Jersey Boys Blog

It’s almost time for the Tony Awards festivities to begin! Stay tuned to Jersey Boys Blog for full coverage beginning at 7:00PM (ET) this evening and for special reports following Broadway’s biggest night! Jersey Boys Blog would like to congratulate the nominees and the creative team of Jersey Boys for their Tony Award nominations: Best [...]

Broadway’s biggest night of the year is fast approaching! Make sure you visit TonyAwards.com before, during, and after the American Theatre Wing’s 60th Annual Tony Awards for great interactive features surrounding this year’s Tonys, which will be telecast on CBS on Sunday evening, beginning at 8:00 p.m./7c. Red Carpet Glamour – On Cable and Via [...]

The 60th Annual Tony Awards are tonight! Follow the awards LIVE as Playbill reports up-to-the-minute news from back-stage at Radio City starting at 7PM. Playbill.com editor Robert Simonson will blog from the Tony Press Room – CLICK HERE and refresh this page throughout the evening to read what the Tony winners say after they leave [...]

There are just a few hours until the telecast of the 60th Annual Tony Awards begin–and last-minute theatre critic predictions keep popping up on the Internet. Here are just a few more: Columbus Dispatch theatre critic Michael Grossberg says Boys’ should walk like men at tonight’s Tony Awards. The History Boys, the best play of [...]

Peter Filichia of the Star-Ledger notes that before Jersey Boys, now the hottest musical ticket on Broadway opened in November, only the most diehard musical theater aficionados could have identified Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, J. Robert Spencer and John Lloyd Young. Now, thanks to their performances as Tommy DeVito, Bob Gaudio, Nick Massi and Frankie [...]

Broadway.com has compiled a variety of Broadway journalists’ predictions for what shows will be Tony winners. Jersey Boys received 77% of the Best Musical vote, and JLY received 100% of the votes for Best Actor!

Seattlepi.com’s Jeffrey Eric Jenkins thinks with a funny and affecting book by screenwriter Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, Jersey Boys may have resuscitated the jukebox form. Featuring a knockout vocal performance by John Lloyd Young as Frankie Valli, Brickman and Elice’s clever telling of the Four Seasons’ story — each “season” narrates part of the [...]

Back on June 7, Broadway stars from this season treated fans to a celebration of the season’s hits at the “Stars in the Alley” event. Click HERE to see an interview with John Lloyd Young and a brief clip of the Boys singing “Walk Like a Man,” as well as other stars from this great [...]

The press is going nuts predicting Tony Award winners–and nearly all reporters are talking about the major horse race between Jersey Boys and The Drowsy Chaperone. Others are talking about who “will win” and “should win” in the various nomination categories. Here are some of the latest: Newsday.com’s Linda Winer predicts the following: Best Musical: [...]

Jersey Boys Podcast has released the fourth in a series of several in-person interviews with Jersey Boys cast members. Daniel Reichard talks about his favorite part of Jersey Boys; what it’s like to play Bob Gaudio; how Gaudio has inspired him personally and professionally; his early pre-Broadway experiences; his wonderful experience at La Jolla Playhouse; [...]

BroadwayWorld’s Robert Diamond spoke with Jersey Boys’ Tony Award-nominated director Des McAnuff. Here’s a sample of what McAnuff had to say: Q: Back to the present then, has the Jersey Boys amazing success so far given new hope to the world of ‘Jukebox Musicals?’ A: I think that the term “originated” back in the early [...]

Frankie Valli talked to “Entertainment Tonight’s” Jan Karl about his dream to be a singer as he grew up in Newark; his amazing success as lead singer of the Four Seasons; and the excitement of seeing his story, Jersey Boys, becoming a hit Broadway musical, nominated for eight Tony Awards. You can see a video [...]

New York Post’s Clive Barnes is making his annual Tony Awards predictionsl. For Best Musical, Barnes chooses Jersey Boys. Barnes states, “Jersey Boys– I know it’s a jukebox musical, but it’s not a drowsy jukebox, and it tells an engrossing story. “

According to a Reuters article today, Bob Gaudio, songwriting partner of Frankie Valli and one of the original Four Seasons, says he’s beginning to think Jersey Boys, a Broadway musical about the band, may be even more successful than the band itself. In a telephone interview, Gaudio’s business partner, legendary Four Seasons lead singer Frankie [...]

In today’s Los Angeles Times’ The Envelope web site, Gold Derby blogger Tom O’Neil says don’t be deceived by the fact that eight of The Envelope’s nine Tony Award pundits pick Jersey Boys to win Best Musical this Sunday night. The odds — drafted by David Scott of America’s Line, based upon critics’ views — [...]

Broadwayworld.com reports that Frankie Valli, the subject of the hit Broadway musical Jersey Boys, will appear on “Entertainment Tonight” TONIGHT, Thursday, June 8 at 7:30pm on CBS. Check your local listings for schedules.

Broadwayworld.com provides wonderful photo coverage of the star-studded Theatre World Awards ceremony, which was held on Tuesday, June 6 at Studio 54. You’ll see photos of Outstanding Broadway and Off-Broadway award winners, including John Lloyd Young and Harry Connick, Jr., in addition to presenters Lucie Arnaz and Liza Minelli.

Gay City News’ David Noh states that if John Lloyd Young doesn’t win the Tony for Jersey Boys, it’ll be the biggest robbery since Judy Garland lost the Oscar for “A Star is Born.” This refreshingly modest major talent, who is already legendary as Frankie Valli, spoke to Noh at the New Dramatists’ lunch, which [...]

Playbill.com’s Wayman Wong spoke with five phenomenal Tony nominees, including Jersey Boys’ John Lloyd Young. Here’s what Young had to say: WW: You’ve been so busy these days; how are you holding up? JLY: My itinerary looks like Hillary Clinton’s when she was running for Senate. There’s not a single hour in the day that’s [...]