For the fourth straight week, JERSEY BOYS Broadway had the highest attendance rate on Broadway–101.1% and grossed $1,126,088 for the week ending August 23, 2009! The 20 shows on the boards grossed $17,882,289, with a decrease of 5.75% from the previous week’s totals. . Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week [...]
(more...)From BroadwayWorld.com: The Broadway production of JERSEY BOYS will perform an additional performance on Sunday, August 23 at 8pm to benefit The Actors Fund. All of the actors’ salaries and all of ticket sales will be donated to The Actors Fund benefiting people in film, theater, television, music, opera, and dance. Visit Telecharge.com to purchase [...]
(more...)From BroadwayWorld.com: For the week of 8/16/09, the Grammy-winning JERSEY BOYS Original Broadway Cast Recording tops the Billboard Top Cast Albums chart for the SIXTH straight week! This marks the 187th consecutive week that the RIAA Certified Gold recording has remained on the chart.
(more...)KTNV Reporter Jessica Lovell goes behind the scenes of “Las Vegas Celebrates the Music of Michael Jackson,” which is co-produced by Erich Bergen. You’ll get a preview as the Las Vegas cast of JERSEY BOYS rehearses the Jackson 5 classic, “I’ll Be There,” which features a new arrangement by Steve Orich. The song is one [...]
(more...)(Photos 3 & 5: Joan Marcus; Photo 4: Eric Draper) Picture this: Sunday, July 12. A perfect summer early evening in Chicago, at an outdoor café following front row Rush tickets to one of the most spectacular JERSEY BOYS shows we’ve ever seen! A little tea, a little wine, the sounds of the city in [...]
(more...)From BroadwayWorld.com: For the week ending 8/9/09, the Grammy-winning JERSEY BOYS Original Broadway Cast Recording tops the Billboard Top Cast Albums chart for the fifth straight week! This marks the 186th consecutive week that the RIAA Certified Gold recording has remained on the chart.
(more...)Sebastian Arcelus Broadway.com’s Kathy Henderson has a wide-ranging Q&A segment with JERSEY BOYS Broadway’s Bob Gaudio–Sebastian Arcelus. Sebastian talks about his background, returning to JB, musicals, his marriage to Stephanie J. Block, the blending two busy stage careers, and more. Here’s a preview: Q: How does it feel to be back in Jersey Boys after [...]
(more...)From BroadwayWorld.com: For the week ending 8/1/09, the Grammy-winning JERSEY BOYS Original Broadway Cast Recording tops the Billboard Top Cast Albums chart. This marks the fourth straight week that the RIAA Certified Gold recording has remained at #1, along with the 185th consecutive week on the chart.
(more...)Jason Drew interviews Dominic Nolfi backstage at New York City’s August Wilson Theatre. Dominic talks about his accomplishments and challenges as an actor, along with an amazing behind-the-scenes look at JB! Visit ap-red.com for the full video interview with Dominic!
(more...)Photo Credit: http://www.ogunquitplayhouse.org By Priscilla Florindi, JBB Special Correspondent Saturday at the ‘beautiful place by the sea’, better known as Ogunquit, Maine, we were awed by the production of Guys & Dolls at the Ogunquit Playhouse! Ogunquit Playhouse is “America’s Foremost Summer Theatre” of the Northeast! The Playhouse consistently contracts Broadway actors, and this season [...]
(more...)Thank you to Linda SooHoo for the wonderful photo coverage of the latest JB fan gathering celebrating John Lloyd Young’s appearance at the Help is On Its Way Benefit!
(more...)Photo Credit: Peter James Zielinski at BroadwayWorld.com. Also check out BroadwayTV for a video featuring a short interview with Jarrod Spector and video coverage of Jersey Boys’ performance at Broadway in Bryant Park, in addition to a second video with the JB producers!
(more...)Robert Sokol on ebar.com has a marvelous interview with Tony Award-winner John Lloyd Young, who will be performing this Sunday in the Help is On Its Way Benefit in San Francisco. JLY is slated to guest on Fox’s Glee in the fall, and just wrapped the title role in the indie comedy Oy Vey! My [...]
(more...)JERSEY BOYS Broadway is performing at “Broadway in Bryant Park” at 12:30pm TODAY! Come sit back and enjoy the hit tunes! Check out BryantPark.org for more details! For anyone attending–we’d love for you to share details with Jersey Boys Blog readers!
(more...)In Part Three of Bob Gaudio’s fabulous “Undercover†interview with Paul Cashmere, Bob talks about working with music legends such as Frank Sinatra, Neil Diamond, Barbara Streisand and Michael Jackson, in addition to meeting and working with his wife, Judy.
(more...)In Part Two of Bob Gaudio’s fantastic “Undercover” interview with Paul Cashmere, Bob talks about the process of writing and releasing songs such as “Rag Doll,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” writing for other artists, and the concept album, “Genuine Imitation Life Gazette.”
(more...)JERSEY BOYS Broadway remained hot at the summer box office. Last week, the show grossed $1,147,932 and had a 101.2% attendance rate for the week ending July 19, 2009. The 23 shows on the boards grossed $19,917,130, up over 2.5% from the previous week. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week [...]
(more...)This is Part One of Bob Gaudio’s fabulous “Undercover” interview with Paul Cashmere! Bob talks about watching the Jersey Boys story unfold; the accuracy of the stage show; Joe Pesci’s involvement in getting Gaudio into the Four Seasons’ Tommy’s role in the band; his first successful song with The Royal Teens–”Short Shorts”; getting his high [...]
(more...)The Jersey Boys national tour Four Seasons: Steve Gouveia (Nick Massi), Joseph Leo Bwarie (Frankie Valli), Josh Franklin (Bob Gaudio), and Matt Bailey (Tommy DeVito) [Photo credit: Joan Marcus] Jenna Scherer states that it’s never easy to play a legend. It’s even harder to play a living one. But Emerson College alum Joseph Leo Bwarie, [...]
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