Jersey Boys Blog

Bob Verini of Variety.com has a terrific feature about Tony Award-winner John Lloyd Young’s connection with the Actors Fund Home. When JLY visited the Actors Fund Home last year he discovered not just a nursing home but a repository of showbiz lore, a place where old can mingle with young. Back in April 2006, Young [...]

The musical numbers have been revealed for the upcoming “Broadway on Broadway” concert, which will be presented Sunday, September 16 in Times Square. The Jersey Boys cast will be singing “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”! For more details on “Broadway on Broadway,” including concert’s full song list, visit Playbill.com.

Playbill.com reports that the ninth volume of “Carols for a Cure,” the annual holiday recording benefiting Broadway Cares Equity Fights Aids and featuring Broadway cast members performing new and classic holiday tunes will be released next month. Jersey Boys cast members will be singing “Dominick the Donkey” on this year’s two-disc set! The release date [...]

Playbill.com reports that Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording remains at the Number Two position on Top Cast Album chart. This marks the sixth consecutive week that the Grammy Award-winning recording has been in this position. Additionally, on the Billboard 200 chart, the JB cast recording has jumped into the #141 position, after holding the #169 [...]

We’re excited to present JBB Special Correspondent Lauren Avila’s review of Jersey Boys in Sacramento! “…And the whole world exploded!” Well at least all of Sacramento, who seemed to have all showed up at the Opening Night of Jersey Boys. September 9th marked the beginning of Sacramento’s Broadway Season. What better way to begin than [...]

My58.com notes that it was Jersey City at the Community Center Theater opening of Jersey Boys, the hit musical celebrating the life and music of the Four Seasons. Judging from the reaction to the show’s numerous New Jersey references, everyone in the audience was from New Jersey, knew someone from New Jersey, had seen New [...]

Richard Bammer of The Reporter states that in recent years “jukebox musicals,” theatrical offerings of a band’s or composer’s catalog, have largely failed. But Jersey Boys, while falling into this generally questionable genre, is a jukebox musical with a compelling backstory that not only props up the music but also takes the audience on a [...]

Through the JBB Bulletin Board, Wanda Libardi from Massachusetts met Linda Lipsuis from California, and they discovered that they were both going to Daniel’s Summer Mix Tape on Friday night at Joe’s Pub! Thank you to Wanda for sharing photos of her fun weekend at Daniel’s show with Linda, along with her great pics of [...]

Michael Elkin of the Jewish Exponent profiles the amazing talents and career of Jarrod Spector, the San Francisco/Chicago Company’s Frankie Valli! According to Elkin, at his Bar Mitzvah, Spector learned to walk like a man. Now, at 26, he’s taken the next step: He’s singing it. Indeed, the specter of Spector commanding the stage is [...]

Steve Gorman of Reuters.com reports that the San Francisco/Chicago Company of the Tony-winning Jersey Boys will pay tribute to Tony Soprano and his crew of New Jersey TV gangsters in a musical performance planned for the upcoming Emmy Awards telecast, producers said on Wednesday “The Sopranos,” which concluded its celebrated six-season HBO run in June, [...]

Jersey Boys Blog Special Correspondent Audrey Rockman provides a marvelous recap of Jersey Boys’ cast members Cabaret Cares performance at the Laurie Beechman Theater on Sunday, September 9. The purpose of evenings like this one is not about getting more time with the talent surrounding Jersey Boys. Producer and Founder of Help is on the [...]

Tommy DeVito was at the August Wilson Theater on Sunday September 9 to see the show. Thank you to Kathy Bartsche for sharing these great photos!

Peter Gregus is a man of many talents! In addition to his scene-stealing work as Bob Crewe, Gregus juggles several other small roles and serves as Jersey Boys’ dance and fight captain. Broadway.com asked the Bronx-born actor to describe his typical day before and after he arrives at the August Wilson Theatre! Here’s a sneak [...]

Chicago Sun Times notes that as of yesterday, an additional performance (Oct. 5) and 12,000 new seats have been added to the Broadway in Chicago engagement of Jersey Boys. After a final look at the performance space, the show’s producers decided that the added seats did not have obstructed views and could be made available. [...]

John Lloyd Young is featured as the “Story of the Week” on the We Are Ellis Island website! Click on JLY’s link to read his story, see the expanded photo, and to check out readers’ comments.

Variety.com broke the bad news that the traditional post-Labor Day dropoff hit Broadway hard last week, with total receipts falling $3.8 million to slightly under $12.5 million for 21 shows on the boards. Attendance dwindled by more than 40,000 to 158,183. For the week ending September 9, 2007, Jersey Boys grossed $1,219,366 and had the [...]

Sacramento Bee’s Theater Critic Marcus Crowder states that the electrifying new Broadway Sacramento presentation of Jersey Boys succeeds on many levels – much like the popular band whose story it tells. Just as the best musical groups are more than the sum of their individual parts, the production fuses numerous elements into a resoundingly cohesive [...]

It goes without saying that the on-stage Jersey Boys band ROCKS! From the first time we saw Jersey Boys back at La Jolla Playhouse in 2004, Kevin Dow’s drumming talents brought the music and the story of The Four Seasons to life on the La Jolla stage! During our New York trip last month, we [...]

We’re excited to present our 26th JBB Fantastic Fan interview with Crissy Terawaki Kawamoto from Hawaii, who’s also an old friend of Christopher Kale Jones! Crissy talks about how she became interested in JB, her reaction to seeing Jersey Boys for the first time, her favorite musical number, line, and scene, some stories about Chris [...]