Jersey Boys Blog

As Broadway hit Jersey Boys, revealing the rags-to-riches tale of Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, opens in the West End TONIGHT, Whatsonstage.com’s John Coleman salutes the group’s signature sound & rise to fame from the mean streets of New Jersey. Thrilling Four Seasons harmonies might resonate with early Sixties Beach Boys sounds, but Valli’s [...]

After reading the pre-publicity Jerseybeat – The Four Seasons Story (Radio 2, Wed), Gillian Reynolds of the Telegraph expected the series to be only an extended plug for the stage show. However, after three of its four episodes, she is hooked, addicted, enthralled. The Four Seasons, to remind you, are a white singing group from [...]

Ryan Molloy, the West End Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys recently spoke to Whatsonstage.com’s Roger Foss about playing the legendary singer. Here’s a preview of what Ryan discovered about Valli: I hoped to meet Frankie Valli when I flew to New York for the final audition for Jersey Boys, but he was far too busy [...]

Listen to this amazing interview with Bob Gaudio and Stephen Ashfield on BBC London Radio on the Lesley Joseph and Christopher Biggins Show!

Jersey Boys national tour previews Wednesday and opens Thursday at the Orpheum in Minneapolis. Rohan Preston of the Star Tribune notes the cast of Jersey Boys fretted about how pop icons Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons would react. Preston spoke with JB national tour stars Christopher Kale Jones, who plays Frankie Valli, and Andrew [...]

Visit GILG to listen to Part 3 of BBC Radio’s “Jersey Beat: The Four Seasons Story!” Part 3 includes interviews with Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, songwriter Denny Randell, and former 4 Seasons members Charles Callello and Lee Shapiro. This segment highlights the Seasons’ career in the late 1960s through the group’s biggest hit [...]

It’s no surprise that young stars are mentioning Jersey Boys and The Four Seasons when reporters ask them about their favorites. Check out what a former “American Idol” contestant and an “Ugly Betty” cast member had to say: Now that he’s been voted off “American Idol,” when asked what he’d like to do next, Luke [...]

On March 13, 1976, the Four Seasons had their fifth Number One hit with “December 1963″ (Oh, What a Night),” which was their first hit to top the charts since “Rag Doll” in 1964. “December 1963″ remained in the top position on the Billboard Hot 100 for three consecutive weeks and was also their only [...]

Check out photos of Bob Gaudio, Frankie Valli, and artist (and former Royal Teens member) Tom Austin signing “Short Shorts Season” prints. There will 50 signed 14X18 unframed “Short Shorts Season” prints signed by Austin, Gaudio, and Valli and are available at the Fieldstone Fine Art Gallery, Ramsey, NJ–201-962-3636. The gallery will feature an exhibition [...]

With Jersey Boys officially opening on March 18 in London, the UK press is filling everyone in on the Tony Award-winning megahit, in addition to Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. In the Sunday Sun, Caroline Smith provides some interesting facts on Frankie Valli’s chart-topping career. Along with singing, Frankie also acted, appearing in the [...]

Sara Robertson of the Sunday Sun has a fun interview with Ryan Molloy, who is playing Frankie Valli in the West End production of Jersey Boys. Molloy, 32, talks about the excitement of playing Frankie Valli and meeting the pop icon, the upcoming Opening Night festivities in London on March 18, and what he’d like [...]

In Act One of Jersey Boys, before becoming The Four Seasons, the guys are singing background for Bob Crewe’s other artists in the recording studio. Among those singers featured is the Hal Miller character, singing “An Angel Cried” (written by Bob Gaudio). In 1961, Hal Miller and The Rays recorded that song on the Topix [...]

The Sunday edition of the London Times states that it’s time to shine a light on the invisible men. Considering how many hits they accumulated in their prime – they are up there with John, Paul, George, Ringo and Elvis – the Four Seasons are as anonymous as any gang of backroom musicians. Frankie Valli [...]

In case you missed it yesterday or would like to see a repeat performance, check out this video of Frankie Valli on Rachael Ray’s Show!

There’s terrific press coverage of the arrival of Jersey Boys to the West End! Nick Curtis of the Evening Standard has a highly interesting interview with Frankie Valli, 74, and Bob Gaudio, 66, respectively the voice and the songwriter of the Four Seasons! Valli and Gaudio talk about their tough early days, their successes, their [...]

Sarah Swain of the Evening Times has a terrific profile of Stephen Ashfield, a Glasgow actor who will take the stage tonight as Bob Gaudio in the London production of Jersey Boys! Ashfield, 28, says it is all thanks to his school music teacher. The actor, who studied at Glasgow’s RSAMD, said he was “ecstatic” [...]

As the story of ’60s pop sensations The Four Seasons heads for the West End, David Gritten of Telegraph.co.uk has a marvelous interview with Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio. Here’s a preview: For those too young to recall, it is hard to convey how huge the Four Seasons were when they first emerged from New [...]

NJ.com’s Julie O’Connor has a follow-up on today’s Four Seasons/Jersey Boys tour. O’Connor states that it was nostalgia, the spirit of adventure and love of doo-wop music that drew together the unlikely group of devotees who trekked through the Newark area on the first-ever Jersey Boys tour. From New Jersey and places as far away [...]

NJ.com’s Julie O’Connor reports on today’s mini-bus tour of about 20 Frankie Valli enthusiasts from New Jersey and other states that will highlight the “original Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons neighborhoods,” located in and around Newark. The event is the first in a series of city-related tours, inspired by the 2006 Tony Award-winning Broadway [...]