Jersey Boys Blog

Jersey Boys Blog wishes Bob Gaudio a Happy Birthday! On November 17, 1942, original Four Seasons member Bob Gaudio was born. He shot to musical fame at the age of 15 as a member of the Royal Teens when he wrote the hit “Short Shorts.” As we all know from Jersey Boys, following a chance [...]

On November 17, 1962, “Big Girls Don’t Cry” by the Four Seasons hit Number One on the Billboard charts and remained at the top of the charts for FIVE consecutive weeks from November 17, 1962-December 21, 1962. The song became a certified gold single by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Source: Joel Whitburn’s [...]

Playbill.com reports that Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording remains at Number Two for the second consecutive on Billboard’s Cast Album List. Here’s a look at Billboard’s Top 5 Broadway Cast Albums for this week (completely unchanged from last week): Wicked Jersey Boys Mama Mia! A Chorus Line The Lion King

Jersey Boys Blog is excited to present an interview with Jersey Boys national tour swing cast member Taylor Sternberg! Taylor talks about what sparked his dreams to be a performer; what he’s done so far; how his improv training will help him in the many roles he’ll be playing in JB; and so much more! [...]

In a Q&A session in Brown Alumni Magazine (BAM), John Lloyd Young replies to some very interesting questions. Here’s a sample of what JLY had to say: BAM: Any roles you crave? YOUNG: Classic characters really struggling with something, such as Oswald in Ghosts. But I love the process of creating a new character, especially [...]

Variety’s Phil Gallo reports that former “Frasier” producer-writer David Lee will direct and write a new book for the Cole Porter musical Can Can that will have its world premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse next summer. The creative team will include Steve Orich as musical director and orchestrator, Roy Christopher as set designer, and Randy [...]

Check out BroadwayWorld.com’s photos of John Lloyd Young and many of today’s other big-voiced Broadway stars as they strutted their stuff on the acoustically-perfect Town Hall stage on Monday, November 13 at 8 PM in “Broadway Unplugged,” a concert of all-Broadway music performed as it was in the days before microphones. Also, take a look [...]

Jennifer Naimo has posted a fun slide show from Jersey Boys’ First Anniversary celebration that was held at Gallagher’s on Sunday evening!

In the latest issue of Brown Alumni Magazine, writer Joel Cohen profiles 1998 Brown grad John Lloyd Young. Along with highlighting Young’s early years in Plattsburg, New York, Cohen talks to Young about his amazing journey playing Frankie Valli in the megahit musical Jersey Boys. The show, which chronicles the rise and fall of the [...]

In addition to celebrating their first anniversary on Broadway last week, Jersey Boys also broke another house record at the August Wilson Theatre, grossing $1,175,005 for the week ending 11/12/06. The show also had the highest seating capacity of any show on Broadway (100.7%), and for the eighth consecutive week, Jersey Boys was one of [...]

BroadwayWorld.com provides some incredible photo coverage of the Jersey Boys national tour press rehearsal that was held last week! Directed by two-time Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff, Jersey Boys will begin at the Curran Theatre in December, 2006 (previews begin December 1, opening night is December 10, and the production runs through February 11, 2007). [...]

On Monday, November 20, Daniel Reichard will be the special guest at “Debra & Mary’s Night on the Town,” at 8:30PM at “The Night and Day Room” at Biscuit BBQ in Park Slope Brooklyn. Each week, Debra Barsha (pianist, composer of Radiant Baby) and Mary Cleere Haran (“America’s most literate chanteuse”–the New Yorker) sing original [...]

Christian Hoff and Daniel Reichard will be among the stars performing tomorrow evening at the Lauri Strauss Leukemia Foundation 17th Gala Benefit Concert! The concert will take place at 7:30PM at Carnegie Hall! Christian and Daniel will be performing a medley of Marvin Hamlisch tunes arranged by Ron Melrose and orchestrated by Steve Orich! Other [...]

Jersey Boys Blog wishes Bob Crewe a Happy 75th Birthday! Bob Crewe was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1985. While Crewe is perhaps best remembered for the parade of hits he co-wrote with Four Seasons member Bob Gaudio, his music career began much earlier. Crewe, a Newark, New Jersey native who got [...]

John Lloyd Young will be performing tomorrow night at the Third Annual Broadway Unplugged concert! The event begins at 8PM at Town Hall, located at 123 W. 43rd Street. For ticket and other information on the event, visit the Broadway Unplugged site.

The Sun-Sentinel reports that Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Frankie Valli will be this year’s Winterfest Boat Parade grand marshal in Southern Florida. This year’s parade theme will be “Broadway on the Waterway.” The parade will begin at 6:30 p.m. December 16 and will include up to 100 decorated vessels. They will glide north [...]

Matthew Scott reports on his news page that he will be performing the role of Frankie at the Wednesday matinee on November 15th. Also, check out the photo of himself, Christian Hoff, and Daniel Reichard with original Annie star Andrea McArdle at Actors’ Fund Benefit Performance of The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas.

On November 9th, Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff was honored with a caricature at the legendary Sardi’s Restaurant in New York. His caricature now joins many other Broadway luminaries on the wall of Sardi’s for everyone to see. Check out extensive photo coverage of the event on Playbill.com, Broadway.com, BroadwayWorld.com, and Theatermania.com. Also, visit Jennifer [...]

Check out Theatermania.com’s photo of Jersey Boys director Des McAnuff, who was joined by the show’s Broadway leads — J. Robert Spencer, Daniel Reichard, Christian Hoff, and John Lloyd Young — for the unveiling of his caricature at Sardi’s. Also on Theatermania.com– another press day photo of Jersey Boys national tour stars Erich Bergen (Bob [...]