Jersey Boys Blog

Intermission Impossible blogger Chris Davis sat down with JB national tour Four Seasons–Matt Bailey, Joseph Leo Bwarie, Steve Gouveia, and Ryan Jesse for some barbecue & conversation! This two-part video interview is a treat!

Lindsay Thomas (Photo by: Mark O’Neill) It is with sadness that Jersey Boys Blog has to share the news to our readers that Lindsay Thomas, who played Francine in the original JERSEY BOYS Toronto cast, passed away yesterday of cancer at the age of 31. Lindsay was a graduate of Sheridan College’s music theater performance [...]

Ramona Zacharias has a fabulous interview with JERSEY BOYS Toronto’s Bob Gaudio, Quinn VanAntwerp. The 23-year-old is on stage eight times a week playing the legendary member of The Four Seasons. Here’s a preview: “This show has really been a dream come true for me,” VanAntwerp enthuses. “Playing Bob Gaudio every day is like spending [...]

From BroadwayWorld.com: Toronto’s very own JERSEY BOYS are coming out for a special Valentine’s Day event, in addition to announcing a new promotion for discounted seats to the huge popular show at The Toronto Centre for the Arts. The Tony, Grammy, Olivier and Dora-Award winning hit musical JERSEY BOYS will perform on the Waterfall Stage [...]

JERSEY BOYS Toronto: Michael Lomenda (Nick Massi), Jeff Madden (Frankie Valli), Quinn Vanantwerp (Bob Gaudio), and Daniel Robert Sullivan (Tommy Devito) [Photo Credit: Joan Marcus/Handout] News from National Post: Dancap Productions has announced that performances of Jersey Boys at the Toronto Centre for the Arts will continue until at least May 23, 2010. “Toronto has [...]

The National Post is featuring some of their favorite diary entries of 2009 from the entertainment world–including one from Toronto JERSEY BOYS’ Frankie Valli–Jeff Madden! Jeff Madden, Actor, Jersey Boys–Week of April 27: Last night was a great show. The pacing was crisp, and the crowd was awesome. Jersey Boys plays great to a subdued [...]

Toronto Star’s Theatre Critic Richard Ouzounian recalls 10 performances, people and events this year that kept audiences spellbound and Dancap’s JERSEY BOYS is among his top choices! Jersey Boys (Dancap): It’s wonderful for Dancap Productions that this hit musical, directed by Des McAnuff and choreographed by Sergio Trujillo, is well into the second year of [...]

The latest Jersey Boys Podcast has been posted. JB Podcast #71 includes interviews with Quinn Van Antwerp, who plays Bob Gaudio with the Jersey Boys Toronto Company and Matt Bailey, who plays Tommy DeVito in the JB national tour!

The Telegraph-Journal’s Peter Malcolm has a terrific feature on JERSEY BOYS Toronto’s Shawn Wright, who plays the role of Bob Crewe, the real-life producer who had “the best ears in the business.” “He discovered the Four Seasons’ sound and helped them to create million-sellers,” Wright says. “He doubled (lead singer) Frankie Valli’s voice in the [...]

Dancap Productions announced today that JERSEY BOYS will continue through the winter at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. Tickets are now on sale for performances through to March 21, 2010. Tickets start as low as $25. “Jersey Boys continues to enthrall thousands of people every week at the Toronto Centre for the Arts,” remarked [...]

Frankie Valli, right, sat down with his stage counterpart Jeff Madden, left, who has the role of the singer in JERSEY BOYS. (Photo Credit: RENÉ JOHNSTON/TORONTO STAR) Toronto Star’s Theatre Critic Richard Ouzounian covers the meeting of two JERSEY BOYS–Frankie Valli – the lead singer of The Four Seasons – and Jeff Madden – the [...]

On his Taking the Wheel Blog, JERSEY BOYS Toronto’s Jeff Madden has provided some great fall updates! On his September Song post, Jeff fills everyone in on the past month, including the big news that the Toronto cast raised $22,000 for the CIBC Run for the Cure in support of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation [...]

News from Theatermania.com: The Toronto production of the awarding winning musical Jersey Boys has extended its run at the Toronto Centre for the Arts through January 3, 2010. The company currently features Jeff Madden (Valli), Daniel Robert Sullivan (Devito), Quinn VanAntwerp (Gaudio), and Michael Lomenda (Massi), as well as Gabriel Antonacci, Matthew Brown, Matt Cassidy, [...]

Playing bassist Nick Massi, Michael Lomenda, of Stettler, has found success on the musical theatre stage in Toronto in Jersey Boys. (Photo credit: Joan Marcus Lana Michelin of the Red Deer Advocate has a feature on JERSEY BOYS’ Toronto’s Nick Massi–Michael Lomenda! He stars as one of the Jersey Boys in the hit Toronto musical. [...]

At 11:15 AM today at the Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto, cast members from JERSEY BOYS will kick off the closing ceremony at the Run for a Cure with a medley of songs from the hit show!

Photo Credits: Cheol Joon Baek at BroadwayWorld.com From BroadwayWorld.com: The Toronto Production of Jersey Boys celebrated its 1 Year Anniversary on August 20th with a special performance and a visit from Bob Gaudio (the “final piece of the puzzle” for those who have seen the show) and co-author Rick Elice! The event was a smash [...]

To put it mildly, summer has been nonstop action for the Toronto JERSEY BOYS cast! On Jeff Madden’s Taking the Wheel blog, he fills everyone in on what’s been going on over the last couple of months. Here’s a preview: June 7th – My radio interview on the FAN 590AM comes out. It’s about eight [...]