Jersey Boys Blog

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 [...]

You’re in for a treat if you check out Broadway.com’s photo coverage of John Lloyd Young’s caricature unveiling at Sardi’s last week. You’ll see photos of JLY with his dad, Karl Young, his girlfriend, Alison Franck, several of his friends (including castmate Christian Hoff), co-book writer Rick Elice, and his boss, Jersey Boys lead producer–Dodger [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Broadwayworld.com reports that Broadway’s smash hit musical, Jersey Boys will celebrate their 100th performance tomorrow evening, February 1. The book, written by Marshall Bricman and Rick Elice, chronicles the lives of a group of blue-collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks who, as Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, became one of the [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Jesse Hiestand from Backstage.com reports that Jersey Boys co-author Marshall Brickman will receive the Writers Guild of America (WGA) East’s Ian McLellan Hunter Award for lifetime achievement in writing. Brickman, who has written for film, television, and theater, will be honored at the guild’s annual award dinner on February 4. His first venture in live [...]

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 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 [...]

Correction: Jerseyboysblog.com has just found out through Playbill.com that the “Theater Talk” interview with Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, who wrote the book for Broadway’s musical Jersey Boys, will take place on Dec. 24 at 12:30 AM (ET). Check local listings.

Broadwayworld.com announced that PBS’ TheaterTalk will feature an exclusive interview with Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, co-writers of the book of the hit Broadway musical, Jersey Boys this Friday, December 23 at 12:30am on WNET-TV (Channel 13).

As most everyone knows, Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice wrote the Jersey Boys book. Who are the guys behind the book that is one of the hottest hits on Broadway? Marshall Brickman Marshall Brickman, 62, was born in Brazil to American parents. While still in his teens, Brickman was a member of the Tarriers, a [...]

Several Broadway-related websites have done a great job capturing the magic of Jersey Boys rehearsals, the Opening Night gala, performances at the August Wilson Theater, and TV appearances featuring the cast, the original Four Seasons members, and other people associated with the show. Below are some highlights: This Broadway.com video features rehearsal footage with cast [...]