BroadwayWorld.com reports that the Original Broadway Cast Recording of Jersey Boys, produced by Bob Gaudio and recipient of the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album, celebrates 100 weeks on Billboard’s “Top Cast Albums” chart! Additionally, for the third consecutive week, the album maintains the number one position at the top of the chart. [...]
(more...)Fall semester is bringing out more aspiring Jersey Boys on Youtube! Check out four guys from Hillcrest High School singing “Sherry” and “Who Loves You”!
(more...)Visit BroadwayWorld.com for photo coverage of the Jersey Boys Chicago cast members Steven M. Goldsmith, Drew Gehling, John Hickman, and Ryan Quinn West throwing out the opening puck at the Blackhawks ice hockey game on December 9.
(more...)Broadway.com reports that Sebastian Arcelus has signed on to play Bob Gaudio in the Broadway cast of Jersey Boys, beginning January 10, 2008. Daniel Reichard, who originated the role, will play his final performance in the Tony-winning musical on January 9. Arcelus will join Tony winner Christian Hoff (Tommy DeVito) and J. Robert Spencer (Nick [...]
(more...)Listen to a short radio interview with Jersey Boys national tour cast members on 710 KIRO hosted by Tom Tangney in Seattle!
(more...)Here’s a home video of a medley of Four Seasons Christmas songs. Check it out!
(more...)Jersey Boys national tour cast member Taylor Sternberg reports that he has “heard the call”! With Eric Gutman leaving the national tour to go to Broadway, Taylor will now be taking over as the “tour” blogger. Check out his Tour THAT blog!
(more...)For the 28th time, Jersey Boys broke the August Wilson Theatre house record for the grossing $1,367,780 (and a 100.7% attendance rate) for the week ending December 9, 2007! Total grosses for the week were $19,709,595 for the 34 shows on the boards for the week ending 12/09/07. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from [...]
(more...)In an article on KHNL.com, reporter Leland Kim noted that more than 180,000 people saw The Lion King at the Neal Blaisdell Center. It grossed close to $15 million, and pumped $45 million to the local economy. Mayor Mufi Hannemann said The Lion King’s success shows Hawaii can host a major Broadway musical. “Certainly this [...]
(more...)SeattlePI.com Theater Joe Adcock states that Jersey Boys is a perfect stage musical! Energetic performers belt out the songs. Christopher Kale Jones plays Frankie Valli, the lead singer with the amazing falsetto. Erich Bergen, Steve Gouveia and Deven May play the rest of the sometimes harmonious and sometimes unruly quartet. A versatile cast of secondary [...]
(more...)Jersey Boys, more than anything, feels like the Tony Award-winning “Behind the Music” musical. This one happens to be about The Four Seasons. When four blue-collar kids dodge prison to form a white doo wop band, meet up with producer Bob Crewe, and sell 175 million records worldwide before they’re 30, the announcer in your [...]
(more...)Seattle Times theater critic Misha Berson notes that for anyone with a broad appreciation of rock ‘n’ roll Americana, the Broadway show Jersey Boys is more than a vastly entertaining musical. It is something of a revelation. This stage phenom about the rise of the Four Seasons pop quartet — the 2006 Tony winner for [...]
(more...)By Cathi Aradi, Jersey Boys Blog Special Correspondent A great meeting of the minds (and hearts) of Jersey Boys’ fans took place in San Francisco on Saturday 12/8. The stars were in alignment as Irene and Buz Eisen flew in to catch the new production at the Curran. JB Blog fans Irene and Buz from [...]
(more...)Following Jersey Boys’ national tour cast member Eric Gutman’s Tour This blog has been a blast over the last year. Well, Eric has posted BIG news this morning! After performance #390 this evening with the national tour, he will be leaving to join Jersey Boys on Broadway! Check out Eric’s JBB Exclusive Interview from last [...]
(more...)Thank you to Four Seasons’ historian David Cace for this amazing piece of 4 Seasons’ memorabilia!
(more...)Seattle Gay News has a terrific interview with Jersey Boys national tour cast member Courter Simmons! Courter, who plays the real-life person Joe Pesci in the upcoming Seattle production of JB, wants the audience to know that “the thing that hooks audiences is that it’s music that they love, but it’s also a fantastic story, [...]
(more...)SeattlePI.com’s Theater Critic Joe Adcock has an interesting interview with Jersey Boys’ co-author Marshall Brickman. According to Adcock, creating a stage musical is not, normally, hazardous. Maybe you deal with some dangerous characters. But Nazis likely are not going to come after producers of “Cabaret” or “The Sound of Music” just because those plays portray [...]
(more...)According to Playbill.com, for the second consecutive week, Rhino’s Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording holds the Number One position on the Billboard Cast Album Chart! Below are the Top 5 Cast Albums from Billboard: Jersey Boys Wicked Legally Blonde The Lion King Mama Mia!
(more...)Las Vegas Sun reporter Jerry Fink notes that Las Vegas crowds have a habit of sending Broadway musicals packing. Even The Producers will join the conga line that’s left Las Vegas in the past two years – Hairspray,Avenue Q and the Queen-based musical We Will Rock You, not technically a Broadway show but with Broadway [...]
(more...)
Posts Via RSS:
