Jersey Boys Blog

Any idea who has earned the title of Jersey Boys’ most devoted high-profile fan? According to Cityguideny.com, it’s Late Show bandleader Paul Shafer, who’s already seen the show three times, including opening night! Also on hand for opening night were original Four Seasons members Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, and Tommy DeVito—plus Joe Pesci, who grew [...]

Jersey Boys tickets for the extension period of May 30 – August 31 are on sale now for American Express Cardholders. To purchase tickets, go to the Broadway Offers.com web site. The promotional code is JBAMEX. Tickets will go on sale for the general public for these dates on January 22.

With only four months remaining in the 2005-2006 Broadway season, Ken Mandelbaum takes a look at where things stand in terms of success, failure, and Tony Awards in this week’s The Insider column. Mandelbaum talks about the season’s first unqualified hit, Jersey Boys, somewhat unexpected because Lennon, All Shook Up, and Good Vibrations had seemed [...]

Broadwayworld.com announced today that the cast of Broadway’s smash hit, Jersey Boys will perform live on NBC’s Today Show this Friday, January 6 between 8:30am and 9:00am (ET). While the cast performs live from the New York studios, legendary singer Frankie Valli will also be interviewed from Los Angeles.

Variety’s Gordon Cox reports that the 28 shows on Broadway for the week ending 1/1/06 raked in the highest weekly gross in Rialto history, a walloping $25,230,783. Jersey Boys broke another house record at the August Wilson Theater, grossing $975,836, up 7.2% from last week!

Broadwayworld.com’s Craig Brockman provides an in-depth look at Christian Hoff, who is playing Jersey Boys’ tough-talking Tommy DeVito on Broadway. After moving to San Diego as a kid, Hoff began his theatrical career at the San Diego Junior Theatre when he was eight years old. Brockman goes into detail about Hoffman’s small and large screen [...]

Looks like MSNBC has an error on their website!! A reliable source has told Jersey Boys Blog that the cast of the Broadway hit musical Jersey Boys will perform live in the Today Show studio on Friday, January 6, 2006 (7:00-9:00 am ET)!!

Happy New Year!! What a way to start 2006! MSNBC reports that the cast of the Broadway hit musical Jersey Boys will perform live in the studio on Thursday, January 5, 2006 (7:00-9:00 am ET)!

According to the League of American Theatres and Producers, 2005 is Broadways highest grossing calendar year of all time and the second highest in paid attendance. Broadway has grossed a record-breaking $825 million in New York for the 2005 calendar year s up 10.2 % from the 2004 total of $749 million. The staying power [...]

In this week’s Diva Talk column, Andrew Gans provides a “best of” list that includes favorite musical performances on the theatrical and cabaret stages that opened in 2005. Included in Gans’ list is Jersey Boys! Here’s what he says about the smash hit musical: Just when it seemed the jukebox musical had taken its last [...]

In a UPI story posted today, J. Robert Spencer, who plays late Four Seasons member Nick Massi in the Broadway smash musical Jersey Boys, says the new hit is a rock biography with great music, not a jukebox musical. Spencer also tells UPI that with jukebox musicals, they always take (someone’s) popular songs and then [...]

According to Variety’s Gordon Cox, fall hit Jersey Boys was one of the few shows to beat the Christmas slump, climbing $90,000 to $895,865 to break the August Wilson house record yet again. Broadwayworld.com reports that since opening to rave reviews, the smash hit has grossed $7,299,716.

In Broadway.com’s 2005 Wrap-Up of Quotable Quotes, Frankie Valli, John Lloyd Young, and Rick Elice give their thoughts on Jersey Boys: “This has been a dream in the making for a long time, so to actually see it being performed on a Broadway stage is—don’t really have any words to tell you what the feeling [...]

The Broadway.com editorial has published Top Picks for the 2005 Broadway season. Number 8 on the list is the hit musical Jersey Boys. Check out what the editorial staff says about the show that brings audiences to their feet: The Broadway road is littered with belly-up jukebox musicals—from Good Vibrations to Lennon—but now the funeral [...]

In an article published today, Playbill summarizes several publications’ annual roundups of this year’s best theater productions. Included on many of these lists is the hit musical Jersey Boys and John Lloyd Young’s standout performance as Frankie Valli! …Could there be some Tony nominations in the Jersey Boys’ future???

Both Newsday.com and New York Daily News.com place the hit musical Jersey Boys among the top theater experiences of 2005! Newsday.com’s Linda Winer states that Jersey Boys turns out to be one of the most entertaining musicals of the fall season. Finally, here is a quality jukebox bio of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. [...]

In his year-end summary of Broadway’s best, New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley applauds John Lloyd Young’s standout performance in Jersey Boys: Who’d a thunk that the theatrical find in the year would surface in a crowd-pleaser about the career of the pop group the Four Seasons? But playing Frankie Valli, the Seasons’ lead [...]

In his Broadway debut playing Frankie Valli in this season’s hit musical Jersey Boys, Entertainment Weekly has named John Lloyd Young’s performance among 2005’s most memorable moments. Here’s what was said in EW’s year-end double issue: John Lloyd Young vividly remembers his first Frankie Valli moment. “As a kid, I saw a commercial for this [...]

Jersey Boys is #7 on Entertainment Weekly’s Top 10 Stage of 2005! In the year-end double issue, here’s what was said about the Broadway smash hit musical: If shows based on the songs and/or lives of the Beach Boys, Elvis, and John Lennon couldn’t cut it, why would one on the admittedly lesser Four Seasons? [...]