Jersey Boys Blog

Playbill.com’s series features brief chats with actors commenting on their recent theatregoing experiences, what productions they are looking forward to and more. Here’s the preview to a recent chat with JERSEY BOYS Broadway’s “Nick Massi”–Matt Bogart, who will be seen in the New York Musical Theatre Festival production of Himself and Nora. Q: What show [...]

JERSEY BOYS first national tour’s “Tommy DeVito,” John Gardiner (Photo Credit: Joan Marcus) John Gardiner, who plays “Tommy DeVito” in the JERSEY BOYS first national tour, filled out Broadway.com’s questionnaire about life on the road in the Tony-winning musical. Here’s a preview: The five items I can’t live without on the road: 1. My iPhone [...]

JERSEY BOYS Broadway grossed $887,165 and had a 93.1% attendance rate for the week ending 7/1/12. The 30 shows on the boards grossed $23,877,257, virtually unchanged from the previous week’s totals. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending July 1, 2012. Wicked $2,033,004 The Lion King $1,944,704 The Book Of [...]

Click HERE to watch the CTV News interview with JERSEY BOYS first national tour cast member Kara Tremel, who is a native of Calgary! Kara has toured all over the world and for the first time she is bringing the show home to Calgary.

Happy Independence Day–Let’s celebrate Jersey Style! In 2009, a select group of JERSEY BOYS cast members across America performed a medley of hits from the show, with a new orchestration by Steve Orich, at “A Capitol Fourth” celebration in Washington DC. Appearing in this fantastic performance were Jarrod Spector as Frankie Valli, Josh Franklin as [...]

A Broadway Rags to Riches Tale: Dan Sullivan, Former Tommy DeVito of Jersey Boys Launches Places, Please!–A Hilarious and Heart-Warming Memoir of the Optimistic Actor TORONTO/NEW YORK, June 29th 2012, Canadian e-publishing house Iguana Books releases Daniel Robert Sullivan’s backstage memoir Places, Please! (Becoming A Jersey Boy) as part of their inaugural list and just [...]

Stephen Hunt of the Calgary Herald has posted a marvelous review of the JERSEY BOYS first national tour in Calgary. Here’s a preview: Nothing says American dream quite like four guys from Jersey who managed to create more than two dozen hit singles, sell 100 million records — and still mess up their lives enough [...]

Matt Bogart, John Lloyd Young, Quinn VanAntwerp, and Andy Karl (Photo Credit: Joan Marcus) Welcome Back, JLY!! From BroadwayWorld.com: ‏Tomorrow, July 3, the Broadway company of JERSEY BOYS will welcome back John Lloyd Young, who created the role of Frankie Valli in the original Broadway company and on the Grammy-winning, platinum cast album. for his [...]

Mike Morrison has posted a rave review of the JERSEY BOYS first national tour in Calgary on “Mike’s Bloggity Blog.” Here’s a sneak peek: The success of Jersey Boys is no fluke. Four Tonys, thousands of performances all around the world and it’s currently being developed into a feature film. But this was the first [...]

By Howard Tucker, Jersey Boys Blog Special Correspondent All of us with the Jersey Boys Blog were so pleasantly surprised by the fan reaction to our recent profile of Mike Backes. Several fans were eager to share what their favorite JERSEY BOYS performers were now doing, and others were curious, but all suggested that we [...]

The JERSEY BOYS first national tour company brought the house down Saturday night in Calgary. During an encore they gave the crowd a special treat by singing “Sweet City Woman” – the official song that celebrates Calgary being a cultural capital this year. The cast was also “white-hatted,” before being welcomed to the city by [...]

Fun video interview with Preston Truman Boyd and Joseph Leo Bwarie on Breakfast Television in Calgary! Click HERE to watch it. The JERSEY BOYS first national tour will play the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary through July 15

JERSEY BOYS Broadway grossed $947,229 and had a 92.6% attendance rate for the week ending 6/24/12. The 32 shows on the boards grossed $24,987,783, an increase of 2.9% from the previous week’s totals. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending June 24, 2012. Wicked $2,038,405 The Lion King $1,953,376 Spider-Man [...]

Elaine Liner of Dallas Observer absolutely adored the JERSEY BOYS second national tour production. Check out a preview of her rave review: And the crowd goes wild. Sure, it’s an older crowd that loves these songs. But even if you’ve never waxed nostalgic for gooey pop melodies like “Big Girls Don’t Cry” or “Walk Like [...]

Jersey Boys Las Vegas Four Seasons singing “Walk Like A Man” on stage (Photo Credit: Joan Marcus) Las Vegas Weekly has posted their 2012 Weekly Awards and big news! JERSEY BOYS Las Vegas has been named “Best Classic Production Show”! Other productions compare themselves, even unwittingly, to this telling of the Frankie Valli and the [...]

The JERSEY BOYS first national tour plays the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary beginning tomorrow, June 28 through through July 15. Stephen Hunt of the Calgary Herald has a marvelous in-depth preview in his interview with director Des McAnuff and Joseph Leo Bwarie! Here’s a sneak peek: Jersey Boys is that rarest of jukebox musicals: not [...]

Reporter Jennifer Johnson has posted a marvelous interview with Nick Cosgrove, who is the two-show Frankie Valli in the JERSEY BOYS first national tour. After Valli’s concert at the Chicago Theatre on June 2, Nick had the opportunity to meet the legendary singer that he portrays on stage. “I was a little nervous to meet [...]

Need a great pick-me-up this morning? How about the cast of JERSEY BOYS London’s fabulous Who Loves You/Oh, What A Night performance at West End Live 2012 over the weekend?!

With JERSEY BOYS’ heading to Brisbane from July 13 through September 16, reporter Nathanael Cooper of The Courier-Mail recently caught up with original Four Seasons member Bob Gaudio. Check out a preview of the interview: I FIRST met The Four Seasons’ Bob Gaudio in a Melbourne theatre foyer around the time of the Australian premiere [...]