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BroadwayWorld.com provides spectacular coverage of this year’s Drama Awards’ celebration! Drama Desk Awards Arrivals: Including photos of John Lloyd Young, his girlfriend Alison Franck , his Mom, & sister; pics of Jersey Boys’ Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, J. Robert Spencer, and JLY; and photos of choreographer Sergio Trujillo and Jack Noseworthy; and JLY with Harvey [...]

Jersey Boys set another new house record at the August Wilson Theatre, grossing $1,025,695 (selling 9,763 seats/99.9% attendance rate) for the week ending May 21, 2006! Overall, the Great White Way saw total weekly grosses jump more than $1.1 million to a hearty $20,610,326 for the 36 shows on the boards. Here are the Top [...]

Jersey Boys Podcast has released the third in a series of several in-person interviews with Jersey Boys cast members. Tony-Award nominee Christian Hoff talks about his favorite part of Jersey Boys; what it’s like to play Tommy DeXito; how NYC is treating him; his first Broadway show experience; his favorite Four Seasons’ song, and much [...]

Broadway.com provides full photo coverage of the newly minted Tony Award nominees’ May 17 brunch with the press at the Marriott Marquis’s View Restaurant 46 floors above Times Square. Check out Jersey Boys’ photos on Pages 1, 45, & 48.

Daniel Reichard will be performing in a special benefit concert at 8pm TONIGHT at Joseph C. Caruso School, 81 Frances Place in Keansburg. Tickets to the event, which benefits fine arts education and events in Keansburg, cost $25 or $50. For tickets and more information, please call (732) 495-0808 or visit www.keansburgarts.com. Stay tuned to [...]

Theatermania.com provided a webcast of the Drama Desk Awards this evening and Jersey Boys took home two honors: Outstanding Actor in a Musical: John Lloyd Young Outstanding Sound Design: Steve Canyon Kennedy For a complete list of Drama Desk Award nominees and winners, check out BroadwayWorld.com. Congratulations to John Lloyd Young and Steve Canyon Kennedy!

It’s another big night for Jersey Boys–the Drama Desk Awards! The Drama Desk Awards will begin this evening at 9PM at the LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center. The ceremony will be taped and subsequently broadcast nationwide on PBS stations, and for the fourth consecutive year, the awards ceremony will be webcast by TheaterMania.com. Jersey [...]

In the latest issue of Variety, David Rooney notes that while there are 24 competitive categories to be decided when the 2006 Tony awards are announced June 11 and a number of them are wide open, the race that has Broadway insiders buzzing is the unpredictable duel between The Drowsy Chaperone and Jersey Boys for [...]

Daniel Reichard, a 2006 Drama Desk Award nominee for his portrayal of Bob Gaudio in the hit musical Jersey Boys, will perform a special benefit concert at 8pm TOMORROW, May 22 at Joseph C. Caruso School, 81 Frances Place in Keansburg. Reichard is the first performer in the Keansburg Arts Council’s new series. Tickets to [...]

For this week, Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording holds the Number 4 position with a bullet on Billboard’s Top Broadway Album Charts. Below are the Top 10 Broadway Albums for the week of May 20, 2006 from Billboard Magazine: Harry on Broadway Act 1/The Pajama Game Wicked Mama Mia! Jersey Boys The Color Purple South [...]

Sun-Sentinel.com’s Theater Writer Jack Zink reports that the shows have all opened, the Tony Award nominations are out, and Broadway has a neck-and-neck competition for its most-watched race. The Drowsy Chaperone, a tongue-in-cheek homage to old-fashioned musicals, has the lead in nominations but not necessarily the count against the slickest rock musical ever, Jersey Boys. [...]

BroadwayWorld.com’s Robert Diamond’s Q&A Session with Tony Award nominee Christian Hoff provides some great insight into Hoff’s amazing journey with Jersey Boys! Here’s a preview of what Christian had to say: Q: Who was the first of the ‘Boys’ that you spoke to this morning? A: I got a call from Bobby Spencer, who said [...]

A Jersey Boys Blog visitor said that former President Bill Clinton and his daughter Chelsea were in the Jersey Boys’ audience Wednesday evening. Check out John Lloyd Young’s blog for a backstage photo of Clinton with Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, J. Robert Spencer, and JLY.

For the fifth consecutive week, Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording remained at the Number 3 with a bullet on Billboard’s Top Broadway Album Charts. Here are the Top 10 Broadway Albums for the week of May 13, 2006 from Billboard Magazine: Wicked Mama Mia! Jersey Boys South Pacific The Color Purple Spamalot Hairspray Rent: Best [...]

Watch the new Jersey Boys Broadway video with J. Robert Spencer talking about the influence of the Four Seasons’ music on other artists throughout the decades. From the homepage, click on Media to watch the clip.

PR Newswire reports that a Walk of Fame honoring the lives and achievements of extraordinary performing artists who are associated with the Garden State and/or its institutions was unveiled at a public ceremony on Thursday, May 18th at 5pm on the Symphony Lawn in front of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Frankie Valli & [...]

DATE CORRECTION: Please note: Jersey Boys cast members will be appearing on the “Today Show” on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 (7am-10am EST), Katie Couric’s final day as host of the morning show.

Jersey Boys Blog had the amazing privilege to speak with Jersey Boys’ Tony-nominated Orchestrator Steve Orich, who has had an outstanding career as an orchestrator, composer, arranger, and musical director in a variety of mediums over the past 30 years. As I listened to Steve Orich and learned more about the orchestration process, it appears [...]

In this morning’s New York Post’s “Starr Report,” columnist Michael Starr reports that the cast of Jersey Boys did something last night that’s believed to be a first in Broadway history, leaving their show at intermission to perform elsewhere – which turned out to be CBS’ upfront presentation – then returning in time for the [...]