PR Newswire reports that the much-anticipated opening of The Palazzo Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas just got bigger with the addition of the Tony-Award winning smash hit musical, Jersey Boys. The perennially sold-out show based on the life story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons has taken Broadway by storm and now has [...]
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(more...)Jersey Boys’ box office week was terrific again this week, grossing $1,165,939 (and a 100.7% attendance rate) for the week ending April 29, 2007. For the week of April 29, 2007, Broadway grosses totaled $20,538,553 for the 37 shows on the boards. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending April [...]
(more...)BroadwayWorld.com notes that “New Voices’” Monday Night series, created by composer Scott Alan, continues May 14th at 7PM at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre. The show will be hosted by New Voices alumni Sara Schmidt and Nikki Renee Daniels, both of whom took part in the very first New Voices concert. Barbara Anselmi returns as musical [...]
(more...)Tonight, Tony Award-winner John Lloyd Young, along with other stars from Broadway, popular music, film, and television, will perform on the Carnegie Hall stage with The New York Pops in support of the orchestra and its education programs and free Summermusic concerts. The 24th Birthday Gala, entitled “Musical Fireworks,” will honor Macy’s and orchestra patrons [...]
(more...)Playbill.com reports that Daniel Reichard will be one of the cast members featured TONIGHT in a reading of David Neiman’s The Jordan Goldman Bar Mitzvah Sting at the Abingdon Theatre! Besides Daniel, the cast for the one-night-only performance features Les Misérables’ Becca Ayers, The Wedding Singer’s David Josefsberg, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change’s [...]
(more...)As with the music of the Four Seasons, Jersey Boys, the megahit Broadway show that tells the story of the group’s rise to fame appeals to all generations! Over the past several months, JBB Fantastic Fan Interviews have featured Baby Boomers and Generation X’ers, in addition to high school and college students who can’t get [...]
(more...)Playbill.com reports that Jersey Boys’ Tony Award-nominated orchestrator Steve Orich is orchestrating the world-premier, pre-Broadway tryout of the Lerner and Loewe Old West musical, Paint Your Wagon, which has been in the works for several years. The musical will emerge in a staging by Utah’s Pioneer Theatre Company this fall. PTC’s 2007-08 season in Salt [...]
(more...)Sunday evening, April 15th marked the last Broadway performance for Steve Gouveia, who is off to play Nick Massi on the national tour of Jersey Boys. Steve has been with JB since the beginning at La Jolla Playhouse. John Lloyd Young mentioned on his blog that along with Steve, Jessica Worsnop from the wardrobe department, [...]
(more...)Check out the new Jersey Boys National Tour Videos page, with video clips from the “Tonight Show,” the SF Giants’ home opener, a montage, and some added surprises. There are also some updates to the Jersey Boys Broadway Videos and the More Four Seasons Videos pages.
(more...)NWITimes.com columnist Phil Potempo reports that Star Plaza Theatre CEO and talent buyer Charlie Blum had good reason to be all smiles last Saturday night backstage with singer Frankie Valli at The Chicago Theatre. Valli had just finished a two-hour dynamite concert produced by Blum, which sold out the historic 3,800-seat venue. After enjoying the [...]
(more...)Showing that theatergoers’ generosity knows no geographical bounds, the national touring company of Jersey Boys staged an upset April 24, winning the grand prize at the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS’ 21st annual Easter Bonnet Competition by raising $236,844 in support of people facing HIV/AIDS. It’s the first time a show other than a musical on [...]
(more...)The day after Jersey Boys celebrated their 600th performance, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2006 gave back to their community by presenting a special benefit performance for the Actors’ Fund of America on Sunday, April 15. Check out Broadway.com for photos from the exciting event!
(more...)Jersey Boys had another terrific box office week, grossing $1,162,541 for the week ending April 22, 2007. Additionally, the show had the highest seating capacity of any show on Broadway–100.7%! For the week ending 4/22/07, grosses totaled $21,398,055 for the 37 shows on the boards. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the [...]
(more...)The response to JBB Fantastic Fan Interviews has been remarkable, with fans from all over the country–including New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Georgia, San Francisco, and Arizona participating! We’re excited to present our 14th interview with Mike Magbaleta, who hails from SF. Mike talks about how he and his family became hooked on Jersey Boys; [...]
(more...)The 4 Seasons third album, “Ain’t That A Shame and 11 Others” is another one of the group’s albums that I didn’t discover until much later. While the “Sherry” and “Big Girls Don’t Cry” albums feature the Number One hits and lots of incredible renditions of other groups’ hits from the ’50s, this album features [...]
(more...)BroadwayWorld.com reports that this May and June, the 92nd Street Y welcomes some of America’s most highly regarded actors to its stage, giving audiences a chance to get to know the people behind the talented faces. On Monday, June 4, at 8:15 PM, Tony Award-winner Christian Hoff, along with Harvey Fierstein, Charles Busch, and Michael [...]
(more...)From today’s USA Weekend Who’s News column, a reader wants to know if Jersey Boys will become a movie. Q: Are there any plans to make the Broadway hit Jersey Boys, about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, into a movie? A: There are plenty of rumors — some have Harvey Weinstein, Steven Spielberg or [...]
(more...)Check out this incredible Four Seasons/Jersey Boys profile that was recently posted on YouTube.com!
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