Jersey Boys Blog

Bob Gaudio with son-in-law Jimmy Kasanjian, daughter Danielle Gaudio-Lalehzar, wife Judy, daughter Lisa Gaudio, and granddaughter Brianna Gaudio (Photo by Joe Camporeale) Allison Schiff of Twin-Boro News has a terrific feature on Bob Gaudio! On Tuesday, February 3, it was officially named “Bob Gaudio Day” in Bergenfield in a proclamation by the borough mayor and [...]

Kory Loucks reports: Oh what a show. First rate, unforgettable music, and lots of it, combined with a rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches story about a time in the 1950s when men were men, especially if they were Italian, and the only options to get out of poverty in inner-city New Jersey were either crime or singing, or in [...]

Donna Larcen of the Hartford Courant states that JERSEY BOYS, the musical biography of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons is tough, tender and terrific. The songs are already hits. What makes this production work are the clever staging, the rotating narration by members of the quartet, and including the audience in the production. When [...]

Photo by: Joan Marcus Mike Chaiken has an in-depth interview with JERSEY BOYS’ national tour’s Frankie Valli–Joseph Leo Bwarie! Joseph tells Chaiken that the Tony Award-winning show is not only remarkable, but “magic in a bottle.” “Beyond features in ‘Teen Beat’ magazine,” said Joseph, “their lives were their lives.” And besides the great moments of [...]

JB cast members Steve Gouveia, Joseph Leo Bwarie, Josh Franklin and Erik Bates (Photo by Joan Marcus) Frank Rizzo of The Hartford Courant asks: Is it hip to be from New Jersey? After years of being the punch line for comedians, the state is getting, well, if not respect, at least some cultural cachet. Giving [...]

Brad Hundt of the Observer-Reporter raves about the Pittsburgh production of JERSEY BOYS! According to Hundt, “Jersey Boys” could be boiled down to a simple equation. Take the no-bull New Jersey swagger of “The Sopranos,” and add the Kennedy-era fashions of “Mad Men” and the rags-to-riches-to-rags storytelling of VH1′s “Behind the Music,” and you get [...]

In their latest example of cross-border cooperation, two entertainment industry charities are sharing $32,000 after cast members of the US national touring company of Jersey Boys collected donations from audiences during their stop in Toronto in the last two weeks of November. The Toronto-based Actors’ Fund of Canada and New York-based Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS [...]

Here’s Star 100.7′s video interview with Erik Bates, Joseph Leo Bwarie, Josh Franklin and Steve Gouveia.

Tribune-Review Theater Critic Alice T. Carter says JERSEY BOYS is just too good to be true. It’s a musical with songs you know, love and want to hear again integrated into a story you don’t know, but get caught up in. Rather than drop another quarter into the jukebox to create yet another and-then-we-wrote musical [...]

Jean Horne of the Tribune-Review tells readers to massage the Master Card and run, do not walk, to see the phenomenal production of JERSEY BOYS! Oh, what a night! Dazzling, electrifying, over the moon and the hit songs keep coming in “Jersey Boys” that opened Friday night at the Benedum Center. The rags-to-riches story of [...]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Sharon Eberson states that Bob Gaudio, who wrote the Four Seasons songs that Frankie Valli’s soaring voice helped take to the top of the charts, and Joseph Leo Bwarie, who plays Frankie in the touring company of the Tony-winning “Jersey Boys,” made the same point in separate conversations, using different cultural touchstones. The [...]

Photo by Joan Marcus JERSEY BOYS, the 2006 Tony-award winning best musical that audiences can’t take their eyes off of, has worked its way to Pittsburgh. Beginning Wednesday, January 7 through February 1, JB national tour will be playing at the Benedum Center. Two Pittsburgh newspapers had the opportunity to talk to JB cast members [...]

Theatre critics keep reminiscing about the great, the good, and the not so good stage experiences in 2008. JERSEY BOYS continues to be the critics’ top choice in the USA and the UK! From Elaine Liner, DallasObserver.com: Jersey Boys, Dallas Summer Musicals: For once Fair Park welcomed a top-notch Broadway tour whose cast was as [...]

(Photo: Joan Marcus) Denver can’t get enough of the Boys from Jersey! Check out the latest reviews! From MK, Out Front Colorado: This show is an absolute joy – and who doesn’t need some joy around the holidays! If you love the Four Seasons, you will be thrilled. If you even like them, you will [...]

Photo courtesy of Tomas Muscionico. With only a few days left in 2008, entertainment reporters are highlighting the best shows of the year. No surprise, in two of today’s papers, JERSEY BOYS rocks! Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Mike Weatherford states that JERSEY BOYS is the Broadway hit that works in Vegas! 1. “JERSEY BOYS” — Las [...]

From BroadwayWorld.com: The Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical Jersey Boys broke the box office record for a touring Broadway show at the Buell Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, for the week ending Sunday, December 21 with a gross of $1,924,310. The previous record was $1,659,826. The smash hit musical opened to rave reviews on Friday [...]

We are thrilled to post Stubbleyou’s re-cap of Joseph Leo Bwarie’s “Not Your Average Joe” amazing December 8 concert that was held at the Falcon Theater in Burbank! By Stubbleyou Last Monday morning on the drive to school I gave my twelve-year-old a challenge: How many Jersey Boys songs do you think Joe Leo Bwarie [...]

Critics continue to sing high praises for the Jersey Boys national tour in Denver! From Lisa Bornstein, Rocky Mountain News: This beautifully produced band bio is more than a jukebox musical, less than a book musical and thoroughly entertaining throughout. With a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, the show takes a modified Rashomon [...]

Jersey Boys National Tour Cast Members: Steve Gouveia, Joseph Leo Bwarie, Josh Franklin and Erik Bates. (Photo: Joan Marcus) From John Moore, Denver Post Theater Critic: As a vocal performance, “Jersey Boys” strikes not one false falsetto note. That’s thanks mostly to Joseph Leo Bwarie’s endearing re-creation of Valli and his angelic voice. Along with [...]