Jersey Boys Blog

Check out K-EARTH 101 Gary Bryan’s interview with Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, and Rick Elice!

In Jersey Boys, we get a glimpse into Bob Gaudio’s first group, The Royal Teens. When Bob was 15, The Royal Teens hit #3 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in 1958 with “Short Shorts.” Today’s edition of the Rock Gems blog provides a detailed account of The Royal Teen’s rise to fame. Here’s a [...]

Philip Potempa of NWITimes.com reports that legendary original Four Seasons members Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio slipped into Chicago Monday to meet with press and VIPs about the arrival of the Broadway hit Jersey Boys for its Chicago debut October 6, which is just about six months away. Read the whole story and check out [...]

As you all know, the Tony Award-winning smash hit Jersey Boys is coming to Chicago this fall. ABC7Chicago.com has a video interview with Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio, along with some incredible clips from the show! And–get this: The news anchor mentioned that the Chicago run of Jersey Boys at the LaSalle Bank Theatre has [...]

CBSNews.com has posted the transcript of the CBS “Sunday Morning” segment featuring Jersey Boys Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, Bobby Spencer, and John Lloyd Young, in addition to Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio. Regarding the Four Seasons, original member Gaudio states, We weren’t glamour boys, you know, we were just four guys that made music. Along [...]

Thanks to the GILG website, you can see a video clip of today’s excellent CBS “Sunday Morning” segment featuring Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, Bobby Spencer, and John Lloyd Young, in addition to original Four Seasons Bob Gaudio and Frankie Valli! It’s amazing–check it out!

Jersey Boys Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, Bobby Spencer, and John Lloyd Young will be featured on TODAY’s edition of “CBS Sunday Morning”! The segment will also spotlight original Four Seasons Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio! “CBS Sunday Morning” will begin at 9AM Eastern. Check your local listings for times outside of NYC.

Eunnie Park of NorthJersey.com caught up with former Bergenfield, New Jerseyite, Bob Gaudio. Before Jersey Boys and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Gaudio was a 15-year-old musical whiz from Bergenfield who had to decide between staying in school and touring with Chuck Berry. While his parents wanted him to stay in school, Paul [...]

On John Lloyd Young’s blog, he notes that this past Sunday, Jersey Boys had some major 2007 award winners in the audience: 2007 Academy Award-winning director, Martin Scorsese, and Jersey Boys very own 2007 Grammy Award winner, Bob Gaudio. Wonder if Martin Scorsese is considering directing the film version of JB?

This Just In: Producer Bob Gaudio has just won a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album for Jersey Boys!! Congratulations to Bob Gaudio, Bob Crewe, orchestrator Steve Orich, musical director Ron Melrose, Jersey Boys cast, and everyone associated with the cast recording!! Listen to samples on the Jersey Boys Original Broadway Cast Recording Preview [...]

Carole Barrow of SFDowntown.com has a terrific interview with Erich Bergen, Jersey Boys national tour’s Bob Gaudio. When asked about playing Gaudio, Bergen said, The role itself is very similar to me. He was a music geek, I was the same way, always asking for instruments and soundboards for Christmas…and of course, I’m from New [...]

The latest Jersey Boys Podcast has been released. This edition includes their recent in-person interview with Bob Gaudio recorded on December 11, 2006 in San Francisco.

Dan Taylor of the Press Democrat spoke to the legendary Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio about the Tony Award-winning Jersey Boys, which chronicles the rags to riches story of the Four Seasons. While the show takes its score right out of the solid gold Four Seasons songbook, its book is taken from the surprisingly dramatic, [...]

The View From the Bay, a television program in San Francisco, has an incredible video interview with rock ‘n roll legends and original Four Seasons Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio. In addition to talking about what it’s like to be immortalized in a Tony-award winning play, the men reveal how Jersey Boys came to life [...]

Pat Craig, of InsideBayArea.com provides a detailed look at of Jersey Boys, one of the most remarkably successful musicals to come along in years. The show, about the on- and offstage lives of The Four Seasons, has been running on Broadway for more than a year, and it opens its San Francisco run on Sunday [...]

San Francisco Chronicle’s Joel Selvin has an amazingly in-depth interview with the legendary Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio, the original Four Seasons who have been business partners for more than 45 years. The two men talk about their lives; their phenomenal success in the music business; and the Tony Award-winning Broadway smash hit Jersey Boys [...]

Check out photos of original Four Seasons Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio, in addition to Jersey Boys book writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice at an informal Q&A session at the Los Angeles House of Blues. Jersey Boys will play at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles from May 27 to August 5, 2007.

Check out Broadway.com’s coverage of Diana Ross’ backstage visit with the Jersey Boys cast! Along cast members Christian Hoff, Dominic Nolfi, Daniel Reichard, and Bobby Spencer, you’ll see pictures of Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice, Bob Gaudio, and Diana Ross’ daughter. For another treat, check out Jennifer Naimo’s picture with Diana Ross on her blog!

The latest Jersey Boys Podcast has been released. This podcast includes the “Girls of Jersey Boys” group cast interview with Erica Piccininni, Heather Ferguson, Sara Schmidt, and Jennifer Naimo; the latest news about Jersey Boys; and Part 2 of 3 of the Bob Gaudio and Frankie Valli guest DJ appearance in 1994 on BBC Radio.