Jersey Boys Blog

DailySouthtown.com notes that it would be a terrific show if only for showcasing the greatest hits of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. But Jersey Boys, in its opening at the LaSalle Bank Theatre in Chicago, has even more than memorable music going for it. The rags-to-riches tale of this dazzling musical is irresistible. Yet [...]

It happened again! For the week ending October 14, 2007, Jersey Boys grossed $1,272,077; marking the 26th time the show has topped itself since it opened nearly two years ago at the August Wilson Theatre! As with the previous three weeks, JB was the ONLY sold out show on Broadway last week, with a 100.8% [...]

Barbara Vitello of the Daily Herald states that there is no Sherry, no Dawn, no Marianne in Jersey Boys. There are no big girls crying. Jersey Boys doesn’t entirely conform to the jukebox formula, namely a score cobbled together from hit tunes, around which a contrived narrative is shoehorned. Instead, this exuberant bio-musical about the [...]

Chicago Tribune Theater Critic Chris Jones says Jersey Boys is a show that walks like a hit, acts like the big man in town and deserves to stay. This one gets the big things right. It doesn’t mess with the sound—such Gaudio-penned hits as “Sherry,” “Walk Like a Man,” and “Rag Doll” are delivered with [...]

Chicago Sun-Times Theater Critic Hedy Weiss says Jersey Boys is “pure platinum”! The 2006 Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, has arrived in Chicago in a supercharged knockout of a national touring company production. At Sunday’s opening, Valli and Gaudio came up on stage to take bows and hug their remarkable doppelgangers, giving the audience a chance [...]

Pauline Dubkin Yearwood of Chicago Jewish News has a terrific piece on Jersey Boys, including interviews with cast members Jarrod Spector, John Michael Coppola, and Steven M. Goldsmith. Jarrod Spector is playing the role of a lifetime when he appears as Frankie Valli, the lead in the highly anticipated touring company production of Jersey Boys, [...]

Photo courtesy of Genevieve Rafter Keddy. We wish Michael Longoria a Happy Birthday! In addition to playing Joe Pesci since Jersey Boys opened on Broadway almost two years ago, the multi-talented Michael plays the role of Frankie Valli on Wednesday and Saturday matinee performances. Prior to Jersey Boys, Michael performed in the Broadway production of [...]

Chicago Tribune entertainment reporter Terry Armour covered Jersey Boys’ opening night at LaSalle Bank Theatre in Chicago tonight. He states that there are two things Frankie Valli could never have dreamed. First, that a bunch of New Jersey kids would gain worldwide fame as The Four Seasons. And second, that some years later that group [...]

With Jersey Boys’ performances in so many cities (Broadway, SF, LA, Sacramento, Tempe, and now Chicago)–we’re betting that the numbers have EXPLODED! So, we’d like to ask the ever-popular question once again–How many times have you seen Jersey Boys? Poll Survey – Take Our Poll

Here’s the latest auction item that you’ll be able to bid on in person during the upcoming Jersey Boys Fans Unite to Support BC/EFA event on Sunday, October 21! Signed JERSEY BOYS Script: Don’t miss this opportunity for this signed script from the 2006 Tony Award Winning cast of JERSEY BOYS! Over the next several [...]

Barbara Vitello of the Daily Herald says it took more than three years from the time Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio realized The Four Seasons story might make a better musical than TV film for Jersey Boys to become a reality. “It was a pipe dream then,” Gaudio says, one of the original Four Seasons [...]

Here’s the latest auction item that you’ll be able to bid on in person during the upcoming Jersey Boys Fans Unite to Support BC/EFA event on October 21! Framed “Sherry” Sheet Music Prop: Your very own JERSEY BOYS prop. This is the actual sheet music used onstage and signed by Tony Award winners John Lloyd [...]

The funny lines in Jersey Boys are….ubiquitous! In fact, there were so many hilarious male supporting character lines throughout the show, that we’ll be doing two polls! For our fifth “JB Funniest Lines” poll, we would like to know: What’s the funniest male supporting character line in Act One of Jersey Boys?? You can vote [...]

Thank you to everyone who responded to the latest Jersey Boys Blog Poll: What’s Joe Pesci’s funnies line? It was a very close race! Out of the 187 respondents, 51 (27%) said that Joe Pesci’s funniest line in JB was: “For the group! The Lovers or the Romans or whatever the fu*k it is this [...]

Here is today’s auction item that you’ll be able to bid on during the upcoming Jersey Boys Fans Unite to Support BC/EFA event on October 21! Framed Cry For Me Sheet Music Prop: Your very own JERSEY BOYS prop. This is the actual sheet music used onstage and signed by Tony Award winners John Lloyd [...]

Philip Potempo of NWI.com states that it’s been nearly two years since its smash Broadway debut, but Academy Award-winning writer Marshall Brickman says he’s still amazed at how popular Jersey Boys remains. The musical story of singer Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons premieres in Chicago at the LaSalle Bank Theatre, 18 W. Monroe Ave., [...]

Louis R. Carlozo of the Chicago Tribune states that The Four Seasons were the originals! He notes that it’s easy — too easy — to write off The Four Seasons as a passing whiff of the celebratory ’60s, a band with an impossibly high-pitched singer that got left in the dust of Beatlemania, now reduced [...]

Get your TIVOs, DVRs, and VCRs ready! Frankie Valli will be making an appearance on “Entertainment Tonight” this evening! Check your local listings for times.

Here’s the latest auction item that you’ll be able to bid on during the upcoming Jersey Boys Fans Unite to Support BC/EFA event on October 21! Set of 4 LP Coasters: These rare LP coasters are each created from an original record, which has been trimmed to frame the label with a thin ring of [...]