Jersey Boys Blog

By Audrey Rockman, Jersey Boys Blog Special Correspondent When Robin Becker, Belleville resident since moving from Oklahoma in 1974, signed up for a tour last spring to see Jersey Boys, she had no idea that the wheels were being set in motion for her debut on a Broadway stage. Fast forward to dinner Tuesday night [...]

Heather Ferguson reports on her blog that she is SO excited to be working on a new musical to be presented at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) festival this Monday, called Tinyard Hill. Heather will be joined by fellow JB cast member Colin Donnell, in addition to Sally Mayes and Michael Lanning. She [...]

On Sunday evening October 21, 2007 fans of the award winning musical smash JERSEY BOYS will have the rare opportunity to meet Broadway’s “Four Seasons” at an exclusive cocktail party benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA). Tony Award winner John Lloyd Young (Frankie Valli), Tony Award winner Christian Hoff (Tommy DeVito) , Daniel Reichard (Bob [...]

Jersey Boys national tour cast member Jackie Seiden reports on her blog that October 14 will be her last day with the show. She states that after much consideration, and with the blessing of the entire creative staff, she has decided to give her notice. Jackie says that the past year has been a crazy [...]

Playbill.com reports that Drew Gehling, Jeremy Kushnier and Jarrod Spector — who played The Four Seasons in the San Francisco engagement of Jersey Boys — repeat their roles alongside Michael Ingersoll as the Chicago run of the hit musical begins TONIGHT! Presented in Chicago by Broadway In Chicago and TheatreDreams, Jersey Boys plays the LaSalle [...]

TONIGHT at Midnight at Ars Nova, Daniel will be hosting a keg party concert (yes, a real keg party) called KEGGER. He’ll have a hot band and lots of fun music! Guests for KEGGER include Jersey Boys’ Christian Hoff, Dominic Nolfi, and Donnie Kehr, along with actress Amy Wren, the wild and outrageous Wendy Ho, [...]

For the second consecutive week, Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording remained at the Number One position on the Billboard Cast Album chart, according to Playbill.com! This week also marks the 90th straight week that the Rhino CD has been on the chart. Below are the Top 5 Cast Albums from Billboard: Jersey Boys Wicked Mama [...]

By Lauren Avila, Jersey Boys Blog Special Correspondent San Francisco saw the end of Jersey Boys’ 10-month run last weekend. September 29th was Jarrod Spector’s last show at the Curran Theatre. He did a marvelous job and was very well-praised for it! The entire show was a spectacular hit, with one thunderous round of applause [...]

Photos courtesy of Genevieve Rafter Keddy.

Terry Loncaric of the Northwest Herald has a terrific preview of Jersey Boys, which opens this weekend at the LaSalle Bank Theatre in Chicago! The reporter notes that many stage dramatizations of pop stars are airbrushed, fluffy “jukebox” musicals with little substance. The story serves as window dressing for an evening of greatest hits. Winning [...]

Mike Danahey of Courier News Online reports that When the Tony Award-winning Jersey Boys settles into the LaSalle Bank Theatre in downtown Chicago for an extended run beginning today, the cast of the biographical musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons will include two performers with roots in the Chicago area–Lauren Marshal and Mike [...]

Tara Brite of the ASU Web Devil notes that she grew up with the Four Seasons, thanks to her dad’s obsession with the ’60s pop band. No family road trip, no matter how short, was complete without at least one sing-along. Tara, however, wasn’t too thrilled with the Seasons’ music at the time. But when [...]

On Tuesday, October 2nd, Gerard Alessandrini’s Forbidden Broadway marked its 25th Anniversary with a brand-new edition Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening, at the 47th Street Theatre (304 West 47 Street). To mark the occasion, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Office of Theatre, Film and Television named October 2, 2007 as “Forbidden Broadway Day.” Check out photos of Daniel [...]

Yesterday was a BIG day for Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons fans! For the first time since 1992, Frankie Valli has released a new CD–”Romancing the ’60s”! Stay tuned to Jersey Boys Blog for samples and a review of this incredible new CD!

BroadwayWorld.com reports that you can enter now to win two tickets to “Jersey Boys Fans Unite to Support Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS!” On Sunday evening October 21, fans of the Tony Award-winning musical smash Jersey Boys will have the rare opportunity to meet Broadway’s “Four Seasons” at an exclusive cocktail party followed by a private [...]

The legendary Frankie Valli will be this year’s grand marshal at San Francisco’s 139th ANNUAL ITALIAN HERITAGE PARADE on Sunday, October 7! More than 400,000 revelers are expected at the ANNUAL ITALIAN HERITAGE PARADE! This is San Francisco’s oldest civic event and the nation’s oldest Italian-American parade and community celebration. A San Francisco institution since [...]

Kerry Lengel of The Arizona Republic states that Jersey Boys strikes all the right notes! It certainly makes the most of its Sopranos atmosphere, with its tough-guy accents and plentiful F-bombs, even though the local Mafia don owes more to Marlon Brando than James Gandolfini. Mostly, though, Jersey Boys soars on the power of personality. [...]

By Howard Tucker, Special Correspondent Tonight, at the renowned Taj Lounge on W. 21st Street in the Chelsea section of New York City , Jersey Boys’ very own Christopher Kale Jones and Jennifer Marie Coker (Fame on 42nd Street, Evil Dead the Musical) married. The bride was smashing and the groom strikingly dapper. The Jersey [...]

Kathy Allen of the Arizona Daily Star says that Jersey Boys is fun. Lots and lots of fun. Credit some fine acting and even finer singing to the four lads who play the members of the singing group. These actors, who appear to have been born long after The Four Seasons faded away with the [...]