In a recent interview with the Kansas City Star, former Oklahoma Sooners and Dallas Cowboys football coach Barry Switzer talked about his retirement, and suprisingly the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys. Switzer noted that he saw Jersey Boys last week on Broadway and stated, “Let me tell you something, this is the best Broadway [...]
(more...)On a recent thread on BroadwayWorld.com’s message board, Erich Bergen has posted photos from Jersey Boys national tour’s tech rehearsals. Check them out!
(more...)Dayton City Paper’s Russell Florence, Jr. has a fascinating interview with Michael Ingersoll, who plays Nick Massi in Jersey Boys national tour. When Kettering native Ingersoll took on the starring role in a recent Chicago production of Tick, Tick… Boom!, Chicago Sun-Times critic Hedy Weiss offered a bit of sound advice that would inadvertently catapult [...]
(more...)On this week’s “Broadway Beat,” you can catch scenes and interviews with Jersey Boys national tour cast members Erich Bergen (Bob Gaudio), Christopher Kale Jones (Frankie Valli), Michael Ingersoll (Nick Massi), and Deven May (Tommy DeVito). In addition, you’ll see interviews with director Des McAnuff and choreographer Sergio Trujillo.
(more...)In case you missed last night’s Jersey Boys national tour first preview, cast member Eric Gutman’s blog fills everyone in on last night’s performance; Thursday’s dress rehearsal; the previous weeks’ tech rehearsals; and so much more. It’s an amazing behind the scenes look at one actor’s extraordinary experience with Jersey Boys!
(more...)It’s less than an hour until the Jersey Boys national tour kicks off their first preview performance at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco! Monsters and Critics.com and The Daily Californian provide updates about the JB national tour on their websites this week. Jersey Boys Blog wishes the national tour cast and crew all the [...]
(more...)Playbill.com reports that Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording remains at the Number Two position on the Billboard Top Cast Album chart for the fourth consecutive week. Here’s the latest Top 5 Broadway Cast Album list from Billboard: Wicked Jersey Boys Mama Mia! The Lion King A Chorus Line
(more...)Wow! Check out this beautiful jacket with the hand painted Jersey Boys logo design donated by Damaris Dugan for the BC/EFA auction. You can bid on this and other Jersey Boys-related memorabilia on ebay!
(more...)Richard Dobbs of the Bay Area Reporter provides an in-depth look at Jersey Boys, the 2006 Best Musical Tony Award winner that launches its national tour in San Francisco tomorrow. Ironically, director Des McAnuff, whose Broadway credits include Big River and The Who’s Tommy, summarily rejected the idea for a Four Seasons musical when writers [...]
(more...)Theatermania.com reports that 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. Along with JLY, Love will be joined by her Hairspray co-star Tevin Campbell, musician Paul Shaffer, R&B and gospel [...]
(more...)In today’s New York Post, gossip columnist Cindy Adams has a tidbit about Frankie Valli: FRANKIE Valli’s four recent Lincoln Center shots included an onstage drop-in from the Jersey Boys. The engagement was SRO. Before this hotshot show about his life hit Broadway, Frankie – whom everyone loved but nobody was booking – might’ve had [...]
(more...)Check out John Lloyd Young at the “Leslie Kritzer is Patti LuPone at Les Mouches” performance at Joe’s Pub last Sunday night on BroadwayWorld.com!
(more...)On Monday evening, December 4, Sara Schmidt will be among the performers that will help celebrate the second year anniversary of the acclaimed series, “Monday Nights, New Voices.” Produced by composer Scott Alan, the celebrated evening will find “New Voices” alumni teaming up on duets with past hosts. Showtime is 7pm at the Duplex Cabaret [...]
(more...)As reported earlier, Jersey Boys broke another house record at the August Wilson Theatre, grossing $1,182,602 (100.7% attendance rate) for the week ending 11/26/06. Thanksgiving week on Broadway was outstanding–with box office grosses totaling $23,349,774 for the week ending 11/26/06 for the 33 shows on the boards. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com [...]
(more...)The latest Jersey Boys Podcast has been posted! This podcast includes: Christy’s interview with Jersey Boys band members Ken and Kevin Dow; music from the Jersey Boys Thanksgiving Day TV appearance; audio from Peter Gregus’ focus segment from ABC TV’s Broadway Fall Preview; and audio from Christian Hoff’s recent appearance on PBS TV’s Theater Talk.
(more...)Off Broadway’s Altar Boyz had a special guest backstage when one of the original Jersey Boys, Frankie Valli, paid the cast a visit. Altar Boyz’ Landon Beard toured with Valli prior to joining the Altar Boyz cast. Check out the backstage photo from Playbill.com!
(more...)BroadwayWorld.com reports that the Broadway hit Jersey Boys, winner of the 2006 Best Musical Tony Award about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, has set a new house record at the August Wilson Theatre, marking the 19th time the show has topped itself since it opened in November, 2005. The gross for the record-breaking week [...]
(more...)Playbill.com reports that Rhino’s release of 2006′s Tony Award-winning Best Musical Jersey Boys Cast Recording remains at the Number Two position for the third straight week on Billboard’s Cast Album List. Here’s a look at Billboard’s Top 5 Broadway Cast Albums for this week: Wicked Jersey Boys Mama Mia! The Lion King The Color Purple
(more...)Reuters.com’s Frank Scheck noted that if the audience could have moved fast enough, they would have experienced a bizarre show business form of double vision Wednesday night in New York. That’s because Jersey Boys, the hit musical depicting the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, was playing on Broadway, while the real thing [...]
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