Jersey Boys Blog

Jim Collins of News-Herald.com is my kind of critic and Jersey Boys fan! Even though he’s a Cleveland reporter who has seen Jersey Boys in old Ohio, he drove 5.5 hours to see JB in Toronto! Here’s a recap of Collins’ Toronto experience: “Outstanding!” “Terrific!” “Best musical I’ve ever seen!” I always listen to comments [...]

Town Crier reporter Lorianna De Giorgio states that she had the time of her life at the opening night of Jersey Boys: The story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons. De Giorgio says that usually not a fan of musicals. Most of the time, she notes that she’d rather watch a two-hour play about [...]

Playbill.com reports that the Toronto engagement of Jersey Boys, part of the North American tour of the Tony-winning musical about Frank Valli and the Four Seasons, has been extended a second time. The limited run, which began Aug. 21 at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, had been scheduled to play through Oct. 5. “Due [...]

David Bateman of Xtra.ca notes that the presence of more than 30 musical numbers, one subtly swishy producer/lyricist character and a handful of hunky men singing high-pitched hit songs is his kind of evening. Jersey Boys is a high-powered, crowd-pleasing spectacle of the first order, that is not to be missed. And we come away [...]

Susan G. Cole of NowToronto.com states that the Jersey Boys’ four central performers take this Tony-winning musical to major heights. The thin story concerns working-class New Jersey guys who rise to the top of the charts in the early 60s as the Four Seasons, pressured by Mob interests and family tensions along the way. Jeremy [...]

Jamie Portman of The Ottawa Citizen notes that Jersey Boys is the kind of big-hearted entertainment that demands to be liked. And it has arrived at the Toronto Centre for the Arts armed with some irresistible weaponry — a remarkable catalogue of ’60s songs evoking the era of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, memorably [...]

Critics and crowds are both giving high praise for Jersey Boys in Toronto! In fact, the show has now been extended through November 9, 2008! Below are excerpts from two of the latest reviews on the big Toronto hit! Mark Andrew Lawrence, BroadwayWorld.com: Jersey Boys is thrilling high-energy entertainment. According to Lawrence, at first glance [...]

Sun Media’s John Coulbourn gives the Toronto production of Jersey Boys FIVE stars in his review and states that if you’ve always harbored a secret desire to hang out with the coolest guys in the neighborhood, the wait is over. In fact, the Jersey Boys might just be the coolest guys on the planet — [...]

Theatre Critic Richard Ouzounian gives Jersey Boys in Toronto a four-star review! The Tony Award-winning musical hit opened at the Toronto Centre for the Arts last night to a thunderous standing ovation that easily answered the question “Was this show worth waiting for?” with a resounding “Yes!” The critic says the more time he sees [...]

TheStar.com’s Theatre Critic Richard Ouzounian states that the story of four guys from New Jersey opened last night at the Toronto Centre for the Arts and it has the capacity to change the lives of four guys from Toronto in very important ways. Ever since it debuted on Broadway in the fall of 2005, Jersey [...]

TheStar.com’s Theatre Critic Richard Ouzounian notes that Joseph Leo Bwarie has the choirboy good looks and the crystal-clear falsetto voice, but those aren’t the things that make Joseph Leo Bwarie such great casting as Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys. The singer-actor embraces his Jersey Boys lead role with the same enthusiasm and energy as the [...]

Reporter Paula Citron from GlobeandMail.com notes Sergio Trujillo, the choreographer of the Dancap production, Jersey Boys, can relate to Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, the real-life heroes of the megahit musical that recounts the rags-to-riches tale of four Italian-American kids who became rock ‘n’ roll sensations in the 1960s. Trujillo grew up in a [...]

From The Canadian Press: Toronto-raised choreographer Sergio Trujillo packed up his dancing shoes and went south nearly a decade ago for a career that saw him broke and living in his car in Los Angeles and cleaning bathrooms in a New York studio before he hit the big time. Now, the world-renowned hotstepper – who [...]

With Jersey Boys making its long-awaited debut in Toronto, TheStar.com’s Theatre Critic Richard Ouzounian, talks to the legendary men behind the music–Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio. During the Las Vegas JB opening in May, Valli told Ouzounian, “We sold over 175 million records. That’s a lot of memories for a lot of people.”

With Jersey Boys beginning previews at the Toronto Centre for the Arts on Thursday and opening on August 24, Toronto newspapers are treating readers to some interesting stories about the Tony Award winning musical! John Coulbourn of TorontoSun.com has an in-depth interview with Des McAnuff, who noted that the first album he purchased back in [...]

BBBBlogger reports that casting has been announced for the Toronto engagement of JERSEY BOYS, playing the Toronto Centre for the Arts (5040 Yonge Street north of Sheppard Avenue) beginning August 21, 2008. The cast of JERSEY BOYS will be lead by Joseph Leo Bwarie (Frankie Valli), original Broadway cast member Steve Gouveia (Nick Massi), Canadian [...]

Entertainment Reporter Bruce DeMara of the Toronto Star spent some time talking with Frankie Valli and Rick Elice, who were in town yesterday to promote the first major Canadian production of Jersey Boys, at the Toronto Centre for the Arts from Aug. 21 to Oct. 5, presented by Dancap Productions. The Tony Award-winning musical, which [...]

Jersey Boys starts performances in Toronto on August 21 in a Dancap production at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. Theatre Critic Richard Ouzounian of the Toronto Star notes that both JB choreographer Sergio Trujillo and director Des McAnuff started their careers in Toronto but have become worldclass theatre artists. According to the critic, Toronto [...]