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Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune reports that promoter Star Productions has booked Frankie Valli into the Chicago Theatre for a rare, one-night-only concert appearance on April 21. Valli and the Four Seasons’ concert appearance comes six months ahead of the Chicago production of the Broadway musical Jersey Boys, scheduled for October 6, 2007-January 6, [...]

Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons are returning to New Jersey! Later this month, they’ll be appearing in Atlantic City, then in March, they’ll be playing in New Brunswick and Morristown. In May, Frankie and the guys will be playing in Englewood and Red Bank. Below are the details: February 23: Atlantic City, NJ Borgata [...]

In a recent article in NWITimes.com, reporter Philip Potempa noted that singer Bobby Vinton has made plenty of friends during his 45 years in show business. In a recent telephone interview last week, Vinton talked about his friend Frankie Valli and the hit Broadway musical Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four [...]

Stephanie Bertholdo of TheAcorn.com reports that Tommy Lasorda, former Los Angeles Dodgers manager, scored a big hit with A.C. Stelle Middle School (in Southern California) students last week. Turns out Lasorda made good on a promise to visit the school after meeting A.C. Stelle students Emilio and Brando Valli, twin sons of Frankie Valli, the [...]

As reported earlier this week, Frankie Valli is starring as Harry “The Wolf” in “Cash Deal,” an award-winning short film directed by Michael Cole Dinelli. Jersey Boys Blog had the privilege to speak to Michael Cole Dinelli about his career as a writer, director, and actor; about the his award-winning short film; and about directing [...]

Frankie Valli is starring in an award-winning short film called “Cash Deal,” written and directed by Michael Cole Dinelli. Valli plays Harry “The Wolf,” a brilliant salesman and con-artist, on the road with a young man who worships him. Stay tuned for an upcoming JBB Exclusive Interview with writer and director Dinelli. To view the [...]

The latest Jersey Boys Podcast has been released! In addition to Christy and Steve Holden’s first-hand review of the Jersey Boys national tour, they have an impromptu interview with Frankie Valli that was recorded in person on December 11, 2006.

Check out this 1967 video clip of Frankie Valli singing “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”

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, [...]

John Lloyd Young will join Hairspray star Darlene Love for her annual Christmas show “Love for the Holidays” at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center at 7:30PM on Sunday, December 17. For tickets, call 212-721-6500 or visit www.jalc.org.

CBS5.com in San Francisco has posted an insightful interview with pop music icon Frankie Valli. Valli talks about his childhood in the Newark, New Jersey projects; his beginnings as a young singer; his amazing falsetto; the success of Jersey Boys; and so much more. So, what is a Jersey Boy, you ask? It all goes [...]

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 [...]

The Star-Telegram’s Malcolm Mayhew’s review of Thursday night’s Frankie Valli concert at the Nokia Theater shows that Valli is still the extraordinary showman after more than five decades in the business. On Thursday night at Nokia Theatre Valli, the New Jersey-born singer and one-time “Sopranos” star, performed with a full band, 10 players strong — [...]

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 [...]

Check out this Youtube.com video clip of Frankie Valli singing “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” on the Mike Douglas Show in 1967!

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 [...]

In today’s New York Post, gossip columnist Cindy Adams has a tidbit about Frankie Valli: FRANKIE Valli’s four recent Lincoln Center shots included an onstage drop-in from the Jersey Boys. The engagement was SRO. Before this hotshot show about his life hit Broadway, Frankie – whom everyone loved but nobody was booking – might’ve had [...]

Off Broadway’s Altar Boyz had a special guest backstage when one of the original Jersey Boys, Frankie Valli, paid the cast a visit. Altar Boyz’ Landon Beard toured with Valli prior to joining the Altar Boyz cast. Check out the backstage photo from Playbill.com!

Reuters.com’s Frank Scheck noted that if the audience could have moved fast enough, they would have experienced a bizarre show business form of double vision Wednesday night in New York. That’s because Jersey Boys, the hit musical depicting the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, was playing on Broadway, while the real thing [...]