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Matthew Scott reports on his blog that he will be going on as Frankie Valli on Tuesday evening July 3rd and in the Friday matinee on July 6th (this is an added performance due to the holiday that week). Also, Matthew reports that he will be going on as Bob Gaudio on Tuesday, July 10th, [...]

Big News on Daniel Reichard’s Summer Concert! On Sunday evening, August 12, Daniel Reichard will star in “Summer Mix Tape” at New York City’s Joe’s Pub! The concert will begin at 9:30PM. According to Daniel, the evening will involve stories from his childhood and the music will be kicking hard!!! He will be re-creating the [...]

According to Variety.com’s Gordon Cox, Christian Hoff, the Jersey Boy who picked up a featured actor Tony, will likely star in an upcoming Broadway revival of Pal Joey. That’s the word around town, anyway. The production itself, directed by Joe Mantello and produced by film and legit producer Marc Platt (Wicked), has not been formally [...]

Playbill.com reports that Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording jumped back up to the Number Two position on the Billboard Cast Album Chart. Below is the latest Billboard Top 5 Cast Album list: Wicked Jersey Boys Spring Awakening Curtains Mama Mia!

Will Hobson of The Philadelphia Inquirer has a great story about Jersey Boys’ Sara Schmidt’s passion for performing and her ups and downs of a life on and off Broadway. “I didn’t anticipate it being this hard,” the 31-year-old said as she sat in a Starbucks down the street from the August Wilson Theater. “I [...]

Theatermania.com reports that Daniel Reichard will perform in a Benefit Concert for 4th Meal Productions at Joe’s Pub on Monday, July 2 at 11:30pm. He will join fellow Broadway stars Joey Dudding, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Marya Grandy, Lisa Howard, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Marissa McGowan, Steven Pasquale, Steve Rosen, Sarah Saltzberg, and Maddy Wyatt. Proceeds will go [...]

Playbill.com reports that Tony Award-nominated Jersey Boys book writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice are working on a new Broadway-aimed musical to be directed by Tommy Tune. Patrick Pachecho reported on the cable channel NY1 that the project, called Turn of the Century, is a kind of jukebox musical filled with American pop standards. According [...]

Josh McAliffe of The TImes-Tribune.com notes that although Frankie Valli is a Jersey boy through and through, Valli also has a fair amount of Northeastern Pennsylvania in him, too. After all, two of the most important women in the singer’s life hail from NEPA — the one who raised him and the one who gave [...]

In Jersey Boys, when Frankie Valli introduces Bob Crewe to Bob Gaudio, Frankie tells Crewe that Gaudio “is the next Otis Blackwell.” This line made me curious to find out more about Otis Blackwell. All I knew about him was that he had written some of Elvis Presley’s early hits, but I figured there was [...]

Travis Cloer will go on as Frankie Valli on Friday June 29 and Saturday June 30, as well as Sunday July 1, and Friday-Sunday: July 6-8. As reported earlier, Matthew Scott will go on as Frankie Valli on Wednesday June 27 and Thursday June 28th.

The temperatures have heated up in NYC and so has the Jersey Boys box office! For the week ending June 24, 2007, Jersey Boys grossed $1,223,626, marking the 22nd time the show has topped itself since it opened in November, 2005! The show also had the highest seating capacity last week, with a 100.8% attendance [...]

Tony winner Christian Hoff takes you on a video tour of four locations from his audiobook, Tell Me How You Love the Picture by Edward S. Feldman with Tom Barton.

Visit Broadway.com to watch a video of the backstage look at “Broadway Bares 17: Myth Behaving,” a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, featuring host Daniel Reichard!

Jersey Boys Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, J. Robert Spencer, and John Lloyd Young are among the many marvelous contributors who have provided song commentaries on the “Jersey Beat” boxed set. While Christian, Daniel, and JLY give their thoughts on songs performed in Jersey Boys, Bobby highlights one of the Four Seasons’ most underrated (peaking at [...]

JIM PETRECCA’S “YESTERDAY’S TREASURES”—A 4 SEASONS MEMORABILIA STORE– BY THE FOUR SEASONS BOWLING ALLEY IN UNION, NJ By Howard Tucker, Special Correspondent Meeting Jim Petrecca ([email protected]) One of my most exciting experiences since Jersey Boys began in November, 2005, has been discovering “Yesterday’s Treasures” in Union, NJ: a Four Seasons Memorabilia Store (well, mostly) owned [...]

Jersey Boys Blog received some very distressing news today: A college student waiting for tickets in the Jersey Boys’ student rush line was punched unconscious by some thugs who were apparently ticket scalpers yesterday morning. Fortunately, the student is doing well after a trip to the emergency room. According to the official Jersey Boys website, [...]

Visit ArtsPass.com for a terrific video interview Jersey Boys authors Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, who share their story of writing the musical hit and bringing Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons to the Broadway stage.

With Spring Awakening’s big Tony win, there was a shakeup on the Billboard Cast Album Chart this week! After 15 consecutive weeks in the Number Two position, Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording has slipped down to Number Three. Below is the latest Billboard Top 5 Cast Album list from Playbill.com: Spring Awakening Wicked Jersey Boys [...]