Jersey Boys Blog

(Photo: Stan Behal/Sun Media) Toronto Sun Columnist John Coulbourn has an in-depth interview with Toronto’s Tommy DeVito–Jeremy Kushnier! According to Coulbourn, Kushnier is a Jersey boy through and through. Which is kind of strange, when you think about it, considering that Kushnier got his start in Winnipeg. Yet, as anyone who has caught Kushnier’s performance [...]

Many JERSEY BOYS cast members all over the map have been doing a great job keeping everyone posted on their blogs! Jersey Boys Toronto’s “Frankie” Jeff Madden’s “Taking the Wheel” blog is giving everyone an inside look into the Toronto JB experience! Some of my favorite posts include How I Got to Jersey, You want [...]

(Photo: NationalPost.com) In her Business, News & People column, Diane Francis has a feature on Aubrey Dan, a promising impresario who bought a small piece of Broadway smash “Jersey Boys” and brought it to Toronto for a sell-out run which is attracting 10,000 people a week. Francis notes that she has seen both productions and [...]

We’ve said it all along–JERZY BOYZ are ubiquitous! And, no, Spell Check didn’t miss that! This time, I mean JERZY BOYZ with a “Z”–the fruit farmers with the absolutely best apples and pears you’ll EVER taste! The New Year started out on a healthy note for us this year, with an absolutely enormous and wonderful [...]

We would like to send Happy Birthday greetings to Broadway’s matinee “Frankie”–the amazingly talented Dominic Scaglione, Jr.! Dominic Scaglione, Jr. with mom, Kathy and sister, Christina (Photo courtesy of Audrey Rockman).

Brad Hundt of the Observer-Reporter raves about the Pittsburgh production of JERSEY BOYS! According to Hundt, “Jersey Boys” could be boiled down to a simple equation. Take the no-bull New Jersey swagger of “The Sopranos,” and add the Kennedy-era fashions of “Mad Men” and the rags-to-riches-to-rags storytelling of VH1′s “Behind the Music,” and you get [...]

From SuburbanChicagoNews.com: The Arcada Theatre will welcome the four stars of the hit musical “Jersey Boys” and other celebs at 6 p.m. Jan. 18. The event will benefit the Arcada Theatre Renovations Fund. The benefit will feature a wine and cheese reception on the main stage along with a behind-the-scenes experience with the actors as [...]

In their latest example of cross-border cooperation, two entertainment industry charities are sharing $32,000 after cast members of the US national touring company of Jersey Boys collected donations from audiences during their stop in Toronto in the last two weeks of November. The Toronto-based Actors’ Fund of Canada and New York-based Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS [...]

The second week of 2009 continued to be strong at the box office for Jersey Boys Broadway. For the week ending January 11, 2009, the show grossed $1,064,072 and had a 98.8% attendance rate. The 23 shows on the boards grossed $15,896,576, down nearly 30% from the previous big holiday week. Below are the Top [...]

Here’s Star 100.7′s video interview with Erik Bates, Joseph Leo Bwarie, Josh Franklin and Steve Gouveia.

Jersey Boys Toronto will be appearing on CTV’s ‘CANADA AM’ Thursday morning, January 15th at 8AM!

Tribune-Review Theater Critic Alice T. Carter says JERSEY BOYS is just too good to be true. It’s a musical with songs you know, love and want to hear again integrated into a story you don’t know, but get caught up in. Rather than drop another quarter into the jukebox to create yet another and-then-we-wrote musical [...]

Check out this amazing performance of the West End JERSEY BOYS on The Alan Titchmarsh Show! Reminder!! Vote for JERSEY BOYS on the WhatsOnStage online ballot form! Voting closes January 31, 2009. Winners will be announced on February 9, 2009!

Jean Horne of the Tribune-Review tells readers to massage the Master Card and run, do not walk, to see the phenomenal production of JERSEY BOYS! Oh, what a night! Dazzling, electrifying, over the moon and the hit songs keep coming in “Jersey Boys” that opened Friday night at the Benedum Center. The rags-to-riches story of [...]

We all already knew that Frankie Valli has the absolute greatest falsetto of all time, right? Well, blogger Mike Brooks has posted his list of Top Ten Falsettos in Pop and Rock History and Frankie tops his list, too! 1. Frankie Valli – Yes, Valli sometimes comes across a bit screechy, but no singer legitimized [...]

The Genesis: Everything Happens for a Reason, or Does It? I was in Ireland on business a few weeks back, but the flights from the New York airports directly to Cork, Ireland were too expensive for my company’s computer, which tracks for the least expensive rates, so my connections to and from were through London. [...]

Michelle Alexandria of Eclipse Magazine said Jersey Boys in Vegas at the Palazzo was the best show she has seen in years! Here’s a preview to her rave review: The show starts off with a bang, it’s some band doing a modernized version of December 1963 – in French. It was hot, my eyes popped [...]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Sharon Eberson states that Bob Gaudio, who wrote the Four Seasons songs that Frankie Valli’s soaring voice helped take to the top of the charts, and Joseph Leo Bwarie, who plays Frankie in the touring company of the Tony-winning “Jersey Boys,” made the same point in separate conversations, using different cultural touchstones. The [...]

The first week of 2009 was a great one for Jersey Boys Broadway! For the week ending January 4, 2009, the show grossed $1,248,236 and had a 101% attendance rate. The 31 shows on the boards also enjoyed a terrific week, grossing $25,690,836. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending [...]