Broadway.com provides extensive video and photo coverage of Broadway’s biggest night. Here’s a VIDEO of the arrivals of winners, nominees, and presenters, including shots Christian Hoff, Des McAnuff, and John Lloyd Young. Then, check out PHOTO coverage of the “winners circle,” including shots of Christian & Melissa Hoff, Daniel Reichard, J. Robert Spencer, and JLY, [...]
(more...)Broadway.com provides transcripts of the acceptance speeches of the 2006 Tony Award winners. Below are the moving 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 adventure I think for [...]
(more...)Jersey Boys Blog is thrilled to post a report from Special Correspondent Sue Lasbury from the La Jolla Playhouse Tony Awards party! La Jolla Playhouse Tony Award Party La Jolla, California 11 June 2006, 4:30 to 8:30pm Home of the 2006 Tony Award Winner, Best Musical: Jersey Boys Two hundred Jersey Boys fans gathered in [...]
(more...)It’s almost time for the Tony Awards festivities to begin! Stay tuned to Jersey Boys Blog for full coverage beginning at 7:00PM (ET) this evening and for special reports following Broadway’s biggest night! Jersey Boys Blog would like to congratulate the nominees and the creative team of Jersey Boys for their Tony Award nominations: Best [...]
(more...)BroadwayWorld’s Robert Diamond spoke with Jersey Boys’ Tony Award-nominated director Des McAnuff. Here’s a sample of what McAnuff had to say: Q: Back to the present then, has the Jersey Boys amazing success so far given new hope to the world of ‘Jukebox Musicals?’ A: I think that the term “originated†back in the early [...]
(more...)Jersey Boys’ Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff talks to Playbill.com’s Harry Haun about his reputation as a hit man from coast to coast. With Jersey Boys on Broadway and Zhivago in La Jolla, director Des McAnuff confirms his reputation as a hit man from coast to coast. McAnuff, a two-time Tony-winning director going for three [...]
(more...)NorthJersey.com’s Robert Feldberg notes that few things in the theater are harder than creating a hit Broadway musical; a generous estimate is 15 percent of the shows that make it to opening night are successful. Director Des McAnuff, however, has an 80 percent success rate on the Great White Way. What’s his secret? McAnuff says [...]
(more...)In the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, Melissa Rose Bernardo’s Tony predictions have Jersey Boys taking home quite a few Tonys!! Best Musical NOMINEES The Color Purple, The Drowsy Chaperone, Jersey Boys, The Wedding Singer WINNER Jersey Boys. It gives the jukebox musical a good name. Plus, out-of-town voters want it to play their cities. [...]
(more...)Playbill.com’s Robert Simonson’s interview with director Des McAnuff provides some insight into the journey of finding the actor to play front man Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys. Although it seems like a tall order, Tony Award-nominated director said the search for the right man wasn’t as difficult as it might have been. Although McAnuff had [...]
(more...)In a new Broadway.com video, Tony nominees are asked, “Are you a competitive person?” Check out what Jersey Boys’ Des McAnuff and John Lloyd Young, along with many other Tony nominees had to say.
(more...)Broadway.com provides full photo coverage of the newly minted Tony Award nominees’ May 17 brunch with the press at the Marriott Marquis’s View Restaurant 46 floors above Times Square. Check out Jersey Boys’ photos on Pages 1, 45, & 48.
(more...)In the latest issue of Variety, David Rooney notes that while there are 24 competitive categories to be decided when the 2006 Tony awards are announced June 11 and a number of them are wide open, the race that has Broadway insiders buzzing is the unpredictable duel between The Drowsy Chaperone and Jersey Boys for [...]
(more...)Sun-Sentinel.com’s Theater Writer Jack Zink reports that the shows have all opened, the Tony Award nominations are out, and Broadway has a neck-and-neck competition for its most-watched race. The Drowsy Chaperone, a tongue-in-cheek homage to old-fashioned musicals, has the lead in nominations but not necessarily the count against the slickest rock musical ever, Jersey Boys. [...]
(more...)Broadway.com contacted many of this year’s Tony nominees to congratulate them and to find out how they heard the news. Here’s what Christian Hoff, Des McAnuff, and John Lloyd Young had to say: Christian Hoff, Best Featured Actor in a Musical Nominee: “My alarm went off at 8:30, and I was lying in bed thinking, [...]
(more...)The 2006 Tony Nominations have been announced and Jersey Boys has garnered EIGHT nominations: Best Musical Best Book of a Musical–Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical–John Lloyd Young Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical–Christian Hoff Best Direction of a Musical–Des McAnuff Best Orchestrations–Steve Orich [...]
(more...)After a recent visit to Broadway, Columbus Dispatch critic Michael Grossberg gives Jersey Boys the thumbs-up. He tells readers who may be going to New York to catch some shows that Jersey Boys is one of three shows not to be missed! Here’s what Grossberg says about the megahit musical: Creators: Authors Marshall Brickman and [...]
(more...)The 72nd Annual Drama League Awards Ceremony and Luncheon was an extra special day for the cast and crew of Jersey Boys. Not only did they take home the award for Distinguished Production of a Musical, but Director Des McAnuff was also honored with the Julia Hansen Award for Excellence in Directing award. Broadwayworld.com provides [...]
(more...)In today’s Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, film critic Ed Blank talks about his recent Broadway experience seeing a very enthusiastic audience at the smash hit musical Jersey Boys. Blank notes that the first 45 minutes of Jersey Boys sketch the genesis of a Joisey pop singing group in mid to late 1950s that under several names and [...]
(more...)In her Orlando Sentinel blog, Elizabeth Maupin reviews Jersey Boys. Maupin admits that Four Seasons’ hits “never did it for her†–until seeing Jersey Boys, a musical that had her grinning from ear to ear. She notes that a lot of Jersey Boys is very funny, with writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice doing a [...]
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