activities. Prior to the evening’s conference reception, some colleagues suggested we meet for cocktails. [...]
(more...)Backstage.com reports that Tony Award-winner John Lloyd Young, in addition to Michael Cerveris, and Carol Kane will be among the many musical theatre performers to join the dogs and cats in need of adoption at the eighth annual “Broadway Barks!” event on July 8, from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Shubert Alley, between 44th and [...]
(more...)Tony Award-winner for Best Musical, Jersey Boys, had its best week yet at the August Wilson Theatre, grossing $1,038,228–a new house record! A total of 9,842 seats were filled (100.7% attendance rate). Post-Tony Broadway grosses totaled $19,513,802 (up over $193K from the previous week) for the week ending June 18, 2006 for the 31 shows [...]
(more...)The Tony Award-winning cast of Jersey Boys will join some of Broadway’s brightest at this year’s “Broadway Under the Stars,” a free public concert presented by Target. For the first time ever, this annual event will take place at Central Park’s Great Lawn on Monday, June 26th at 8:00pm. A fireworks finale will follow the [...]
(more...)Playbill.com reports that Jersey Boys’ Daniel Reichard will among the stars participating in a reading of Getting Married, the sixth installment in Project Shaw, will take place on June 19 at the Players Club at 7PM. Call (212) 475-6116 for more information.
(more...)Theatermania.com’s Brian Scott Lipton says if there was an award for Most Dramatic Moment on the Tony Awards, it would go to Christian Hoff’s win as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Jersey Boys. Reflecting on his honor, Hoff says, “It was a great surprise. We had just performed and they got me back [...]
(more...)Post and Courier reporter Dottie Ashley said she has always wanted to attend the Tony Awards, but has never had the opportunity. Last Sunday night, she settled for sitting in front of the television for the 2006 ceremony that aired on CBS from Radio City Music Hall. Ashley and her husband applauded wildly when Jersey [...]
(more...)Superstar Frankie Valli talks to Newsweek’s Nicki Gostin about Jersey Boys winning the Best Musical prize at the Tonys, his buddy Frank Sinatra, and…pasta. Here’s an except of the short interview: Gostin: Was it weird seeing your life story onstage? Valli: I’m on a cloud. We had been offered a couple of movies-of-the-week, but I [...]
(more...)New York Post’s Marianne Garvey says John Lloyd Young was sitting in his seat at Radio City last Sunday, waiting, hoping to hear his name called as the Tony Award winner for Best Actor in a Musical. Young’s father, Karl, also sat in the audience praying that his son would win for his role as [...]
(more...)Who doesn’t love an underdog? It might seem ironic in hindsight, what with all the repeated shout-outs and standing ovations, but last fall, that was the situation for this year’s best-musical Tony winner. Variety’s Gordon Cox and David Rooney note that Jersey Boys, a jukebox tuner about (what else?) scrappy little guys who go on [...]
(more...)In today’s New York Times’ “Your Money” column, longtime Wall Street executive Joseph J. Grano, Jr. is profiled. Had Mr. Grano not chosen Frankie Valli to entertain some Merrill Lynch stockbrokers back in the 1970′s, Joseph J. Grano Jr. would not have been on stage at Radio City Music Hall at the Tony Awards last [...]
(more...)ABC News has provided a transcript of this week’s “Person of the Week” segment featuring John Lloyd Young. Here’s an excerpt of the segment: A year ago John Lloyd Young was ushering theater fans to their seats; he’s now entertaining those theatergoers while celebrating his first Tony win for his role as Frankie Valli in [...]
(more...)Below are some upcoming Jersey Boys’ cast appearances: 6/18/06: Playbill.com reports that Broadway Bares 16, a funfraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, will take place on June 18, 2006 at the Roseland Ballroom at 9:30 PM and Midnight. Jersey Boys’ Dominic Nolfi, Daniel Reichard, J. Robert Spencer and John Lloyd Young will be among the [...]
(more...)BroadwayWorld.com News Desk reports that Michael Longoria, currently on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning Jersey Boys, will take the stage of the Metropolitan Room at Gotham (34 West 22nd Street, between 5th and 6th Ave.) on Monday, June 19 at 8 PM. There is a $15 cover and 2-drink minimum for Longoria’s show. Only those [...]
(more...)John Lloyd Young has had quite a week, to put it mildly! He won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Musical at the Tony Awards; the musical he stars in, Jersey Boys, picked up the top prize at this year’s Tonys; and he sung for the First Lady and Senate spouses at [...]
(more...)Broadway.com provides transcripts of the acceptance speeches of the 2006 Tony Award winners. Below are the moving speeches by Howell Binkley, Christian Hoff, John Lloyd Young, and JB Producer Michael David. Howell Binkley, Best Lighting Design of a Musical, Jersey Boys “Hey, first of all, Jersey Boys has been an incredible adventure I think for [...]
(more...)In today’s Las Vegas Review-Journal’s “Vegas Confidential” column, columnist NORM! said he has heard that Frankie Valli is redoubling efforts to return to Las Vegas because he’s energized by the success of Jersey Boys at the Tony Awards. Jersey Boys, the musical biography of Valli and the Four Seasons, won four Tonys, including best musical [...]
(more...)WRGB.com reports that John Lloyd Young’s first role was a Munchkin in a summer theatre production as a kid. His personal Yellow Brick Road has led him to Broadway, where last weekend he won a Tony Award for best actor in a musical for his portrayal of Frankie Valli in the megahit Jersey Boys. Yesterday, [...]
(more...)New York Post’s Michael Riedel said the jukebox musical lives. By bestowing the Tony Award for Best Musical on Jersey Boys, Broadway certified that shows built around old baby-boomer favorites – in this case, the songs of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons – are here to stay. So discredited was the form that last [...]
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