Jersey Boys Blog

Jersey Boys was a big hit with both the critics and the crowds the minute it hit Broadway; however, the legendary Frankie Valli admits that he wasn’t overly thrilled with the play at first. “It wasn’t love at first sight,” Valli said during an interview with LiveDaily. “I was looking at it from a different [...]

Paul Hogins of the Orange County Register has an in-depth story about the success of Jersey Boys that includes interviews with Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Des McAnuff, and Erich Bergen. Valli had only one request about the show, which aimed to tell the story of the rise and fall of his legendary pop group, The [...]

Rebecca Little of Chicagomag.com recently spoke with the original Jersey Boy–Frankie Valli. A consummate professional who parlayed his trademark falsetto into 25 top-40 hits and counting, Valli just released a new compilation of love ballads, “Romancing the ’60s,” and has an upcoming concert date at the Chicago Theatre. Marquee spoke with Valli recently about his [...]

Betty Mohr, DailySouthtown.com’s theater critic says there’s a scene in Jersey Boys in which the actors playing Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio decide to form a partnership. Gaudio, who in real life would go on to write the classic hits performed by Valli and the Four Seasons, asks the singer whether they should sign a [...]

The Daily Record has an interesting update on longtime American radio personality “Cousin Brucie” Morrow, who is the author of a new book, “Doo Wop: The Music, the Times, the Era” (Sterling Publishing Co., $24.95). The 1960s was Morrow’s era on radio. His fans grew up with his nightly 7-to-11-p.m. show on powerhouse Top 40 [...]

Louis R. Carlozo of the Chicago Tribune reports that it’s official: Jersey Boys is a hit in Chicago, and with glowing reviews and two midshow standing ovations at last week’s opening night, odds are excellent that LaSalle Bank Theatre-goers will want to know even more about the group, whose story remained untold for decades. On [...]

Visit GILG to see the video clip of Frankie Valli’s October 23 appearance on “Fox and Friends.” The site also has links to Frankie’s appearances on “Entertainment Tonight” and the “Jimmy Kimmel Show.”

In a UPI.com story, Frankie Valli states that he enjoyed revisiting his past on his new album, “Romancing the ’60s.” Valli — whose group, the Four Seasons, is the subject of the hit musical Jersey Boys — says the “Romancing the ’60s” project “gave me an opportunity to do some songs I would have liked [...]

Photos courtesy of Linda Lenzi at BroadwayWorld.com. For many of us at the Jersey Boys Fans Unite to Support Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS event on Sunday evening, seeing the legendary Four Seasons together was our version of Rock and Roll Heaven! Below is David Cace’s wonderful presentation saluting our Original Jersey Boys! When I went [...]

On the Billboard 200 this week, Frankie Valli’s new album, “Romancing the ’60s” (Universal Motown) debuts at No. 177! It is Valli’s first appearance on this tally in 29 years and his eighth solo album to chart. Valli was last on the album survey with “Frankie Valli…Is the Word” in 1978. His first solo album [...]

“Entertainment Tonight” last night had a great segment featuring Frankie Valli! Frankie talks about his career, his new recording in 15 years, “Romancing the ’60s,” Jersey Boys, and his daughter’s tragic death. Visit GILG to see the video!

The Daily Mail reports it was the day Frankie Valli met, well, Frankie Valli. On Wednesday, the legendary singer with a four-octave falsetto met Ryan Molloy, an actor with a similar set of pipes, who will portray him in the London production of Jersey Boys. (Previews are at the Prince Edward Theatre from February 28.) [...]

According to previews, Frankie Valli will be appearing on “Entertainment Tonight” on Thursday! Check your local listings for times and details.

Broadway Books releases a companion book to the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys TODAY! Written by David Cote, the 176-page hardcover is titled “Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons.” “Like the show itself, this gorgeous, full-color companion book captures the magic and the original excitement of the band’s life and [...]

Chicago Tribune entertainment reporter Terry Armour covered Jersey Boys’ opening night at LaSalle Bank Theatre in Chicago tonight. He states that there are two things Frankie Valli could never have dreamed. First, that a bunch of New Jersey kids would gain worldwide fame as The Four Seasons. And second, that some years later that group [...]

Barbara Vitello of the Daily Herald says it took more than three years from the time Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio realized The Four Seasons story might make a better musical than TV film for Jersey Boys to become a reality. “It was a pipe dream then,” Gaudio says, one of the original Four Seasons [...]

Louis R. Carlozo of the Chicago Tribune states that The Four Seasons were the originals! He notes that it’s easy — too easy — to write off The Four Seasons as a passing whiff of the celebratory ’60s, a band with an impossibly high-pitched singer that got left in the dust of Beatlemania, now reduced [...]

Get your TIVOs, DVRs, and VCRs ready! Frankie Valli will be making an appearance on “Entertainment Tonight” this evening! Check your local listings for times.

On the TODAY Show’s blog, producer Tammy Fine reflects on the happy memories of her childhood listening to the music of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons: It seems like yesterday that I was sitting in the backseat of the family station wagon, squished between my sisters, listening to the local AM station in Wilmington, [...]