Jim Beckerman of NorthJersey.com has a terrific feature about Tom Austin, former member of the Royal Teens with Bob Gaudio, who is now a successful artist. According to Beckerman, Tom Austin has come a long, long way since “Short Shorts.” Remember “Short Shorts”? If you weren’t around in 1958, when the Royal Teens shot to [...]
(more...)By Catherine Sanneman and Howard Tucker, JBB Special Correspondents We are all thrilled to learn that Ed Feldman and Tom Barton’s “Tell Me How You Love the Picture,†the audiobook narrated by our own Christian Hoff with his world-record 241 voices, has just been nominated for 2007 Audiobook of the Year by ForeWord Magazine, one [...]
(more...)Visit GILG to listen to Part 2 of BBC Radio’s “Jersey Beat: The Four Seasons Story!” Part 2 includes interviews with Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, songwriter Denny Randell, and former 4 Seasons member and arranger Charles Callello. This segment includes some fascinating behind the scenes stories of some of the Seasons’ biggest hits!
(more...)Rhino Records has scheduled the Jersey Babys: The Music of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons for Kids CD for release on April 15! As reported earlier by Charles Alexander, it contains new instrumental versions of the Seasons’ biggest hits, from “Sherry” to “December 1963 (Oh, What a Night).” While the arrangements are aimed at [...]
(more...)Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording has slipped to No. 3 this week on the Billboard Cast Album chart. The 2007 Grammy Award winner has spent 112 consecutive weeks on this chart and has recently been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
(more...)Playbill.com reports that Tony Award winners Joe Mantello and Richard Greenberg will reteam for a Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hart’s Pal Joey presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company at Studio 54. Mantello, who earned a Tony Award for his direction of Greenberg’s Take Me Out, will direct the classic musical, which is scheduled to [...]
(more...)In Act One of Jersey Boys, before becoming The Four Seasons, the guys are singing background for Bob Crewe’s other artists in the recording studio. Among those singers featured is the Hal Miller character, singing “An Angel Cried” (written by Bob Gaudio). In 1961, Hal Miller and The Rays recorded that song on the Topix [...]
(more...)By Howard Tucker, Jersey Boys Blog Special Correspondent On Saturday, March 1, actor, singer/songwriter, and author Michael McGlone (www.michaelmcglone.com) was a guest of Fantastic Fans Pamela Singer and Howard Tucker for the evening performance of Jersey Boys. The Actor Since his critically acclaimed debut as Patrick in Ed Burns’ masterpiece “The Brothers McMullen.†Michael has [...]
(more...)Jersey Boys was only one of two shows on Broadway that remained in the millionaires’ club last week. For the week ending March 2, 2008, the show grossed $1,056,150 and had a 95.2% attendance rate. Grosses in general slipped last week, totaling $14,835,793 for the 32 shows on the boards for the week ending 3/2/08. [...]
(more...)Photo courtesy of Audrey Rockman. This is another tough one to report on JB Blog! On her blog today, Jennifer Naimo has announced that she will play her final Jersey Boys performance on Easter Sunday, March 23, 2008. As you all know, Jennifer created the unforgettable role of Mary Delgado at La Jolla Playhouse and [...]
(more...)Photos courtesy of Charly O’Clarit, Lucy Rochetti, Audrey Rockman, and Vanessa Shyu. By Howard Tucker, Jersey Boys Blog Special Correspondent Travis treated both Jersey Boys fans and cast members to “The Power of Music†Monday night, derived from the show he headlined on the major cruise lines before joining Jersey Boys. Travis plays “Joe Pesci†[...]
(more...)Kathy Bartsche, an amazing Jersey Boys fan (who has contributed many photographs and Youtubes to JBB) recently emailed me to share her Jersey Boys nesting dolls art project! After my initial response of, “Wow! You did that???” I asked Kathy to share the photos and her inspiration behind this wonderful art project with everyone! By [...]
(more...)In case you missed it yesterday or would like to see a repeat performance, check out this video of Frankie Valli on Rachael Ray’s Show!
(more...)David Cote of the London Times has a marvelous feature about Jersey Boys’ London production at the Prince Edward Theatre. JB depicts four Italian-American youths from the mobbed-up industrial wasteland of New Jersey clawing their way to fame and fortune as the Four Seasons. It’s a jaunty rags-to-riches story with catchy songs such as Beggin’ [...]
(more...)After two consecutive weeks in the top spot, Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording drops a notch to Number Two on the Billboard Cast Album chart. The 2007 Grammy winner and recently certified Gold album has spent 111 weeks on the the chart.
(more...)David Finkle of Backstage.com provides a wonderful review of John Lloyd Young’s Allen Room debut solo concert. Here’s a preview: It was at these moments in the hourlong program that who Young is and could be even more of began to crystallize. Heretofore an actor as devoted to Chekhov as to showbiz glitter, Young has [...]
(more...)Visit GILG to listen to Part 1 of BBC Radio’s “Jersey Beat: The Four Seasons Story!” Part 1 includes interviews with Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio,Tommy DeVito, songwriter Denny Randell (co-writer of “Opus 17,” “Let’s Hang On,” and “Working My Way Back to You”), and former 4 Seasons member and arranger Charles Callello. For an extra [...]
(more...)Jersey Boys had a terrific week on Broadway! For the week ending February 24, 2008, the show grossed $1,134,688 and had a 100.7% attendance rate–up 4.1% from the previous week! Grosses totaled $17,910,138 for the 33 shows on the boards for the week ending 2/24/08. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the [...]
(more...)Photos courtesy of Linda Lenzi at BroadwayWorld.com.
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