Jersey Boys Blog

Jersey Boys had another fantastic week at the August Wilson Theatre, grossing $1,182,360 for the week ending December 17, 2006! The show also had the highest seating capacity of any show on Broadway–100.7%. For the week ending 12/17/06, Broadway box office grosses totaled $20,381,607 for the 32 shows on the boards. Below are the Top [...]

TONIGHT–John Lloyd Young will perform the national anthem at the Nets-Warriors game, which is scheduled to start at 7:30 PM at the Continental Airlines Arena.

Jersey Boys Podcast #30 has been released and includes Christy and Steve’s review of the Jersey Boys national tour San Francisco last preview performance; a short preview of “Come Si Bella” from Tommy DeVito’s new CD; and Part 2 of 2 of a recent radio interview with Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio from Ron Owens’ [...]

Daniel Reichard will present his “Christmas in Black and White” concert tomorrow night, December 18 at the Metropolitan Room. Reichard’s latest concert, described as “a throwback to those great old black-and-white television specials,” will feature a mix of standards and holiday tunes from the forties, fifties and sixties. The singing actor will be backed by [...]

Donald Munro of The Fresno Bee asked if all the hoopla about Jersey Boys is worth it? If you grew up with Valli and The Four Seasons and have a strong affinity for the music, quite possibly. Skillfully staged, briskly acted and reasonably well sung, Jersey Boys is more than just a standard-issue jukebox musical. [...]

John Lloyd Young will join Hairspray star Darlene Love for her annual Christmas show “Love for the Holidays” at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center at 7:30PM on Sunday, December 17. For tickets, call 212-721-6500 or visit www.jalc.org.

CBS5.com in San Francisco has posted an insightful interview with pop music icon Frankie Valli. Valli talks about his childhood in the Newark, New Jersey projects; his beginnings as a young singer; his amazing falsetto; the success of Jersey Boys; and so much more. So, what is a Jersey Boy, you ask? It all goes [...]

BroadwayWorld.com reports that Christian Hoff recently completed the audio book entitled Tell Me How You Love The Picture, written by Academy Award Nominee Edward S. Feldman. “Known as the man of many voices, Hoff expects to set a Guinness World Record for Most Character Voices in an Audio Book-Individual. Next week in London, the producers [...]

BeyondChron.org’s Buzzin’ Lee Hartgrave says that JERSEY BOYS gives new meaning to the word “Blockbuster”. It’s a skillfully told story of four boys from New Jersey, who used to sing their harmonies under a streetlight to become the world famous group known as The Four Seasons. The story is not only wonderfully poignant, but mind [...]

After a four-hour flight delay, we finally arrived in San Francisco last night! Before we take in this amazing city (and count down the hours until tonight’s performance), I thought I’d see what’s up in the news related to Jersey Boys! More RED HOT reviews to be posted soon!!

BroadwayWorld’s Eugene Lovendusky states that night after night, the audience in San Francisco’s Curran Theatre doesn’t even ask permission to applaud…they just do! In the middle of songs no less, they’re on their feet, swimming in the ubiquitous sound of The Four Seasons during the first tour engagement of the Tony Award-winning musical, Jersey Boys. [...]

Marin Independent Journal’s Charles Brousse notes that Sunday was nostalgia night at the Curran Theatre. The aging boomers who packed the house for the long-anticipated opening of a show that celebrates one of America’s best-loved musical eras literally “went ape” (an endearing term borrowed from the historical setting) even before their idols appeared…Whether spurred by [...]

Playbill.com reports that for the sixth consecutive week, Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording remains at the Number Two position on the Billboard Top Cast Album chart. Here’s the latest Top 5 Broadway Cast Album list from Billboard: Wicked Jersey Boys Mama Mia! Spamalot The Lion King

Playbill.com reports that John Lloyd Young — the Tony Award-winning star of Broadway’s Jersey Boys — will head to the Garden State Dec. 18 to open the NBA’s New Jersey Nets-Golden State Warriors game. Young will perform the national anthem at the Nets-Warriors game, which is scheduled to start at 7:30 PM at the Continental [...]

Along with the year-end summary, check out the amazing Jersey Boys CBS News photo essay featuring the original Four Seasons, the four leads who play the pop icons, and the many celebrities that attended opening night festivities on November 6, 2005.

CBSNews.com’s year-end roundup of the Great White Way noted that it was the lads from the Garden State in Jersey Boys and the guys from Britain in The History Boys who dominated what was new on Broadway in 2006. The shows won Tony Awards for best musical and best play, respectively. Both also were rewarded [...]

The critics are giving a unanimous thumbs-up to Jersey Boys at the Curran Theatre. Here’s a bit of what Richard Dobbs of the Bay Area reporter had to say: Even while acknowledging that the opening-night audience for Jersey Boys was thick with partisans, the roars that erupted at key moments can’t be chalked up to [...]

After attending Sunday’s opening night performance, InsideBayArea.com’s critic Chad Jones gave Jersey Boys a four-star review! Well, on his Theater Dogs blog, Jones continues to sing the praises of the national tour production, the four young talented actors playing the pop icons, the Four Seasons, and the audience’s reaction to this phenomenal show. Here’s a [...]

Lisa Millegan of the Modesto Bee notes that the fans leapt to their feet with the amazing story and music in Jersey Boys at the Curran Theatre. Millegan states: Its unsanitized account of the group’s rise to fame may surprise fans who remember only the innocent lyrics about breakups and twist parties. A sign in [...]