By West Coast Correspondent Cathi Aradi Jonathan Hadley was part of the company of Jersey Boys that opened in San Francisco in November of 2007. Although most of that cast will move on to Las Vegas, Jonathan has joined the National Tour and is now wowing audiences all over the country with his portrayal of [...]
(more...)Jersey Boys national tour previews Wednesday and opens Thursday at the Orpheum in Minneapolis. Rohan Preston of the Star Tribune notes the cast of Jersey Boys fretted about how pop icons Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons would react. Preston spoke with JB national tour stars Christopher Kale Jones, who plays Frankie Valli, and Andrew [...]
(more...)John Berger of the Starbulletin.com has posted a terrific interview with Hawaii-born Jersey Boys national tour star Christopher Kale Jones, who talks about his career, what it’s like to play the role of Frankie Valli, and his thoughts on the future. Jones, 29, moved to New York in 2001 after earning a theater degree from [...]
(more...)The National tour of JERSEY BOYS, the Grammy and Tony Award winning Best Musical, plays its 500th performance tonight, Friday, March 14. The tour is currently in its final week (through March 15) at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center’s Morsani Hall, where it has been one of the most successful engagements in the theatre’s [...]
(more...)Jon Bream from the Star Tribune states that New Jersey is the butt of national jokes — and also a hotbed of American music. What makes this state so special? Per capita, the fertile Garden State has probably turned out more big-name music stars than any other state. Bream asked several music experts what makes [...]
(more...)HeraldTribune.com states that they might want to change the lyrics to one of the songs in Jersey Boys from “Oh, what a night†to “Oh, what a run.†The musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons is setting records and marking milestones before the end of its run Saturday night at the Tampa Bay [...]
(more...)By West Coast Correspondent Cathi Aradi After seven weeks without a Jersey Boys fix, San Francisco fans were thrilled to see the holiday cast come into town in late November. Once again, the show played to sellout crowds, many of whom have seen the show numerous times. The fan base in the City-by-the-Bay is tremendous, [...]
(more...)TBO.com reports that Jersey Boys national tour cast member Zachary Prince will sing the national anthem before the Tampa Bay Rays’ Grapefruit League home opener today.
(more...)Visit the DFW Theatre Scene Podcast to listen to a fabulous Dallas interview with Jersey Boys national tour cast members Holly Ann Butler, Jonathan Hadley, and Christopher Kale Jones! Jersey Boys will be playing in Dallas beginning in July of this year.
(more...)Backstage.com reports on the Garland Awards and there’s big news for Jersey Boys! Christopher Kale Jones received an award for Performance in a (Primarily) Musical Production and Ron Melrose received an award for Musical Direction! This year marks the tenth anniversary of Garland Awards, the 10th year the critics of Back Stage West have voted [...]
(more...)News from Jersey Boys: JB continues as the most successful engagement in the history of the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center’s Morsani Hall, passing the previous weekly record set by Wicked. JERSEY BOYS set a new box office record for the week ending February 17, grossing $1,576,137, and this past week (ending February 24), the [...]
(more...)Mark E. Leib of CreativeLoafing.com says that one of the best things about Jersey Boys, the invigorating musical currently playing at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, is its honesty about the seamier side of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. While the show, written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, doesn’t linger on the [...]
(more...)Jay Handelman of the HeraldTribune.com raves about Jersey Boys in Tampa! He states that you don’t need to travel back to late December 1963 to have that elated feeling once again. Just spend an evening with the musical Jersey Boys and enjoy the ups and downs in the careers of Frankie Valli and the Four [...]
(more...)East Meets Southeast!! Yes, JB fans Irene Eizen and Helen Ratcliffe, along with Irene’s family, had a “sit-down” in Tampa seeing the national tour of Jersey Boys–and Oh, What a Night it was!! Photos courtesy of Helen Ratcliffe.
(more...)John Fleming, Times Performing Arts Critic says that more than a few tears of joy will be shed during Jersey Boys. There is something deeply affecting about men harmonizing, from the Four Freshmen to the Beach Boys to the Four Tops. It was the essence of 1960s American pop music, exhilarating in its freedom and [...]
(more...)Curtis Ross of TBO.com notes that somewhere between “American Bandstand” and “The Sopranos” sits Jersey Boys, a musical about the messy lives of ’60s pop stars The Four Seasons. The production won a Tony for Best Musical in 2006 and Friday’s opening night performance at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center’s Morsani Hall left little [...]
(more...)Check out the FOX13 interview with Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio! The Jersey Boys national tour performs at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center starting tomorrow through March 15!
(more...)Jersey Boys’ stories are ubiquitous in the Florida press today. SPTimes.com Performing Arts Critic John Fleming has an in-depth feature that includes interviews with Bob Gaudio, writer Marshall Brickman, musical director Ron Melrose, and JB national tour member Andrew Rannells! It all started with “The Deer Hunter.” There’s a scene in the 1978 movie in [...]
(more...)Lindsey Halfhill of AZTeenMagazine.com has posted an interesting interview with Jersey Boys national tour cast member Taylor Sternberg. Making his debut in a professional theatre production, Taylor Sternberg has taken on the role as an understudy for ‘Frankie Valli’, as well as multiple other characters in the national tour of JB. As a talented actor, [...]
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