For the third consecutive week, Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording holds on to the Number Two position on the Billboard Top Cast Albums Chart. This marks the 121st week that the 2007 Grammy winner and RIAA Certified Gold recording has remained on the chart.
(more...)Check out Jennifer Naimo’s blog for wonderful photo coverage of the Jersey Boys’ 1,000th Broadway performance celebration that was held at the Palm Restaurant!
(more...)The Minnesota Twins have announced that the Jersey Boys national tour cast will sing the National Anthem at the Twins’ opening night game celebration on Monday, March 31. The game is scheduled to begin at 6:05PM.
(more...)Jersey Boys Blog is excited to feature the artwork of Tom Austin, who was a member of The Royal Teens. The Fieldstone Fine Art Gallery (147 E. Main Street in Ramsey, NJ) is currently presenting an exhibition of Tom’s beautiful artwork through April 30. Additionally, within the next couple of days, we are thrilled to [...]
(more...)Visit WCCO to listen to Zachary Prince and Steve Gouveia’s interview with Don Shelby that was recorded on March 18!
(more...)Matthew Amer, reporter for the Official London Theatre Guide, states Des McAnuff is no stranger to success. He has twice won the Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical, for The Who’s Tommy and Big River, and seen the success translate to London, winning the Best Director Laurence Olivier Award for Tommy in 1997. [...]
(more...)Visit Broadway.com for Bruce Gilkas’ photo coverage of Jersey Boys celebration of their 1,000th performance at the Palm Restaurant! Along with the cast members, you’ll see photos of the JB band, writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, actors Stephanie Block and Roger Rees, and the real Bob Gaudio and his wife Judy. Congratulations to Jersey [...]
(more...)Jersey Boys had a great “spring break” week at the Broadway box office! For the week ending March 23, 2008, the show grossed $1,116,266 and had a 100.7% attendance rate. The 30 shows on the boards grossed $20,789,933 for the week ending 3/23/08, climbing over 15% from the previous week’s totals. Below are the Top [...]
(more...)Tomorrow MONDAY MARCH 24th Daniel Reichard will be singing at Barnes and Noble at Lincoln Center for a promotional/educational event for CANDIDE. It starts at 7:30. It will feature myself, Lauren Wersham, and Jamie Bernstein (Leonard Bernstein’s daughter), singing a few songs from the show and discussing the show’s history. From April 8th to April [...]
(more...)Playbill.com’s Sheryl Flatow has a marvelous profile on Christopher Kale Jones, who has been wowing! audiences as Frankie Valli in the national tour of Jersey Boys since it began in December 2006. Here is a sample of the kinds of reviews Christopher Kale Jones has received for his portrayal of Frankie Valli in the first [...]
(more...)Telegraph’s Roya Nikkhah states that the musical Jersey Boys has made Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons the toast of the West End, winning them rave reviews and standing ovations. Yet the pop stars whose appeal in the Fifties and Sixties was their clean-cut image had links to the Mob, who helped them in their [...]
(more...)On March 22, 1975, Frankie Valli hit Number One on the Billboard Pop Chart with “My Eyes Adored You.” The song stayed in the top spot for one week and remained on the chart for 23 weeks. This song, written by the Four Seasons long-time producer and co-writer, Bob Crewe, and Kenny Nolan, was a [...]
(more...)Get your recorders and TIVOs ready! NBC will be re-airing the LAW AND ORDER episode “The Exectioner” that features Bobby Spencer this Saturday night!! Check your local listings for times.
(more...)According to Baz Bamigboye of The Daily Mail–Martin Scorsese wants it, so does Steven Spielberg and even Tom Hanks. They, and many other directors and producers, are after the film rights to the musical Jersey Boys. Big men are crying in their vodkas over this. Bob Gaudio, who penned most of the hits for Frankie [...]
(more...)Thanks to Al Pucino, George Juba & Jim Simmons for sharing their photos of the day. By Audrey Rockman, Jersey Boys Blog Special Correspondent It has been about three weeks since the first Four Seasons old neighborhood Tour and the interest just keeps building. This idea was born out of affection for the show and [...]
(more...)“Runaround Sue†rocker Dion (DiMucci) visited the boys of Jersey on March 12. The Bronx-born doo-wop, pop and R&B performer once headlined a quartet (Dion and the Belmonts) much like Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Visit Broadway.com to see the music legend hanging out with the Jersey Boys cast backstage at the August Wilson [...]
(more...)Visit GILG to listen to Part 4 of BBC’s “Jersey Beat: The Four Seasons Story”! The final installment features music from 1976 (including the big UK hit “Silver Star”–and some incredible cuts from the 1977 “Helicon” album) through the present and interviews with Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, Lee Shapiro, “Fallen Angel” co-writer Guy [...]
(more...)For the second straight week, Jersey Boys Original Broadway Cast Recording held the #2 spot on the Billboard Top Cast Albums chart. This marks the 114th week that the Grammy Award winner and certified gold recording has remained on the chart.
(more...)Visit BroadwayWorld.com to watch John Lloyd Young’s Broadway Beat interview! In this interview, the Tony Award-winning actor spoke about his Broadway debut in Jersey Boys, the excitement of his portrait being placed on the wall at Sardi’s and playing the Frankie Valli role for the first time in front of Valli himself.
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