Jersey Boys Blog

Broadwayworld.com’s Linda Lenzi’s coverage of the Actors’ Fund Awards Gala includes great photos of Jersey Boys’ Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, J. Robert Spencer, and John Lloyd Young, as well as original Four Seasons Bob Gaudio and Frankie Valli!

Visitors to Jersey Boys Blog have asked for more details on Daniel Reichard’s upcoming performance event in Keansburg, New Jersey. Here’s the latest news: Asbury Park Press reports that Daniel Reichard, who plays Bob Gaudio in the megahit musical Jersey Boys, will perform at the Arts Council of Keansburg at 8PM on Monday, May 22, [...]

In today’s Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, film critic Ed Blank talks about his recent Broadway experience seeing a very enthusiastic audience at the smash hit musical Jersey Boys. Blank notes that the first 45 minutes of Jersey Boys sketch the genesis of a Joisey pop singing group in mid to late 1950s that under several names and [...]

On his Gold Derby blog, Tom O’Neil reports that Variety reporter David Rooney provides bold speculation for this year’s Tony race for Best Musical. Rooney stated, “Early speculation in the best musical category has centered on two shows. The Color Purple drew a mixed critical response but has blossomed into a bonafide hit. Jersey Boys [...]

In her Orlando Sentinel blog, Elizabeth Maupin reviews Jersey Boys. Maupin admits that Four Seasons’ hits “never did it for her” –until seeing Jersey Boys, a musical that had her grinning from ear to ear. She notes that a lot of Jersey Boys is very funny, with writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice doing a [...]

Gary Wien’s interview on Upstagemagazine.com with John Lloyd Young provides some interesting insight into everything from Young’s gig as an usher handing out programs at a Broadway theatre a year ago to being one of the hottest new stars on the Great White Way in this season’s hottest show, Jersey Boys. Reflecting on his days [...]

Here’s another amazing Youtube.com video clip of the original Four Seasons (Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, Nick Massi, and Frankie Valli) on “Hullabaloo!” in 1965 singing “Dawn,” “Rag Doll,” “Toy Soldier,” and “Bye, Bye Baby.”

I confess…I’ve always dreamed of being a record producer… Listening to the “Jersey Boys Original Broadway Cast Recording,” followed by the Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons’ “Anthology” made my unusually long 90-minute bumper-to-bumper commute yesterday much more bearable. Being at a complete stop for 20 minutes, I got to thinking about these recordings and [...]

On yesterday’s Fox5 TV’s “Hooray For Broadway: Spring Celebration” program, runaway hit Jersey Boys was one of the featured productions. In addition to clips from the show, host Pat Collins interviewed Bob, Gaudio, Frankie Valli, and John Lloyd Young. In case you missed it, or would like to see a repeat performance, check out the [...]

San Diego Union-Tribune pop music critic George Varga features two San Diego brothers—Kevin and Ken Dow–who have made it big on Broadway as part of the band in Jersey Boys. The two brothers – drummer Kevin, 32, and bassist-singer Ken, 35 have had a musical journey that has taken them from playing in myriad San [...]

Jersey Boys Blog is excited to post Fran Gatto’s wonderful story about what Jersey Boys means to her: When I first heard about a play about Frankie Valli & the 4 Seasons, I knew I had to put it on my list of things to do. I saw the play in previews four days before [...]

New York Post critic Barbara Hoffman claims that WEIRD things are happening at the August Wilson Theatre these days – baby boomers bounce out feeling 16 again, and twentysomethings are singing falsetto—all because of Jersey Boys, the gritty pop-music bio about the ’60s group Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. With stage-door crowds, mid-show ovations, [...]

Reporter Paul Liberator of the Marin Independent Journal provides an insightful interview with legendary Four Seasons leader Frankie Valli. Valli talks about his forty-plus years of success in the music business; his four-decade partnership with original Four Seasons member Bob Gaudio; his guest role in the hit HBO series “The Sopranos,” and the smash hit [...]

Atlantic City Weekly’s Steve Angelucci highlights the career of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, who appeared this weekend at Caesars this weekend on the heels of the successful Broadway show, Jersey Boys. Long before the term “doo-wop” came into being, Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi sang street-corner harmony that they [...]

Although Frankie Valli lives 3,000 miles from the August Wilson Theater, he is the star of this season’s hit musical, Jersey Boys. How’d that happen? Valli tells NorthJersey.com’s David J. Spatz that his persistence to bring the story of the Four Seasons to the stage finally paid off. At first, Valli and his partner, original [...]

John Lloyd Young, currently starring as Frankie Valli in Broadway’s megahit Jersey Boys, had his caricature unveiled at Sardi’s Restaurant on Thursday, February 23, 2006. Young’s likeness will join the ranks of Broadway royalty who have been honored with a caricature on the famous walls of Sardi’s. For photos of Young, Alison Franck, Christian Hoff, [...]

NYC City Guide Magazine reports that the unstoppable musical Jersey Boys has a big, big celebrity following. Among the A-listers spotted taking in the splendid Four Seasons biography in recent weeks were Nicole Kidman, Kevin Spacey, Pierce Brosnan, Katie Couric, Michelle Pfeiffer, Calvin Klein, Joan Rivers, Larry David, Shirley MacLaine, Harvey Keitel, Helen Hunt, Sherry [...]

On last night’s Late Show with David Letterman, musical director and sidekick Paul Shaffer couldn’t curb his enthusiasm as he talked about the night’s appearance from the cast of Jersey Boys! Shaffer raved to Letterman about how poignant show is and how you will laugh and cry when you see it (all true!), and how [...]

The Providence Journal’s Leslie Gray Streeter states that The Four Seasons are a lot of things: American music icons, the 1960s standard-bearers of doo-wop pop, one of the few groups stateside to withstand and survive in the midst of Beatlemania and the craze over all things British, and the inspiration for one very popular Broadway [...]