Theatermaina.com reports that full casting has been announced for the Las Vegas production of the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys, about the musical group Four Seasons, which will begin previews at the new Palazzo Resort Hotel Casino on April 4. The cast will be led by Erich Bergen (Bob Gaudio), Rick Faugno (Frankie Valli), Jeremy [...]
(more...)Norm Clarke, Vegas Confidential columnist in the Las Vegas Review Journal, reports that Bob Gaudio, one of the original members of the Four Seasons and executive producer of Jersey Boys, got his first look at the Jersey Boys Theatre at Palazzo yesterday. He was accompanied by Rick Elice, who co-wrote the multiple Tony Award-winning show [...]
(more...)Sys-con.com reports that the Palazzo Las Vegas, the newest hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in nearly three years, has announced a limited number of tickets will go on sale for its grand opening concert: Luminaries and Legends. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, January 2, 2008 at 10 a.m. The January 19th concert, which will [...]
(more...)Las Vegas Sun reporter Jerry Fink notes that Las Vegas crowds have a habit of sending Broadway musicals packing. Even The Producers will join the conga line that’s left Las Vegas in the past two years – Hairspray,Avenue Q and the Queen-based musical We Will Rock You, not technically a Broadway show but with Broadway [...]
(more...)New York Post columnist Michael Reidel provides some theatrical tidbits today, including an update on the film rights to Jersey Boys and JB’s upcoming Vegas show: Bob Gaudio, who wrote most of the Four Seasons’ hit songs, wants a ton of money for the film rights to Jersey Boys. Steven Spielberg is after the show, [...]
(more...)According to Chris Jones of Variety.com, the right kind of legit is still thriving in Sin City after some very lean seasons. “Shows in Vegas mostly have moved back to a Broadway kind of schedule,” says Scott Zeiger, whose partnership with the entertainment-heavy Venetian Hotel and the Las Vegas Sands Corp. has made the former [...]
(more...)With time to kill after work Wednesday, The Tech Half set out on a photo shoot at the direction of the feisty Blog Half. The result? Some spectacular photos of the nearly completed Palazzo Casino Resort. This is not going to be the Sea Breeze Lounge, my friends. No, this is going to be a [...]
(more...)BroadwayWorld.com reports that according to the Venetian’s ticketing website, the Las Vegas production of Jersey Boys will start performances on April 4th, 2008. An early 2008 opening was previously announced. “With advance ticket sales over $30 million on Broadway we are confident that visitors from all over the world will come to see what is [...]
(more...)In today’s San Diego Union-Tribune, the headline states, “Las Vegas to roll the dice on Jersey Boys.” Las Vegas has a spotty record hosting full-scale Broadway musicals. But if any show can beat the odds on the Strip, it’s Jersey Boys. The La Jolla Playhouse megahit, now a top seller on the Great White Way, [...]
(more...)You know your morning is not going to be half-bad when you go open your front door to get the morning paper and you see the headline: “Musical Jersey Boys Coming To The Strip.” Yes, that’s what greeted me this morning! Mike Weatherford, Las Vegas Review-Journal’s entertainment reporter announced the news that we heard about [...]
(more...)PR Newswire reports that the much-anticipated opening of The Palazzo Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas just got bigger with the addition of the Tony-Award winning smash hit musical, Jersey Boys. The perennially sold-out show based on the life story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons has taken Broadway by storm and now has [...]
(more...)Toronto: Today’s edition of the TorontoStar.com notes that it was only yesterday that Aubrey Dan revealed his Dancap Productions had acquired the rights to the hit musical Jersey Boys and had made a firm offer to present it at the Toronto Centre for the Arts for six months. However, the Centre’s management board was insisting [...]
(more...)In today’s Las Vegas Review-Journal entertainment columnist Mike Weatherford notes that Jersey Boys is likely to open later this year in the Palazzo Tower addition to The Venetian! Weatherford lets Vegas readers in on what we already know: The Broadway megahit opened in November 2005 and grosses more than $1.1 million per week. In 2006, [...]
(more...)
Posts Via RSS:
