Jersey Boys Blog

Sorry for the delays today–but for you guys on Pacific Time: Jersey Boys will be appearing around 10:05 PM tonight on The Tony Awards on CBS!

To celebrate the one year anniversary of Jersey Boys’ Tony Awards, we thought we would highlight the heartfelt and moving acceptance speeches by Howell Binkley, Christian Hoff, John Lloyd Young, and JB Producer Michael David. Howell Binkley, Best Lighting Design of a Musical, Jersey Boys “Hey, first of all, Jersey Boys has been an incredible [...]

As you all know, Jersey Boys Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, Bobby Spencer, and John Lloyd Young will be performing and presenting at the Tony Awards, which will air tomorrow night on CBS! It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year ago this weekend that we were all celebrating Jersey Boys’ EIGHT Tony Award nominations: [...]

Cristofer Gross of Blog Critics Magazine gives a thumbs-up to the Jersey Boys at the Ahmanson Theatre: Before music videos, when pop tunes were audio only, they nested in our imaginations with images and references gathered from the host brain. This heightened the intimacy of the songs and piqued our interest in the singers hidden [...]

Here are the Jersey Girls performing at yesterday’s “Stars in the Alley”! Photo courtesy of Mark Rupp at BroadwayWorld.com.

Playbill.com’s Ernio Hernandez has a very interesting piece on 2006 Tony winners Beth Leavel from Drowsy Chaperone and Jersey Boys’ Christian Hoff and John Lloyd Young. All three stars continue to perform in their Tony Award-winning roles on Broadway a year after winning the honor — and they don’t plan to stop anytime soon. Here’s [...]

Tony Award-winner Christian Hoff has had quite the year! In addition to winning a Tony for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for JB, he also is now in the Guinness Book of Records for giving voices to 241 characters in the audiobook Tell Me How You Love the Picture, and he [...]

Daniel Reichard has provided some schedule updates on his MySpace page: He will NOT be appearing at TEASE: A NIGHT OF BURLESQUE this Monday, June 11th. However, Dominic Nolfi, another Jersey Boy will still be co-hosting the show! He will be on vacation from JERSEY BOYS from July 9th through July 15th.

For the first week in June, Jersey Boys’ box office grosses remained solid! JB grossed $1,162,590, and had a 100.8% attendance rate (the highest of all shows!). Total grosses for the week were $18,685,896 for the 36 shows on the boards for the week ending June 3, 2007. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from [...]

BroadwayWorld.com reports that JB cast members, along with casts of many other Broadway shows, will perform in the annual “Stars in the Alley” concert TOMORROW! The big event will be held in Shubert Alley (West 44th St., west of 7th Ave.) on June 6th at 11 AM. Additional information about the concert, the “Fan Favorite” [...]

Staff writer Charles McNulty notes that ovations are a dime a dozen in the theater these days, though not many shows can boast of setting one off midway through the second act. But then “Jersey Boys,” the musical biography of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons that opened at the Ahmanson on Sunday, has a [...]

The Los Angeles Daily News provides some brief biographical information on the real Four Seasons! Frankie Valli: Falsetto singer born Francis Stephen Castelluccio in Newark, N.J. Cut his first single in 1952.Sang with the Varietones, which later became the Four Lovers and then the Four Seasons. Solo hits include theme song to “Grease” and “Swearin’ [...]

Evan Henerson, Theater Writer for the Los Angeles Daily News recently spoke with original Four Seasons Bob Gaudio and Frankie Valli, along with co-authors Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice about the megahit Jersey Boys, which opens at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles TONIGHT! Here’s a sneak peek of this interesting piece: The difference between [...]

In La Oferta, reporter Íride Aparicio provides a terrific interview with Jarrod Spector, who stars as Frankie Valli in the San Francisco/Chicago Jersey Boys national tour. Spector is garnering ovations for his sensational portrayal of the pop icon. In this interview, Spector reflects on playing Valli, his career (that started as a child), his college [...]

In a Special to the Los Angeles Times, Rob Kendt provides an in-depth article about Deven May, who stars as the slick, pompadoured wiseguy Tommy DeVito in the national tour of Jersey Boys. Though the Tony-laden show about the Four Seasons singing group does have “Boys” in the title, May, the versatile actor best known [...]

In The Press Enterprise, Eric Auerbach chats with Erich Bergen, who stars as Bob Gaudio in the national tour of Jersey Boys. Bergen talks about the first time he saw JB on Broadway and what it’s like to play Gaudio, the musical genius who wrote most of the chart-topping hits for the Four Seasons. Auerbach [...]

Ventura County Star columnist Jeff Favre states that in the early 1960s, a group of young dudes from New Jersey singing catchy four-part harmony became the top pop idols everywhere in the country except Southern California. That’s because the West Coast was and remains Beach Boys territory. Brian Wilson and his bandmates even delivered a [...]

Over the last couple of months, Jersey Boys Blog has received lots of requests for us to find out more about JB Broadway ensemble cast member Travis Cloer! Blog readers are oh so curious about where “this great new guy came from” and “what’s the scoop on him.” While in New York last month, I [...]

This Just In: Jersey Boys National Tour will be featured on “Entertainment Tonight” this evening! Check local listings for details!