Jersey Boys Blog

According to Variety’s Gordon Cox, Broadway’s midwinter blues don’t seem so blue this year! Box office totals rose some $700,000 over the previous week, bringing in $14,846,423 for 26 shows on the boards. To no one’s big surprise, Jersey Boys continued to bring ‘em in at the box office! For the week ending 1/29/06, Broadwayworld.com [...]

In today’s edition of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Mike Weatherford provides an in-depth feature on the number of Broadway musicals making their way to the Strip. Within the feature, Weatherford highlights the current and possible shows coming to Vegas: Hairspray previews begin February 6 at the Luxor; The Phantom of the Opera previews are scheduled [...]

According to today’s Variety, Broadway box office totals suffered from its usual seasonal slide last week. Rialto grosses for Week 34 (Jan. 16-22) totaled $14,167,168, down about $1.5 million from the previous week, although still a healthy $2 million above the take from the same time last year. Nearly all of the 25 shows on [...]

Playbill’s Robert Simonson reports that Jersey Boys co-author Rick Elice attended opening night this evening for Bridge & Tunnel, the solo show starring Sara Jones at the Helen Hayes Theater. Elice said, so far, he hasn’t collected a dime on the Jersey Boys smash he wrote with Marshall Brickman, but he’s bracing for a windfall. [...]

Broadway.com’s Cara Joy David reports that the Tony Awards Administrative Committee made the second eligibility decisions of the 2005-2006 season on January 26. Among other decisions, the Tony Awards Administrative Committee decided which actor would be eligible in which category. The typical rule of thumb for acting nominations is above-the-title billing means a person is [...]

In today’s issue of the Jersey Journal, Jeff Theodore talks with Broadway’s “biggest new star,” John Lloyd Young, who is making his debut playing Frankie Valli in the smash hit musical Jersey Boys. Although Young is a newly minted superstar on the Great White Way who has received rave reviews and since Jersey Boys’ opening [...]

A new block of tickets for Jersey Boys are on sale now via Telecharge.com through October 1, 2006! To purchase tickets, got to the Telecharge web site.

It’s time for a new Jersey Boys Blog Poll! Please vote for your favorite Jersey Boys musical number. Your choices are: “Sherry,” “Walk Like a Man,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” “Oh What a Night,” or a Write In Vote You can vote for your favorite musical number and view results from this page.

In today’s Berkeley Daily Planet, columnist Susan Parker reflects on her trip to the Big Apple to see Jersey Boys. Parker’s New York friends thought that because she grew up in New Jersey, she would identify with, at the very least, the title. Before entering the theater, she had no idea how many of the [...]

For the week ending 1/22/06, Jersey Boys continued to do well at the box office, grossing $893,540 with 9,252 tickets sold. For a second week in a row, while several other Broadway productions lost double-digit percentages of their audiences (particularly Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, down 28.3%), Jersey Boys was down only 0.5% at 94.6% capacity.

On Sunday, January 22nd a special performance of Jersey Boys was held to benefit the Actors’ Fund of America and BroadwayWorld.com was there to cover the red carpet. The Actors’ Fund of America is the national nonprofit organization that provides for the social welfare of all entertainment professionals. Stars on hand for the special event [...]

Dottie Ashley from the Post and Courier goes into detail as to why Jersey Boys is such a major hit with audiences. Aslhey states that Jersey Boys is take-no-prisoners stuff, reflecting the zeal and passion of youth and the ambitions of musicians desperate for a better life. She describes the book, co-written by Marshall Brickman [...]

Broadwayworld’s Beau Higgins recently met up with Emmy-award winning actress Valerie Harper in a hotel in Columbus, Ohio, where she was currently starring as Golda Meir in William Gibson’s Golda’s Balcony. In addition to talking about her stage and television career, TV’s Rhoda talked about the many Broadway productions of the past and present that [...]

SignonSandiego.com’s Anne Marie Welsh updates readers on La Jolla, California native and Jersey Boys’ star Christian Hoff’, who will be joining the cast of soap opera All My Children beginning January 30 in the recurring role of Marty. Hoff was raised in La Jolla and trained in San Diego at the School of Creative and [...]

In a previous post, Jersey Boys Bog asked the question, Jersey Boys: A Rock Biography or a Jukebox Musical?? Although Chris Byrne of Gay City News believes that it is a jukebox musical, it demonstrates that the maligned genre is not all bad. He writes, “Jukebox Musical” has become a term that is generally used [...]

Broadwayworld.com reports that Jersey Boys’ Daniel Reichard will celebrate with an array of stars in Cupid with New Voices: My Funny Valentine at Symphony Space’s Leonard Nimoy Thalia (2537 Broadway at 95th Street) on February 13th by the New Voices Collective. Reichard, who is currently playing Bob Gaudio in Jersey Boys, has also been seen [...]

Broadwaywold.com reports that Jersey Boys grossed $884,505 for the week ending 1/15/06. Whereas other productions lost double-digit percentages of their audiences from the previous week (notably Doubt, down 31.3%), Jersey Boys remained at 95.1% capacity. The production’s top ticket price of $111.25 is $74 below the week’s average top ticket and approximately $190 below the [...]

“Breakfast with the Arts” will re-air an interview with legendary Four Seasons star Frankie Valli, and John Lloyd Young, who stars as Valli in the smash hit Broadway musical, Jersey Boys, this Sunday, January 22 between 8:00am and 10:00am (Eastern).

Although Jersey Boys focuses on four blue collar guys who made it big as the chart topping pop music sensations, the Four Seasons, there are four versatile actresses playing multiple roles in this smash hit that are worth a second look! The women of Jersey Boys, Jennifer Naimo, Erica Piccininni, Sara Schmidt, and Heather Ferguson, [...]