Jersey Boys Blog

For the second week in September, JERSEY BOYS Broadway grossed $806,153 and had a 81.5% attendance rate. The 23 shows on the boards grossed $14,305,212, dropping over 19.5% from the previous week’s totals. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending September 11, 2011. The Lion King $1,299,169 The Book Of [...]

The first single Tommy DeVito, Bob Gaudio, Nick Massi, and Frankie Valli released under the new name “The Four Seasons” was not “Sherry,” the song that topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for five weeks back in 1962. Their first single was actually “Bermuda,” a song that the group released back in 1961 on George [...]

Bob Gaudio Found this fabulous archive online! John Gilliland’s “The Pop Chronicles” traces the history of popular music from the 1950’s through the 1960’s. Mr. Gilliland wrote, narrated and produced these 55 hours of broadcasting first airing at KRLA in Pasadena in February 1969. On Track 3, The Four Seasons (Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, Joe [...]

Forty-nine years ago today, The Four Seasons’ had their first chart-topping hit, “Sherry”! The song remained in the Number One position for five consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. As we know from JERSEY BOYS, Bob Gaudio says, “Two takes on a Sunday afternoon. And then the whole world exploded” Here’s the rest [...]

(Photo Credits: #1: Totorelief.com; #2: Joan Marcus) From Broadway.com: Broadway favorite Andy Karl and Jersey Boys tour vet Quinn VanAntwerp have been tapped to star as Tommy DeVito and Bob Gaudio, respectively, in the Broadway company of Jersey Boys, beginning October 11. The show is headed toward its sixth anniversary at the August Wilson Theatre, [...]

From BroadwayWorld.com: JERSEY BOYS – The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, which opened September, 2010 at Sydney’s Theatre Royal will be one of the longest running musicals in the history of the venue, breaking the Theatre Royal’s weekly Box Office records as the highest grossing in the theatre’s history. Since opening in [...]

As recently reported, Santa Claus will be making a very special delivery to Jersey Boys and Four Seasons’ fans across the globe earlier than usual this year! On October 4, Rhino will release SEASON’S GREETINGS: A JERSEY BOYS CHRISTMAS! The Jersey Boys Christmas album hit the “trifecta,” to quote Tommy DeVito, with three Grammy Award-winning [...]

From Don411.com: The Columbus premiere of the Tony, Grammy, and Olivier Award-winning hit musical Jersey Boys entertained more than 50,000 patrons over its recent three-week engagement at the Ohio Theatre, generating an estimated $14 million in economic impact for the city of Columbus. “The entire community benefits when Jersey Boys tours,” said Bill Conner, President [...]

Las Vegas Review-Journal entertainment reporter Mike Weatherford talks about the 10-year “tragicomic” history of failure for the 1,200-seat theatre in the Paris Hotel & Casino. Over the past decade, a number of shows have come & gone including “We Will Rock You,” “The Producers,” and most recently veteran entertainer Barry Manilow, who only plays under [...]

The Broadway League hosted a special event on Friday, September 9, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. in Duffy Square, as the Broadway community marked the tenth anniversary of 9/11. This event was an encore of the iconic performance that took place one decade ago when Broadway performers helped inspire New Yorkers to return to normalcy with [...]

Jeff Korbelik of the Lincoln Journal Star notes that he rarely sees musicals a second time; however, he’ll be making a return trip to see JERSEY BOYS! Check out why: The touring cast is exceptional, sounding just like the Four Seasons. Joseph Leo Bwarie leads the way with a dead-on falsetto of Valli. Matt Bailey [...]

(Photo Credits: Photos 1-6: Pamela Singer; Photos 7-17: Peter James Zielinski–For full coverage of the event, click HERE) By Pamela Singer, Jersey Boys Blog Special Correspondent Here’s the music trivia question of the day, friends. What happens when the cast of Broadway’s Tony-Award-winning musical about one of rock and roll’s greatest groups ever, comes together [...]

Let’s go back to 1987 for Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons’ fantastic appearance on “The Late Show” with host Joan Rivers! How about that horn section?

For the first week in September, JERSEY BOYS Broadway grossed $899,240 and had a 89.7% attendance rate. The 23 shows on the boards grossed $18,454,882, climbing just over 37% from the previous week’s totals. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending September 4, 2011. Wicked $1,602,104 The Lion King $1,592,469 [...]

Marvelous coverage all over Omaha with the JB national tour’s debut in Nebraska this week! Below is a preview to Michael Kelly’s write-up at the JERSEY BOYS “launch party” for the nonprofit Omaha Performing Arts that featured several cast members Denise Payne, Quinn VanAntwerp, and Kevin Worley. Check out the excerpt below: “It’s so nice [...]

Warren Francke has a terrific interview with the “Frankie Valli” of the JERSEY BOYS national tour company–Joseph Leo Bwarie! Here’s a preview of the interview: And you’ll see him on stage at the Orpheum for all but nine minutes of the two-and-a-half hour show. “There’s only one time that I’m off stage and don’t have [...]

The Omaha engagement JERSEY BOYS begins tonight at the Orpheum. The JB national tour Four Seasons (Matt Bailey, Joseph Leo Bwarie, Quinn VanAntwerp, and Adam Zelasko) stopped by The Morning Blend this morning! Click HERE to watch this fun interview!

Jersey Boys Las Vegas cast members performed an amazing rendition of the National Anthem at the Las Vegas 51s game at Labor Day at Cashman Field!

Joseph Leo Bwarie (Photo by: Joan Marcus) Omaha is getting excited for the JERSEY BOYS first national tour’s debut this week! BWW Omaha columnist Analisa Swerczekhas a terrific in-depth interview with Joseph Leo Bwarie Here’s a preview: BWW: It must be a show that many people can relate to given the audience reactions, which range [...]