Broadway.com reports that Sebastian Arcelus has signed on to play Bob Gaudio in the Broadway cast of Jersey Boys, beginning January 10, 2008. Daniel Reichard, who originated the role, will play his final performance in the Tony-winning musical on January 9. Arcelus will join Tony winner Christian Hoff (Tommy DeVito) and J. Robert Spencer (Nick [...]
(more...)Here’s a home video of a medley of Four Seasons Christmas songs. Check it out!
(more...)For the 28th time, Jersey Boys broke the August Wilson Theatre house record for the grossing $1,367,780 (and a 100.7% attendance rate) for the week ending December 9, 2007! Total grosses for the week were $19,709,595 for the 34 shows on the boards for the week ending 12/09/07. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from [...]
(more...)In an article on KHNL.com, reporter Leland Kim noted that more than 180,000 people saw The Lion King at the Neal Blaisdell Center. It grossed close to $15 million, and pumped $45 million to the local economy. Mayor Mufi Hannemann said The Lion King’s success shows Hawaii can host a major Broadway musical. “Certainly this [...]
(more...)Following Jersey Boys’ national tour cast member Eric Gutman’s Tour This blog has been a blast over the last year. Well, Eric has posted BIG news this morning! After performance #390 this evening with the national tour, he will be leaving to join Jersey Boys on Broadway! Check out Eric’s JBB Exclusive Interview from last [...]
(more...)Thank you to Four Seasons’ historian David Cace for this amazing piece of 4 Seasons’ memorabilia!
(more...)SeattlePI.com’s Theater Critic Joe Adcock has an interesting interview with Jersey Boys’ co-author Marshall Brickman. According to Adcock, creating a stage musical is not, normally, hazardous. Maybe you deal with some dangerous characters. But Nazis likely are not going to come after producers of “Cabaret” or “The Sound of Music” just because those plays portray [...]
(more...)According to Playbill.com, for the second consecutive week, Rhino’s Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording holds the Number One position on the Billboard Cast Album Chart! Below are the Top 5 Cast Albums from Billboard: Jersey Boys Wicked Legally Blonde The Lion King Mama Mia!
(more...)The latest Jersey Boys Podcast has an interview with Jersey Boys national tour member John Altieri, who plays Bob Crewe and other characters. It has Q&As related to John’s current and past roles as an actor, how he got the Jersey Boys role, and other details related to the challenges and benefits of being on [...]
(more...)Photos 1-10 courtesy of Walter McBride at BroadwayWorld.com; photos 11-18 courtesy of Walter McBride at BroadwayWorld.com. The Farnsworth Invention, a play directed by Jersey Boys’ Des McAnuff, opened at the Music Box Theatre on Monday, December 3rd! We saw it in previews back on October 20 and give it two thumbs up! The story, stars [...]
(more...)From BroadwayWorld.com: Angel Light Pictures announced today the signing of an agreement to spearhead the allocation of private funding for 7 Spencer Productions LLC’s romantic comedy feature film project “Three Roses and a Dance” and a thriller “Forevermore” in which Bobby Spencer is signed to direct. 7 Spencer Productions will act as executive producer and [...]
(more...)San Francisco Chronicle’s David Wiegand states that Jersey Boys, back at the Curran again with a third quartet of actors playing the Four Seasons, seems as close to an indestructible musical as any producer could hope for. You could probably cast Kermit, Animal, Bert and Ernie in the lead roles and still have people on [...]
(more...)The 19-day stagehands strike ended on November 28, allowing Jersey Boys and other darkened Broadway shows to resume performances on November 29. For the week ending December 2, 2007, Jersey Boys grossed $887,472 and had a 100.8% attendance rate for a five-show week ending December 2, 2007. Total grosses for the week were $14,259,335 for [...]
(more...)Playbill.com reports that the Canadian premiere of Jersey Boys will begin on the Toronto Centre for the Arts stage Aug. 21, 2008. The upcoming engagement, presented as part of Dancap Productions Inc.’s inaugural launch, is scheduled to play through Oct. 5. Tickets will be available by calling the CAP Centre at (416) 644-3665 or toll-free [...]
(more...)To celebrate the glory and wonder of Broadway, and to mark the end of a 19-day work-stoppage, the Great White Way’s biggest and brightest packed the stage of the Marriott Marquis in a very special free public concert “Broadway’s Back!” on Friday, November 30 at 12PM. Check out BWW TV coverage of the event, along [...]
(more...)For our sixth “JB Funniest Lines” poll, we would like to know: What’s the funniest male supporting character line in Act Two of Jersey Boys? You can vote for the funniest line in the current poll on the sidebar to the right, or from the JB Blog Polls page.
(more...)Thank you to everyone who responded to the latest Jersey Boys Blog Poll: What’s the funniest male supporting character line in Act One of Jersey Boys? It was not such a close race! Out of the 162 respondents, 76 (47%) said the funnest male supporting character line in Act One is: Publisher: No, no—the Four [...]
(more...)Travis Cloer will be playing Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys on Broadway in the matinee performances for at least the next two weeks! Now that it’s December, if you want to get in the holiday spirit, check out Travis’s new Christmas CD!
(more...)It’s been a busy week of great postings at Jersey Boys Podcast! They’ve posted a great interview with JB National Tour’s Christopher Kale Jones that was done during the San Diego performances! In addition, Part Two of a four-part interview with original Four Seasons member Tommy DeVito is now available!
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