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Visit BroadwayWorld.com for exclusive video coverage of John Lloyd Young and his Les Miserables castmates sharing their thoughts about being involved with this special production. Plus, you’ll get a sneak peek of “One Day More.”

Travis Cloer’s amazing new CD, “Setting the Standard” has been released! It was wonderful to chat with Travis about his thoughts and inspiration behind his latest recording project: This new CD is a project that I’m very proud of. It’s a collection of some of my favorite jazz standards along with some other tunes that [...]

Check out BroadwayWorld.com for extensive photo coverage of John Lloyd Young, Jennifer Naimo, and the entire cast of Les Miserables rehearsing in Los Angeles. For even more photos, visit JLY’s and Jennifer’s blogs.

After two straight weeks in the top spot, Jersey Boys Original Broadway Cast Recording slips to Number Two on the Billboard Top Cast Album Chart. This marks week #133 that the RIAA Certified Gold Grammy winner has remained on the chart.

Nick Massi’s oldest son, Bobby, holding his father’s artwork. By Audrey Rockman, Jersey Boys Blog Special Correspondent Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, A tale without much fuss. That started in the town of Union aboard a mini- bus The mate was a man named Gollender, The skipper quite excited, for sure. [...]

XM/Sirius Radio’s Phlash Phelps posing under the Four Seasons Lane sign!

NY1.com reports that a composer for Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons is suing EMI Publishing over the use of the tune “C’mon Marianne” in the Broadway musical Jersey Boys. Russell Brown and the daughter of his late partner, Raymond Bloodworth, are seeking $100,000 from EMI for not receiving royalties from the Tony award-winning show [...]

Check out Brian Scott Lipton’s Theater.com interview with John Lloyd Young! On August 8, he takes on the role of Marius in a star-studded concert version of Les Miserables at the Hollywood Bowl, alongside Brian Stokes Mitchell, J. Mark McVey, Lea Michele, and Ruth Williamson.TheaterMania spoke with Young before that show’s 10-day rehearsal period about [...]

Jersey Boys Broadway had another solid box office week! For the week ending July 27, 2008, the show grossed $1,129,029 and had a 100.8% attendance rate. The 27 shows on the boards grossed $18,725,752 for the week ending 7/27/08. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending July 27, 2008. Wicked [...]

BroadwayWorld.com reports that two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff will direct the first production of Guys and Dolls to open on Broadway in 17 years! It will open in the spring of 2009 at a Nederlander Theatre to be announced. With music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, [...]

Within the last year, the 1967 Four Seasons’ hit “Beggin’” (written by Bob Gaudio and Peggy Farina and peaking at #16 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart) has been, well, ubiquitous! First, there was the Pilooski re-edit that hit the London charts, then–the Norwegian rap group Madcon’s rap version of “Beggin’” was a chart-topper for five [...]

The multi-talented Travis Cloer has just completed his new CD “Setting the Standard.” It is a collection of some of the greatest vocal standards from the American Songbook, including “Moody’s Mood for Love,” “On the Street Where You Live,” “I’m Beginning to See the Light,” “In the Still of the Night,” “Cry Me A River,” [...]

For the second consecutive week, Jersey Boys Original Broadway Cast Recording remained in the top position on Billboard’s Top Cast Album chart. This marks the 132nd week that the 2007 Grammy winner has been on this chart.

Playbill.com reports that J. Robert Spencer will star in Arena’s Michael Greif-directed production of the musical Next to Normal, about a family affected by a mother’s mental illness and grief. Bobby will play the father, Dan. It will play November 21, 2008-January 18, 2009 at Arena’s temporary home in Crystal City, Virginia. Congratulations to Bobby [...]

Many of you know JBB Fantastic Fan Mike Magbaleta, who has been a frequent contributor to the Blog and Forum. Well, Mike emailed me about a situation that just occurred early last Friday morning at his twin son’s high school. For some sick reason, an individual or group of persons decided to torch a storage [...]

By Audrey Rockman, Jersey Boys Blog Special Correspondent It is just about time to get the show on the road for the third Old Neighborhood Mini-Bus Tour which explores the homes and haunts of former Four Season members around Jersey. Since there will be a couple of repeat offenders joining the tour for a second [...]

Jersey Boys Broadway continued its strong showing at the box office! For the week ending July 20, 2008, the show grossed $1,150,420 and had a 100.8% attendance rate. The 29 shows on the boards grossed $19,305,800 for the week ending 7/20/08. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending July 20, [...]

Playbill.com reports that John Lloyd Young, in addition to a host of other Broadway favorites — including fellow Tony Award winners Laura Benanti and Cady Huffman will perform at an upcoming concert to benefit the Ross School’s theatre programs. The August 18 event will be held at the Ross School’s Upper Campus in East Hampton, [...]