Jersey Boys Blog

Wow! Check out this beautiful jacket with the hand painted Jersey Boys logo design donated by Damaris Dugan for the BC/EFA auction. You can bid on this and other Jersey Boys-related memorabilia on ebay!

Richard Dobbs of the Bay Area Reporter provides an in-depth look at Jersey Boys, the 2006 Best Musical Tony Award winner that launches its national tour in San Francisco tomorrow. Ironically, director Des McAnuff, whose Broadway credits include Big River and The Who’s Tommy, summarily rejected the idea for a Four Seasons musical when writers [...]

Theatermania.com reports that 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. Along with JLY, Love will be joined by her Hairspray co-star Tevin Campbell, musician Paul Shaffer, R&B and gospel [...]

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 [...]

Check out John Lloyd Young at the “Leslie Kritzer is Patti LuPone at Les Mouches” performance at Joe’s Pub last Sunday night on BroadwayWorld.com!

On Monday evening, December 4, Sara Schmidt will be among the performers that will help celebrate the second year anniversary of the acclaimed series, “Monday Nights, New Voices.” Produced by composer Scott Alan, the celebrated evening will find “New Voices” alumni teaming up on duets with past hosts. Showtime is 7pm at the Duplex Cabaret [...]

As reported earlier, Jersey Boys broke another house record at the August Wilson Theatre, grossing $1,182,602 (100.7% attendance rate) for the week ending 11/26/06. Thanksgiving week on Broadway was outstanding–with box office grosses totaling $23,349,774 for the week ending 11/26/06 for the 33 shows on the boards. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com [...]

The latest Jersey Boys Podcast has been posted! This podcast includes: Christy’s interview with Jersey Boys band members Ken and Kevin Dow; music from the Jersey Boys Thanksgiving Day TV appearance; audio from Peter Gregus’ focus segment from ABC TV’s Broadway Fall Preview; and audio from Christian Hoff’s recent appearance on PBS TV’s Theater Talk.

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!

BroadwayWorld.com reports that the Broadway hit Jersey Boys, winner of the 2006 Best Musical Tony Award about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, has set a new house record at the August Wilson Theatre, marking the 19th time the show has topped itself since it opened in November, 2005. The gross for the record-breaking week [...]

Playbill.com reports that Rhino’s release of 2006′s Tony Award-winning Best Musical Jersey Boys Cast Recording remains at the Number Two position for the third straight week on Billboard’s Cast Album List. Here’s a look at Billboard’s Top 5 Broadway Cast Albums for this week: Wicked Jersey Boys Mama Mia! The Lion King The Color Purple

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 [...]

Picture This: A Walk-On Role in this Year’s Best Musical–Jersey Boys! As Jersey Boys’Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA) and the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative fall fundraising comes to a close, the producers have given permission for the cast to auction off a walk-on role in a Jersey Boys performance to a fan who wants [...]

Jennifer Naimo and Michael Longoria will be among the New York University Tisch School of the Arts alumni who will perform at the gala benefit on December 4 at Broadway’s St. James Theatre. Billy Crystal will host the benefit, which will honor Tony Kushner, George C. Wolfe and Felicity Huffman. The event will also honor [...]

NJ.com’s Jarrett Renshaw reports that Tony-award winning actor John Lloyd Young recently stepped off the stage from the hit Broadway show Jersey Boys when an adoring fan handed him a gift card for a local supermarket as a token of appreciation. Years ago, when he was a struggling actor, such gifts would have been a [...]

On Monday, December 18 at 10PM, Daniel Reichard will be performing at the Metropolitan Room. The event, entitled “Christmas In Black And White,” will feature Daniel singing the standards and holiday favorites of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. He will be backed by a chamber band and visited by surprise guests! The Metropolitan Room is [...]

Backstage.com has an interesting article about the alums from “Forbidden Broadway,” a show that has done a great deal for the careers of many theatre artists. Former “Forbidden B’way” star Daniel Reichard, in addition to many other alums, reflect on their days with the show.

Happy Thanksgiving from Jersey Boys Blog! Thanks to Genuine Imitation Life Gazette, you can see an awesome video clip of the Jersey Boys’ performance of today’s CBS Thanksgiving Day Parade! Christian, Daniel, Bobby, and John Lloyd sang “My Eyes Adored You,” “Dawn (Go Away),” and “December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)” at the Shipyard Marina [...]

In town to promote NBC’s new hit “Heroes,” star Masi Oka took in a Broadway show. And not just any show, but the one featuring his former Brown classmate — Jersey Boys’ Tony Award-winning Best Actor of 2006, John Lloyd Young. After the November 21st performance, the two rising stars had a reunion! Check out [...]