Jersey Boys Blog

Visit JerseyBabys.com to listen to Danielle Gaudio-Lalehzar’s interview with Phlash Phelps about the incredible Four Seasons street renaming event from last week!

Photos courtesy of Danielle Gaudio-Lalehzar. By Charles Alexander, Jersey Boys Blog Correspondent In the Township of Union, New Jersey, once stood a bowling alley that will live forever in the history of the Four Seasons and the memories of their fans. On Wednesday, June 25, 2008, at the Costco that stands on the site now, [...]

What would a street naming be without names, so here is an update as to some of the people who will be on the podium this Wednesday for the “Four Seasons Lane” dedication? Danielle and her sister, Lisa Gaudio will be joining Toni Valli and Darcel DeVito on stage after introductions by Charles Alexander- each [...]

Danielle Gaudio-Lalehzar, the Executive Producer of “Jersey Babys,” came up with the amazing idea of turning The Four Seasons classic hits into sparkling, soothing, and catchy instrumental tracks that appeal not to just kids–but to all generations! Her dad, Bob Gaudio, served as co-producer and co-arranger on this sensational creation and her brother Shannon was [...]

Paul Lieberman of Vindy.com has posted an interesting feature on Jersey Boys, noting that each night The Four Seasons musical plays in one time zone or another–on Broadway, in Chicago, in London, in Vegas–and all over! In fact, there are so many incarnations of the show, or new ones in the works, that they have [...]

Robyn Flans of AmericanProfile.com has a terrific in-depth interview with pop icon Frankie Valli, who talks about his early days, his phenomenal string of hits, and the blockbuster hit Jersey Boys. “I am very thankful for my audience,” says Valli, who’s seen a tremendous upsurge in his concert attendance as Jersey Boys continues to spur [...]

We wish Original Jersey Boy Tommy DeVito a very Happy 80th Birthday today! For more details on Tommy, check out his JBB Exclusive Interview! Photo 2: Courtesy of Stonewallvets.org; Photo 3: Courtesy of BroadwayWorld.com

By Audrey Rockman In less than week, there will be the long awaited Street Naming in honor of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame group, The Four Seasons on Wednesday, June 25 at 1:30 in Union, NJ. The event will be held at Costco’s on West Chestnut Street, the site of the Bowling Lanes [...]

John Patrick Gatta of The Morning Journal has a preview story about Jersey Boys coming to the Playhouse Square Center’s State Theatre in Cleveland. Gatta spoke with Andrew Rannells, who plays Bob Gaudio in the JB national tour. Here’s a sneak peek of what Andrew has to say about playing the legendary songwriter: Now, that [...]

Plain Dealer Theater Critic Tony Brown fills everyone in on the real story behind The Four Seasons’ arrest in Cleveland. Here’s the real story: On Sept. 6, 1965, a Labor Day Monday, The Four Seasons played a variety show hosted at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus by TV personality Mike Douglas. Columbus cops arrested [...]

Cleveland is getting ready for Jersey Boys, which begins at Playhouse Square on Wednesday! Cleveland.com’s John Soebel has a terrific feature on the distinctive sound of The Four Seasons. Soebel’s introduction to The Four Seasons was a television commercial for a best-of compilation. Against a montage of performance clips, a list of song titles scrolled [...]

Tony Brown, Cleveland Plain Dealer Theater Critic states, “Oh, what a night — the night Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons got busted in Cleveland.” But did it really happen the way the hit Broadway show “Jersey Boys,” which tells the story of the Four Seasons, says it did? Fuhgettaboudit. The night in question is [...]

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 [...]

Sheryl Flatlow of Playbill.com has an in-depth interview with Bob Gaudio and Frankie Valli, who reflect on their roles as members of the chart-topping 4 Seasons and the monster hit Jersey Boys, based on their lives, that has been thrilling audiences and critics alike on Broadway, around the country and across the pond. In addition [...]

Visit JerseyBabys.com to listen to the XM Radio Phlash Phelps’ interviews with Danielle Gaudio-Lalehzar and Bob Gaudio!

Jersey Boys national tour begins performances in Cincinnati’s Procter and Gamble Hall at the Aronoff Center of the Arts beginning Wednesday, May 21! Enquirer.com’s Jackie Demaline has a two-part article on Jersey Boys, that includes some fascinating commentary by JB co-author Rick Elice. In the ‘I didn’t know that!’ article, Rick Elice thinks the Four [...]

By JB Blog Special Correspondent and Fan Organizer of the Four Seasons Neighborhood Tour, Audrey Rockman One week from tomorrow, the Memorial Day Memory Tour will be taking THE SHOW on the road, heading for destinations known and unknown. Research is still in gear with a visit today to the high school in Belleville where [...]

Check out the Strip Podcast interview with Frankie Valli! Frankie talks about the unbelievable success of JERSEY BOYS, the music industry, his incredible career and its ups and downs, the new generations discovering the music of The Four Seasons, why he pulled out of his Vegas contract a few years ago at the Luxor, and [...]