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Jersey Boys cast members will be making appearances at events throughout New York City over the next month. Below are some announcements about upcoming events: 2/27/06: John Lloyd Young will be among the performers making a special appearance at the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) in the one-night-only benefit concert, The Best of Fest [...]

On last night’s Late Show with David Letterman, musical director and sidekick Paul Shaffer couldn’t curb his enthusiasm as he talked about the night’s appearance from the cast of Jersey Boys! Shaffer raved to Letterman about how poignant show is and how you will laugh and cry when you see it (all true!), and how [...]

Looks like the NYC blizzard didn’t keep fans away from the Great White Way. From tables available from Broadwaywold.com, grosses for most shows perked up even more week, with grosses totaling $16,497,524 for the week ending February 19, 2006. Jersey Boys had another outstanding week, grossing $922,844 and selling 9,429 tickets, an increase of over [...]

Both Broadwayworld.com and Playbill.com report that John Lloyd Young, currently starring as Frankie Valli in Broadway’s hit musical Jersey Boys, will have his caricature unveiled at Sardi’s Restaurant on Thursday, February 23, 2006 at a 5PM presentation. Young will join Broadway luminaries who have been honored on the famous wall of Sardi’s, a Broadway landmark [...]

From Broadwayworld.com News Desk: The cast of Broadway’s Jersey Boys will perform on CBS’s “Late Show with David Letterman” tonight Tuesday, February 21 between 11:35pm and 12:35am (Eastern). Stars Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, J. Robert Spencer and John Lloyd Young will lead the cast in performing several Four Seasons tunes from the hit Broadway musical.

Broadwayworld.com is now featuring streaming video episodes of Broadway Beat, the popular weekly television program for and about the theater world with host Richard Ridge. This week’s Broadway Beat features for Encore’s “Kismet,” “ABC Daytime Salutes BC/EFA,” and The Drama League’s “So In Love Concert.” At The Drama League’s “So In Love Concert,” Ridge talks [...]

Last week’s launch of the Jersey Boys Photo Gallery has been a tremendous success thanks to new fan registrations and the upload of their photos. Special thanks must go to a daring fan that uploaded a photo of Kristen Della Rocca with John Lloyd Young to become the very first to upload a fan photo. [...]

Broadway.com reports that the Jersey Boys’ harmonies were among the crowd pleasers at the So in Love: A Fine Romance at the Rainbow Room on February 13 in a concert to benefit the Drama League. Check out photos of cast members Christian Hoff, J. Robert Spencer, John Lloyd Young, and many other stars.

A lot can change in a year. Just ask actor John Lloyd Young, who’s currently starring as Frankie Valli in this season’s Broadway smash musical, Jersey Boys. Channing Gray, of The Providence Journal notes that a year ago, Brown grad Young was ushering for a Broadway show. Since his Broadway debut in November, The New [...]

The Providence Journal’s Leslie Gray Streeter states that The Four Seasons are a lot of things: American music icons, the 1960s standard-bearers of doo-wop pop, one of the few groups stateside to withstand and survive in the midst of Beatlemania and the craze over all things British, and the inspiration for one very popular Broadway [...]

For the third consecutive week, Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording held the Number 4 position on Billboard’s Top Broadway Album charts for the week of February 18, 2006. Check out Billboard Magazine’s Top 10 Broadway Albums for this week: Wicked The Color Purple Sweeney Todd Jersey Boys Mama Mia! Spamalot Rent—Best of Highlights The Phantom [...]

How hot is John Lloyd Young’s Broadway career? Young, who is making his Broadway debut playing Frankie Valli in this season’s smash hit, Jersey Boys, talked to Associated Press reporter Mark Kennedy about his early days as a struggling actor, his current success, and what may be next for him. While Young was studying acting [...]

So In Love: A Night of Romance at the Rainbow Room, the star-studded 21st annual spring gala benefit concert for The Drama League, was held on Monday, February 13, 2006 at The Rainbow Room in New York City. Among the evening’s best and brightest performances were Jersey Boys cast members Tituss Burgess, Christian Hoff, Daniel [...]

In today’s St. Petersburg Times, Frankie Valli, legendary lead singer of the Four Seasons, talks to Marty Clear about the chart topping hits that people still come to hear, four decades later in concert. Valli also talks about his latest hit–Jersey Boys, the smash Broadway musical based on the story of the Four Seasons. Valli [...]

THIS JUST IN: The cast of Jersey Boys will appear on the Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday, February 21, 2006. More details to follow as they become available.

In the current edition of Broadway.com’s First Person, Jersey Boys’ co-author Marshall Brickman confesses how a newfound passion for the Four Seasons coupled with the collaborative nature of theater helped him put the story of that crooning quartet from the Garden State on the Great White Way. Prior to launching his mega-successful screenwriting career, Brickman, [...]

Variety’s Gordon Cox notes the Broadway business perked up a bit last week, with total grosses climbing almost $650,000 to $13,896,209 for the week ending February 12, 2006. For a third consecutive week, Jersey Boys held the Number 4 position, grossing $875,921 with 9,003 seats sold. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from Broadwayworld.com: Wicked [...]

Jersey Boys Blog is proud to announce the launch of its new free Fan Photo Gallery. After registration, fans and cast members will be able to upload photos of themselves, the cast and crew, the theater, the Four Seasons or anything else you can think of associated with our favorite hit Broadway musical, Jersey Boys. [...]

We’ve had a good response to the latest Jersey Boys Blog Poll, What is your favorite Jersey Boys musical number? We’re just shy of 100 votes, and it’s a very close race among some really incredible songs! If you haven’t done so already, please vote for your favorite JB musical number, from the choices: “Sherry,” [...]