According to the League of American Theatres and Producers, 2005 is Broadways highest grossing calendar year of all time and the second highest in paid attendance. Broadway has grossed a record-breaking $825 million in New York for the 2005 calendar year s up 10.2 % from the 2004 total of $749 million. The staying power [...]
(more...)In this week’s Diva Talk column, Andrew Gans provides a “best of” list that includes favorite musical performances on the theatrical and cabaret stages that opened in 2005. Included in Gans’ list is Jersey Boys! Here’s what he says about the smash hit musical: Just when it seemed the jukebox musical had taken its last [...]
(more...)In a UPI story posted today, J. Robert Spencer, who plays late Four Seasons member Nick Massi in the Broadway smash musical Jersey Boys, says the new hit is a rock biography with great music, not a jukebox musical. Spencer also tells UPI that with jukebox musicals, they always take (someone’s) popular songs and then [...]
(more...)According to Variety’s Gordon Cox, fall hit Jersey Boys was one of the few shows to beat the Christmas slump, climbing $90,000 to $895,865 to break the August Wilson house record yet again. Broadwayworld.com reports that since opening to rave reviews, the smash hit has grossed $7,299,716.
(more...)In Broadway.com’s 2005 Wrap-Up of Quotable Quotes, Frankie Valli, John Lloyd Young, and Rick Elice give their thoughts on Jersey Boys: “This has been a dream in the making for a long time, so to actually see it being performed on a Broadway stage is—don’t really have any words to tell you what the feeling [...]
(more...)The Broadway.com editorial has published Top Picks for the 2005 Broadway season. Number 8 on the list is the hit musical Jersey Boys. Check out what the editorial staff says about the show that brings audiences to their feet: The Broadway road is littered with belly-up jukebox musicals—from Good Vibrations to Lennon—but now the funeral [...]
(more...)In an article published today, Playbill summarizes several publications’ annual roundups of this year’s best theater productions. Included on many of these lists is the hit musical Jersey Boys and John Lloyd Young’s standout performance as Frankie Valli! …Could there be some Tony nominations in the Jersey Boys’ future???
(more...)Both Newsday.com and New York Daily News.com place the hit musical Jersey Boys among the top theater experiences of 2005! Newsday.com’s Linda Winer states that Jersey Boys turns out to be one of the most entertaining musicals of the fall season. Finally, here is a quality jukebox bio of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. [...]
(more...)In his year-end summary of Broadway’s best, New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley applauds John Lloyd Young’s standout performance in Jersey Boys: Who’d a thunk that the theatrical find in the year would surface in a crowd-pleaser about the career of the pop group the Four Seasons? But playing Frankie Valli, the Seasons’ lead [...]
(more...)In his Broadway debut playing Frankie Valli in this season’s hit musical Jersey Boys, Entertainment Weekly has named John Lloyd Young’s performance among 2005’s most memorable moments. Here’s what was said in EW’s year-end double issue: John Lloyd Young vividly remembers his first Frankie Valli moment. “As a kid, I saw a commercial for this [...]
(more...)Jersey Boys is #7 on Entertainment Weekly’s Top 10 Stage of 2005! In the year-end double issue, here’s what was said about the Broadway smash hit musical: If shows based on the songs and/or lives of the Beach Boys, Elvis, and John Lennon couldn’t cut it, why would one on the admittedly lesser Four Seasons? [...]
(more...)Correction: Jerseyboysblog.com has just found out through Playbill.com that the “Theater Talk” interview with Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, who wrote the book for Broadway’s musical Jersey Boys, will take place on Dec. 24 at 12:30 AM (ET). Check local listings.
(more...)Check this out: USA Today reporter Elysa Gardner claims that this past year “wasn’t a bad one for Broadway.†Although she says the most lamentable trend is the jukebox musical, she notes that the “least lamentable example of a lamentable trend†is Jersey Boys. Gardner notes that “performers with more talent and charisma than many [...]
(more...)Due to the MTA strike, now may be the best time to finally get your tickets to Jersey Boys!! Robert Kahn of NYNewsday.com states that Broadway shows are continuing regular performance schedules during the transit strike, with seats to popular shows expected to be in greater supply as commute-weary ticketholders trade in their ducats for [...]
(more...)On Friday, December 23, Broadway.com will announce the 2005 Star of the Year! JerseyBoysBlog.com’s Prediction: This year’s winner will be– JOHN LLOYD YOUNG!!!
(more...)Just a reminder: You have 15 minutes left to cast your vote for John Lloyd Young as Broadway.com’s Broadway Star of the Year!!!
(more...)In today’s edition of the Epoch Times, Judd Hollander states that the jukebox genre of musicals finally gets it right with Jersey Boys. It’s fun, a bit educational, and offers a very good time! Hollander thinks it was a smart twist to have each of the original group members tell their side of the story. [...]
(more...)In Jersey Boys, Tommy DeVito describes young Frankie Castelluccio as a “kid who sings like an angel”. If you get a chance during this holiday season, check out “The 4 Seasons Greetings” Christmas CD. DeVito wasn’t kidding about this voice of an angel! Back in December 1962, the 4 Seasons had a Top 20 hit [...]
(more...)Broadwayworld.com announced that PBS’ TheaterTalk will feature an exclusive interview with Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, co-writers of the book of the hit Broadway musical, Jersey Boys this Friday, December 23 at 12:30am on WNET-TV (Channel 13).
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