May 17, 2006

Brickman & Elice’s New Musical Project

May 17th, 2006
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    Playbill.com’s Ernio Hernandez reports that the Tony Award-nominated book writing team from Broadway’s Jersey Boys, Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, are not wasting any time getting to work on their next musical collaboration. Brickman told Playbill.com that he and co-writer Elice have a new book ready to go with Tommy Tune directing called Turn of [...]

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May 16, 2006

BREAKING NEWS: Jersey Boys Receives EIGHT Tony Nominations

May 16th, 2006
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    The 2006 Tony Nominations have been announced and Jersey Boys has garnered EIGHT nominations: Best Musical Best Book of a Musical–Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical–John Lloyd Young Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical–Christian Hoff Best Direction of a Musical–Des McAnuff Best Orchestrations–Steve Orich [...]

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May 15, 2006

More on Jersey Boys and the Tonys

May 15th, 2006
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    Before the Tony Award nominations come out tomorrow, here’s a look at one critic’s very long Broadway season, from the very best to a long trail of forgettable evenings at the theater. Jacques Le Sourd from The Journal News reflects on 38 Broadway productions. Here’s what he said about Jersey Boys: Jersey Boys: The biggest [...]

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May 14, 2006

Another Critic Lauds Jersey Boys!

May 14th, 2006
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    After a recent visit to Broadway, Columbus Dispatch critic Michael Grossberg gives Jersey Boys the thumbs-up. He tells readers who may be going to New York to catch some shows that Jersey Boys is one of three shows not to be missed! Here’s what Grossberg says about the megahit musical: Creators: Authors Marshall Brickman and [...]

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May 7, 2006

Hits Explode at Jersey Boys

May 7th, 2006
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    In today’s Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, film critic Ed Blank talks about his recent Broadway experience seeing a very enthusiastic audience at the smash hit musical Jersey Boys. Blank notes that the first 45 minutes of Jersey Boys sketch the genesis of a Joisey pop singing group in mid to late 1950s that under several names and [...]

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May 5, 2006

Orlando Reviewer Loves Jersey Boys

May 5th, 2006
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    In her Orlando Sentinel blog, Elizabeth Maupin reviews Jersey Boys. Maupin admits that Four Seasons’ hits “never did it for her” –until seeing Jersey Boys, a musical that had her grinning from ear to ear. She notes that a lot of Jersey Boys is very funny, with writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice doing a [...]

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May 3, 2006

Jersey Boys Attend Drama Desk Reception

May 3rd, 2006
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    A cocktail reception was held on Tuesday night, May 2, 2006 to honor those who had been nominated for a 2006 Drama Desk Award. Jersey Boys’ stars Daniel Reichard and John Lloyd Young, along with co-writer Marshall Brickman are among the many Broadway luminaries you can see on Broadwayworld.com The 51st Annual Drama Desk Awards [...]

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April 27, 2006

NEWSFLASH: Jersey Boys Receives Eight Drama Desk Nominations

April 27th, 2006
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    Playbill.com’s Robert Simonson reports that the nominations for the 51st Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced this morning at the New York Friars Club in Manhattan by composer Marvin Hamlisch and actress Donna McKechnie. Jersey Boys has garnered eight nominations for this year’s Drama Desk Awards, which will be held Sunday, May 21, 2006 at [...]

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April 20, 2006

Latest Celebrity Sighting at Jersey Boys: Wild & Crazy Guy–Steve Martin

April 20th, 2006
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    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 [...]

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April 10, 2006

Jersey Boys Performing at Benefit Tonight

April 10th, 2006
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    On John Lloyd Young’s blog, he reports that he and the other Jersey Boys will perform at the Dramatists Guild’s Annual Benefit, at New York’s Millenium Hotel. The benefit will be hosted by playwright, John Guare and will salute the playwrights, composers and lyricists who created this season’s most exciting musical moments. The benefit will [...]

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March 30, 2006

Tony Predictions for Jersey Boys & Young

March 30th, 2006
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    Los Angeles Times blogger Tom O’Neil says this year the Tony Awards will be a real drama. There isn’t one mega-hit musical or play likely to sweep the kudos like The Producers or Doubt. Indeed, at this point, there doesn’t even seem to be a single show clearly ahead in either of those races, but [...]

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March 25, 2006

Marshall Brickman’s A&E Appearance Recap

March 25th, 2006
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    On the 3/19/06 edition of “A&E’s Breakfast With the Arts,” co-writer Marshall Brickman talks to host Karina Huber about the how the idea for Jersey Boys came about, in addition to success of the hit musical. Brickman also tells Huber about his show business career, which included writing stints with Johnny Carson and Dick Cavett, [...]

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March 15, 2006

Marshall Brickman Will Be Featured on A&E’s “Breakfast with the Arts”This Sunday

March 15th, 2006
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    Broadwayworld.com’s News Desk reports that Jersey Boys’ co-writer Marshall Brickman will be featured on A&E’s “Breakfast with the Arts” this Sunday, March 19 between 8:00am and 10:00 AM EST (check local listings for times outside of New York).

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March 11, 2006

Another Rave Review for Runaway Hit Jersey Boys

March 11th, 2006
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    New Orleans Times-Picayune theatre reviewer David Cuthbert observed that the party in the August Wilson Theatre at Jersey Boys started even before the show began, with the audience clapping in unison with the music right from the start. He was especially impressed with the sensational performance by John Lloyd Young, who brings Frankie Valli to [...]

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February 19, 2006

Frankie Valli’s Reflections on the Ups, the Downs, and the Smash Hit Jersey Boys

February 19th, 2006
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    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 [...]

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February 17, 2006

John Lloyd Young—The Hot Ticket on Broadway

February 17th, 2006
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    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 [...]

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February 14, 2006

Marshall Brickman Discovers the Four Seasons

February 14th, 2006
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    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, [...]

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February 7, 2006

John Lloyd Young’s Journey from Omaha to Broadway

February 7th, 2006
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    Omaha World-Herald staff writer Bob Fischbach provides readers with a glimpse of John Lloyd Young’s childhood in Bellevue, Nebraska, where his acting ambitions and dreams began, his seven years as a struggling actor, and his Broadway debut playing Frankie Valli in this season’s megahit, Jersey Boys. Young says his acting ambitions began in the late [...]

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February 2, 2006

Jersey Boys’ J. Robert Spencer Reflects on Playing the Late Nick Massi

February 2nd, 2006
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    J. Robert Spencer, who plays Nick Massi in the smash hit musical Jersey Boys, tells UPI that the script for the Broadway smash musical was based on actual interviews with Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Spencer, however, was the only lead in the production who was unable to talk to the real-life guy he [...]

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