Jersey Boys Blog

For a second consecutive week, Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording is Number 3 with a bullet on Billboard’s Top Broadway Album Charts. Billboard Magazine’s Top 10 Broadway Albums for the week of April 22, 2005 are as follows: Wicked Mama Mia! Jersey Boys The Color Purple Spamalot Rent: The Best of Highlights Hairspray Phantom of [...]

Broadwayworld.com News Desk reports that Jersey Boys Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, J. Robert Spencer, and John Lloyd Young, along with Michael Cerveris, Kelli O’Hara, and several other Broadway stars have been announced as the hosts of the “20th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition,” which will be presented on Monday, April 24th at 4:30 PM and Tuesday, [...]

Check out these great photos from Broadway.com of “wild and crazy guy” Steve Martin with co-writer Marshall Brickman and the cast of Jersey Boys. Meeting Steve Martin was a special treat for Daniel Reichard, who confessed that the comedian/actor is his favorite performer! A Jersey Boys Blog visitor reported that late last month, she saw [...]

As reported earlier, in its May 2006 “Best of America” issue, Reader’s Digest named John Lloyd Young America’s best alter ego for his work as Frankie Valli in the smash hit musical, Jersey Boys. Senior staff editor Maureen Mackey spoke with him recently backstage in New York, just a few hours before showtime. Listen to [...]

New York Daily News reporter Owen Moritz reports that Jersey Boys star John Lloyd Young is among the best of what New York has to offer—and, he’s also a member of the “America’s 100 Best” list compiled by the editors of Reader’s Digest. Young, who plays Frankie Valli on Broadway, is listed as “best alter [...]

As posted earlier, Jersey Boys fan Erin Kuntzelman is creating an appreciation book for the cast and crew of Jersey Boys!! Erin is still looking for more contributors for her appreciation book and would like you to share your stories related to Jersey Boys! For example, it’d be great if you could e-mail Erin your [...]

Playbill.com’s Robert Simonson reports that The Drama League has announced the nominations for its 2006 awards for best play, musical, revival of a play and revival of a musical. The megahit musical Jersey Boys is among six shows nominated for the “Distinguished Production of a Musical” award. Other nominees include The Color Purple, The Drowsy [...]

Gary Wien’s interview on Upstagemagazine.com with John Lloyd Young provides some interesting insight into everything from Young’s gig as an usher handing out programs at a Broadway theatre a year ago to being one of the hottest new stars on the Great White Way in this season’s hottest show, Jersey Boys. Reflecting on his days [...]

Jersey Boys Podcast has released the first in a series of several in-person interviews with Jersey Boys cast members. The first interview is with John Lloyd Young, who talks about his favorite thing about playing Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys; how he got started in theatre; some of his goals as an actor; and his [...]

Broadwayworld.com reports that the Jersey Boys cast will make an appearance with several other Broadway stars at “Broadway Salutes Yiddish: A Benefit for the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre” on Monday, June 12 at 7:30 PM at Town Hall (126 West 43rd Street).

In the latest episodes of “The Sopranos,” Johnny Sack pressures Tony Soprano to get rid of Rusty Milio (played by Frankie Valli). After some discussion, looks like Tony and Christopher Moltisanti have lined up some Italians to finally take care of Rusty. If you’d like to see a video clip of Valli’s April 9 appearance [...]

In a review calling Lestat, the new musical currently in previews “hilariously bad,” Fox News’ Roger Friedman notes that Broadway is about to have a very weird couple of weeks leading up to the Tony deadline. Some shows, like The Drowsy Chaperone and The Threepenny Opera are warmly anticipated, while others are not. According to [...]

4/17/06: Daniel Reichard will serve as one of three leading men backing up Steven Brinberg at “Simply Barbra: Wait Til We’re 64–The Birthday Concert” at Birdland. 4/24/06: Michael Longoria will be performing a set of his original songs at CB’s Gallery at 8 PM. 5/5/06: The Jersey Boys will serve as honorary co-chairs at the [...]

Looks like quite a few people spent their Easter weekend enjoying a variety of Broadway shows. For the week ending 4/16/2006, Broadway grosses totaled $20,296,779, climbing over $2.1 million over the previous week for the 34 shows on the boards. As reported earlier today, Jersey Boys broke another house record at the August Wilson, grossing [...]

THIS JUST IN: Broadwayworld.com News Desk reports that Jersey Boys has set a new house record at the August Wilson Theatre, grossing $1,013,616 for the week ending April 16, 2006. Official Broadway grosses will be posted on Jersey Boys Blog as soon as they become available.

Here’s another amazing Youtube.com video clip of the original Four Seasons (Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, Nick Massi, and Frankie Valli) on “Hullabaloo!” in 1965 singing “Dawn,” “Rag Doll,” “Toy Soldier,” and “Bye, Bye Baby.”

On this week’s “Broadway Beat,“ available on streaming video on Broadwayworld.com, host Richard Ridge features some very entertaining highlights from the April 6 Dancing on Broadway/Drama Desk Panel at Sardi’s. Jersey Boys’ John Lloyd Young and the hit show’s choreographer Sergio Trujillo are among the guests talking to Ridge about dancing on the Broadway stage.

Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording has jumped up to the Number 3 position for the week of April 15, 2006 on Billboard’s Top Broadway Album Charts after dropping to Number 4 last week. Billboard Magazine’s Top 10 Broadway Albums list for this week are listed below: Wicked Mama Mia Jersey Boys! The Color Purple Spamalot [...]

Check out Broadwayworld.com’s photo of John Lloyd Young dining with Kara Angelastro. Ms. Angelastro was the first winner of a BC/EFA auction to have lunch with John Lloyd Young at Tony’s Di Napoli restaurant. Ms. Angelo was very excited that she won the auction and stated, “I am always thrilled to help out a good [...]