This Just In: Bobby Spencer will be appearing on the TODAY Show tomorrow, November 15 at 9:30 AM to talk about his film, Farm Girl in New York, that will premiere tomorrow at the Big Apple Film Festival! Also, the official Farm Girl in New York website is up and running! Congratulations, Bobby!
(more...)Photos courtesy of Wanda Libardi.
(more...)As reported earlier, due to the strike, many BC/EFA fundraising efforts of this season have been halted. However, as Jersey Boys fans, we can still help BC/EFA! Visit the BC/EFA Jersey Boys Broadway site to make a donation in the name of our favorite show! Below is an official statement from BC/EFA Executive Director Tom [...]
(more...)As reported earlier, Jersey Boys were among the big winners at the 2007 Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Awards ceremony that took place November 12 at downtown’s The Orpheum Theatre. Visit BroadwayWorld.com for photos of Erich Bergen, Christopher Kale Jones and his wife Jenna Marie Coker-Jones, and Jackie Seiden!
(more...)This is a very big fund raising time for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. During November until the Gyspy of the Year presentation in early December, Broadway shows typically make appeals from the stage after the show, collect donations in buckets at the exits after the show, and sell commemorative items such as signed posters and [...]
(more...)AP reports that the impact of the Broadway stagehands’ walkout became apparent in dollars and cents Tuesday as the League of American Theatres and Producers released its weekly box-office report. The results were obvious: dramatically lower grosses for the more than two dozen Broadway plays and musicals running an abbreviated schedule after they were shut [...]
(more...)BroadwayWorld.com’s News Desk Editor Eugene Lovendusky had a chance to chat with Jersey Boy and movie maker–Bobby Spencer! As you all know, Bobby has just completed directing, producing, writing and starring in his first feature film – a screw-ball romantic comedy entitled Farm Girl in New York – premiering Thursday evening, November 15, at the [...]
(more...)BroadwayWorld.com reports that Broadway’s smash hit Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, performs at The 5th Avenue Theatre December 5, 2007 – January 12, 2008. Directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Des McAnuff, Jersey Boys won four 2006 Tony Awards including Best Musical and remains one of the top-grossing shows in [...]
(more...)BroadwayWorld.com reports that Bobby Spencer will be on “The Joey Reynolds Show” tonight, Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, November 14 at 12 Midnight on WOR Radio 710 HD/New York. Spencer has just completed Directing/Producing/Writing/Starring in his first feature film, entitled Farm Girl in New York, about two guys who have no luck with women, so they hold [...]
(more...)Photos courtesy of Kathy Bartsche.
(more...)Thanks to Kathy Bartsche, we have incredible video coverage of Jennifer Naimo singing “Sittin’ in the Middle” from her “Many the Miles” Cabaret on Sunday evening!
(more...)Playbill.com reports on this year’s L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Awards. Congratulations to Jersey Boys for receiving the Best Touring Production Award! Also congratulations to JB orchestrator Steve Orich for being nominated for Best Musical Direction for Can-Can at the Pasadena Playhouse!
(more...)“Music to Watch Girls By” by The Bob Crewe Generation (Peaked at #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967) We wish Bob Crewe a Happy 76th Birthday today! Bob Crewe was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1985. While Crewe is perhaps best remembered for the parade of hits he co-wrote with [...]
(more...)Last month, during the auction at the Jersey Boys Fans Unite to Support BC/EFA event, one of the most exciting auction items was a caricature of the four Boys by artist Justin “Squigs” Robertson. In addition to this caricature, he has created the amazing poster for Bobby Spencer’s “Farm Girl in New York” film. We’re [...]
(more...)On his blog, John Lloyd Young reports that he will sing “The National Anthem” at the New Jersey Nets home game vs. the New Orleans Hornets, at the Meadowlands on Monday, November 12. JLY also notes that fans have been asking if any canceled performances due to the stagehand’s strike will effect his final performance [...]
(more...)BREAKING NEWS: Jersey Boys Broadway performances will be canceled TODAY, Saturday November 10 due to a strike by Local One, the IATSE stagehands. The union has called a meeting for 9 AM ET, according to Local One’s official website. The strike, AP reports, will begin at 11 AM, in time to close an early matinee [...]
(more...)It’s official: In a mass email to subscribers this morning, Michael Longoria shares the news that he will be taking over the role of Frankie Valli in Broadway’s Jersey Boys beginning November 27, 2007. Congratulations to Michael on this terrific news!
(more...)Paul Hogins of the Orange County Register has an in-depth story about the success of Jersey Boys that includes interviews with Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Des McAnuff, and Erich Bergen. Valli had only one request about the show, which aimed to tell the story of the rise and fall of his legendary pop group, The [...]
(more...)Playbillarts.com reports that the Young People’s Chorus of New York City raised nearly $1 million in a single evening last month. Francisco J. Núñez, the ensemble’s founder and artistic director, announced today that the group’s 10th annual benefit gala, held on October 22 in Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall and at the nearby New [...]
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