Jersey Boys Blog

Variety’s Gordon Cox reports that Broadway grosses registered a predictable winter slump for the week ending 2/5/2006, falling $1,611,871 to $13,234,552 for 25 shows. But the good news is this: that’s still more than the approximately $11.5 million average the session has earned the last three years. Among the few productions that didn’t see a [...]

Omaha World-Herald staff writer Bob Fischbach provides readers with a glimpse of John Lloyd Young’s childhood in Bellevue, Nebraska, where his acting ambitions and dreams began, his seven years as a struggling actor, and his Broadway debut playing Frankie Valli in this season’s megahit, Jersey Boys. Young says his acting ambitions began in the late [...]

In Jersey Boys, we’re introduced to Bob Crewe (played by Peter Gregus), the flamboyant, horoscope-obsessed song writer/record producer who helped to put the Four Seasons on the road to chart topping success in the 1960s. Crewe has had a very illustrious career as a musician, songwriter, record producer, and artist. Bob Crewe was inducted into [...]

San Diego Union-Tribune theater critic Anne Marie Welsh made a recent trip to the Big Apple to experience a sampling of Broadway and off-Broadway productions. Welsh notes that the Broadway season so far has proved that unpredictable, with just one bona fide (and artistically deserving) hit opening since August, the La Jolla Playhouse-spawned Jersey Boys. [...]

Broadwayworld.com reports that the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), whose annual three-week celebration has premiered more than 70 new musicals in the past two years, will present a one-night-only benefit concert, The Best of Fest Bash, on Monday, February 27, 2006 at Dodger Stages (340 W. 50th St.). Showtime is 7 p.m. Directed by [...]

Broadwayworld.com announced today that all sorts of bear stars will come out for Broadway Bears IX on February 12, 2006 at the B. B. King Blues Club & Grill (237 West 42nd Street). Hosted by Bryan Batt (La Cage aux Folles, Beauty and the Beast), the evening will continue in the Broadway Bears tradition of [...]

This Just In: The Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording was Number 2 with a BULLET on last week’s Billboard Magazine’s Top Broadway Albums chart. Billboard’s Top 3 Broadway Albums: Wicked JERSEY BOYS Mama Mia!

Joanna Parson from ActorsLife.com has done an outstanding in-depth interview with Jersey Boys’ John Lloyd Young. Parson talks to Young about his incredible success in his Broadway debut playing Four Seasons’ legendary lead singer Frankie Valli; the immense responsibility for carrying such a hit on Broadway; his career path that led him to the big [...]

J. Robert Spencer, who plays Nick Massi in the smash hit musical Jersey Boys, tells UPI that the script for the Broadway smash musical was based on actual interviews with Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Spencer, however, was the only lead in the production who was unable to talk to the real-life guy he [...]

Broadwayworld.com announced that Seth’s Broadway Chatterbox will showcase three cast members from the hit show Jersey Boys on Thursday, February 2nd at 6PM. Peter Gregus, who plays flamboyant, horoscope-obsessed record producer Bob Crewe, J. Robert Spencer, who plays original Four Seasons member Nick Massi, and Titus Burgess, who plays a number of roles throughout the [...]

Jersey Boys’ Christian Hoff is making his debut on the Emmy Award- winning daytime soap All My Children this week. Hoff has been cast in the recurring role of “Marty,” who works for character Zach Slater’s casino as a henchman. If you’d like to check out Hoff’s debut on the soap, check out the great [...]

Considering it’s been pretty quiet on the Rialto since all the holiday tourists have gone home, New York Post’s Michael Reidel took advantage of the lull to chat with half a dozen theater insiders to get a sense of how the second half of the 2005-2006 theater season might shape up. Reidel gives a rundown [...]

Broadwayworld.com reports that Broadway’s smash hit musical, Jersey Boys will celebrate their 100th performance tomorrow evening, February 1. The book, written by Marshall Bricman and Rick Elice, chronicles the lives of a group of blue-collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks who, as Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, became one of the [...]

According to Variety’s Gordon Cox, Broadway’s midwinter blues don’t seem so blue this year! Box office totals rose some $700,000 over the previous week, bringing in $14,846,423 for 26 shows on the boards. To no one’s big surprise, Jersey Boys continued to bring ‘em in at the box office! For the week ending 1/29/06, Broadwayworld.com [...]

In today’s edition of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Mike Weatherford provides an in-depth feature on the number of Broadway musicals making their way to the Strip. Within the feature, Weatherford highlights the current and possible shows coming to Vegas: Hairspray previews begin February 6 at the Luxor; The Phantom of the Opera previews are scheduled [...]

According to today’s Variety, Broadway box office totals suffered from its usual seasonal slide last week. Rialto grosses for Week 34 (Jan. 16-22) totaled $14,167,168, down about $1.5 million from the previous week, although still a healthy $2 million above the take from the same time last year. Nearly all of the 25 shows on [...]

Playbill’s Robert Simonson reports that Jersey Boys co-author Rick Elice attended opening night this evening for Bridge & Tunnel, the solo show starring Sara Jones at the Helen Hayes Theater. Elice said, so far, he hasn’t collected a dime on the Jersey Boys smash he wrote with Marshall Brickman, but he’s bracing for a windfall. [...]

Broadway.com’s Cara Joy David reports that the Tony Awards Administrative Committee made the second eligibility decisions of the 2005-2006 season on January 26. Among other decisions, the Tony Awards Administrative Committee decided which actor would be eligible in which category. The typical rule of thumb for acting nominations is above-the-title billing means a person is [...]

In today’s issue of the Jersey Journal, Jeff Theodore talks with Broadway’s “biggest new star,” John Lloyd Young, who is making his debut playing Frankie Valli in the smash hit musical Jersey Boys. Although Young is a newly minted superstar on the Great White Way who has received rave reviews and since Jersey Boys’ opening [...]