Tomorrow night at 11 p.m., catch Tony Award winner John Lloyd Young at “Don’t Quit Your Night Job.” “Don’t Quit Your Night Job” is a late night happening of music, comedy and improvisation conceived and performed by Steve Rosen (Spamalot), David Rossmer (Nerds), Sarah Saltzberg (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), with Dan Lipton [...]
(more...)Jersey Boys remained HOT at the box office! For the week ending 5/27/07, the show grossed $1,196,7305 and had a 100.5% attendance rate. For the week ending 5/27/07, the 36 shows on the board grossed $20,922,895. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending May 27, 2007: Wicked $1,404,241 Jersey Boys [...]
(more...)On his Changing Channels blog, Miami Herald reporter Glen Garvin chatted last week with Steve van Zandt, the former E Street Band guitarist who plays family Silvio on “The Sopranos.” Garvin asked who was the Frankie Valli nut on the show. Not only has The Sopranos featured a lot of 4 Seasons’ tunes over the [...]
(more...)Paul Hodgins of The Orange County Register spoke to director Des McAnuff and pop icon Frankie Valli about why Jersey Boys is a hit. This blockbuster is a straightforward bio-play about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice with the blessing of Valli and the group’s songwriting genius, [...]
(more...)The latest Jersey Boys Podcast has been posted! This edition has details about the Jersey Boys Tour, Jersey Boys Broadway, Jersey Boys Las Vegas, happy birthday wishes to Frankie Valli, and condolences for the passing of Frankie’s first wife, Mary. The podcast also includes a terrific audio segment from the Mike Douglas Show featuring Frankie [...]
(more...)In John Lloyd Young’s final interview segment with Jersey Boys Blog, he shares his most memorable on-stage and off-stage surprises and experiences; what advice he’s given to kids who aspire to be actors; what advice he would give to actors that want to play the role of Frankie Valli; and what he has discovered about [...]
(more...)Christian Hoff reports on his blog that he will be a panelist in The Life Of An Actor event that will take place on Monday, June 4 at 8:15 PM at 92nd Street YMCA. This event is part of the 125th Anniversary Celebration of The Actors Fund, which is the organization that provides essential services [...]
(more...)In Part Two of his interview, John Lloyd Young reflects on the last year and a half of starring as Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys–including the thrills and the challenges of his Broadway debut, his days at Brown; and how he and his colleagues worked to overcome the jukebox musical stigma; and what the cast [...]
(more...)Photos courtesy of Linda Lenzi at BroadwayWorld.com
(more...)Earlier this month, I had an amazing time in NYC seeing Jersey Boys with my brother Craig (who was completely blown away by the show); doing the usual tourist things; and hanging out with friends who love the show as much as I do. The most marvelous experience of those five days? The opportunity to [...]
(more...)Eric Gutman has landed in L.A.! Check out his Tour This blog for all the details, including the incredible time he, Sara, and their dog Toby had traveling from SF to Carmel to Big Sur to Los Osos to Santa Barbara to Encinco, which will be their home for the next three months. Then, Eric [...]
(more...)Playbill.com reports that Tony Award-winning Jersey Boys star Christian Hoff will host the June 11 concerts at 7 and 9:30 PM. Hoff and Henderson have worked together before; in the late eighties they filmed an ABC Afterschool Special entitled “Just a Regular Kid: An AIDS Story.” The TV movie, which aired Sept. 9, 1987, cast [...]
(more...)The new San Francisco Jersey Boys cast is wooing and wowing the critics. According to BeyondChron.com’s Buzzin Lee Hartgrave, no show is cooler! Hartgrave enthusiastically states, “YEP, IT’S TRUE – YOU CAN’T TAKE YOUR EYES OFF OF THEM.” On the Curran Stage there is so much going on in ‘Jersey Boys’ that it keeps you [...]
(more...)Visit Broadway.com for photo coverage of this year’s Outer Critics Circle Awards, which was hosted by John Lloyd Young and Victoria Clark! You can see JLY on Photo Numbers 3, 15, & 28. Wow! Check it out!
(more...)Have we said lately how much we love chatting with Jersey Boys’ fans? Well, the response to our request for JBB Fantastic Fan Interviews has been amazing! We’re excited to present an interview with Michael Lennon, who chats about how he became interested in Jersey Boys back in the early days; what keeps bringing him [...]
(more...)Lea Lion of LADowntownNews.com states that most Americans of a certain age only need to hear a few notes of one of the Four Seasons’ many chart-topping songs to identify it. In the early ’60s, the pop group recorded its first platinum title, “Sherry,” followed by the big sellers “Big Girls Don’t Cry” and “Walk [...]
(more...)Karen D’Souza of the San Jose Mercury News tells readers that the new SF Jersey Boys cast stays true to the hit parade! D’Souza notes that the high-voltage hit has been electrifying audiences at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre since December and shows no signs of running out of juice even though a new cast has [...]
(more...)BroadwayWorld.com reports that producer Jed Bernstein has leaked the line up of scheduled special celebrity guest stars for this week’s performances of “Don’t Quit Your Night Job.” On Saturday, Jersey Boys’ Daniel Reichard will be among the special guests at the 5:30 p.m. show! “Don’t Quit Your Night Job” is a late night happening of [...]
(more...)San Francisco Sentinel’s Fine Arts Critic, Sean Martinfield’s headline says it all: JERSEY BOYS – Earth Angels invade Curran Theatre!!! Cast #2: Their Eyes Adore You!” Martinfield states, The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons re-opened Tuesday night at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre with a captivating brand new quartet. The show remains as [...]
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