Jersey Boys Blog

News from BroadwayWorld.com: JERSEY BOYS Original Broadway Cast Recording topped Billboard’s Top Cast Album chart for the week ending December 5, 2009. This marks the 203rd straight week that the Grammy Award-winning recording has remained on the chart. In addition to the Number One ranking on the Top Cast Album chart, the JERSEY BOYS OBCR [...]

It’s been a while since we’ve done a poll! We’d love to see which JB scene is your favorite!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!! I hope this shamelessly jolly self-promotion finds you happy and healthy. Below you can find details on my upcoming Christmas concert! Broadway Stars, New York City Celebs, A Band of Eight, Four Perky Carolers, Yours Truly, Santa Claus, and hopefully YOU will all be benefiting the incredible human relief organization, International Partners in [...]

Emily Cary of The Washington Examiner has a terrific interview with JERSEY BOYS orchestrator Steve Orich, who had moved from New York to California to focus on scoring films and television when music director Ron Melrose called to alert him about a little musical La Jolla Playhouse was mounting and suggested that he might be [...]

Big December News! Daniel Reichard, one of the original stars of Broadway’s megahit JERSEY BOYS, returns to the New York City concert stage in his new show “Daniel Reichard’s Gettin’ on the Good List” at the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theatre (405 West 55th Street). In the spirit of old-fashioned Christmas variety specials, “Gettin’ on the [...]

News from BroadwayWorld.com: JERSEY BOYS Original Broadway Cast Recording slipped to Number Two on Billboard’s Top Cast Album chart. This marks the 201st straight week that the Grammy Award-winning recording has remained on the chart.

By David Cace If one were to have asked me the following question before Sunday October 25, 2009: When is a request not really a request? My answer would have been: An “offer you can’t refuse” from Marlon Brando. In reply, one might ask: What about a “Royal Command Performance”? Depends on who the “Royalty” [...]

THIS JUST IN: J. Robert Spencer will be appearing TONIGHT, 11/18/09 on LAW AND ORDER S.V.U.! He will be in scenes with Ice T and closing the show with Chris Meloni and Mariska Hargitay. The show airs at 9:00 PM EST. Check local listings for times.

The stars are definitely in alignment today–as not one–but two Jersey Boys geniuses are celebrating their birthdays!! We wish Jersey Boys co-writer Rick Elice a very Happy Birthday today! How did the Jersey Boys project happen? Rick Elice and Marshall Brickman were looking to do something together. As luck would have it, friends had arranged [...]

From Playbill.com: The JERSEY BOYS national tour cast will perform a benefit concert for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS TONIGHT in Washington, DC. The evening, which is titled, “Rock Like a Man,” will feature the cast of the hit musical performing classic rock ‘n’ roll tunes. Expect songs originally recorded by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, [...]

(Photos by: JBB Tech Half) A Sunday Kind of Love in the Old Neighborhood! Yes, during our NYC visit last month, the JBB Tech Half and I had the marvelous opportunity to take a side trip to Jersey–with the Four Seasons Old Neighborhood Tour coordinator extraordinaire, Audrey Rockman! We were all over the map, like [...]

News from BroadwayWorld.com: The RIAA Certified Platinum, Grammy-winner has done it again this week! JERSEY BOYS Original Broadway Cast recording remained at Number One on the Billboard Top Cast Albums Chart for the week ending November 14, 2009. This marks the 200th consecutive week that the recording has remained on the chart!

(Photo Credit: Mark Seliger) The new musical THE ADDAMS FAMILY, based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams, will make its pre-Broadway world premiere in TONIGHT in Chicago. The musical features a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, in addition to choreography by Sergio Trujillo! Preview performances [...]

Back in July, following our Chicago JB experience, Tech Half and I “rediscovered” JERSEY BOYS in the Windy City. Could we rediscover it again in New York, three months later? It could happen. It did happen! Picture this: A conference in Queens beginning on Friday, October 23. A red-eye from Vegas landing early Thursday morning–and [...]

In a producing climate where surviving four seasons can be looked at as a success, JERSEY BOYS has just celebrated its fourth year on Broadway, and has set up shop in six other cities around the world. Visit NY1.com to check out Donna Karger’s great video segment on JERSEY BOYS, which includes interviews with Bob [...]

Oh, What a Week–JERSEY BOYS Broadway celebrated their four-year anniversary yesterday; the cast performed at the New York Yankees World Series championship celebration at City Hall; and according to BroadwayWorld.com, the Grammy-winning, RIAA Certified Platinum Original Cast Recording remained at Number One on the Billboard Top Cast Albums chart for the week ending November 7, [...]

News from BroadwayWorld.com: Tune in to NY-1′s “On Stage” this weekend to watch a segment on the global success of the smash hit JERSEY BOYS. The Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning musical is playing to sold-out houses on three continents with seven productions worldwide: New York, London, Toronto, Melbourne, Las Vegas, Chicago and the US [...]

On Monday, November 30 from 6PM to 8PM, join the Chicago JERSEY BOYS cast at Sidetrack (3349 N. Halstead) for an evening of harmony at their cabaret benefit for the Test Positive Aware Network (TPAN) and Broadway Cares/EFA! After more than two years, 951 performances, and thrilling more than a million theatergoers, JERSEY BOYS is [...]

Joel Markowitz of DC Theatre Scene has a fabulous in-depth Q&A with Joseph Leo Bwarie and Matt Bailey, who play legends Frankie Valli and Tommy DeVito in the national tour Jersey Boys now at The National Theatre in Washington, DC. The actors talk about their roles, their training and careers, their JB auditions, and more. [...]