Jersey Boys Blog

Tomorrow MONDAY MARCH 24th Daniel Reichard will be singing at Barnes and Noble at Lincoln Center for a promotional/educational event for CANDIDE. It starts at 7:30. It will feature myself, Lauren Wersham, and Jamie Bernstein (Leonard Bernstein’s daughter), singing a few songs from the show and discussing the show’s history. From April 8th to April [...]

Playbill.com’s Sheryl Flatow has a marvelous profile on Christopher Kale Jones, who has been wowing! audiences as Frankie Valli in the national tour of Jersey Boys since it began in December 2006. Here is a sample of the kinds of reviews Christopher Kale Jones has received for his portrayal of Frankie Valli in the first [...]

In The Observer today, Kathryn Flett, who is the daughter of Doug Flett, co-writer of Frankie Valli’s “Fallen Angel” in 1976, reflects on her father and the song that has found itself on center stage in Jersey Boys. I don’t really do theatre, but last week I was my father’s date for the first night [...]

The latest reviews from London in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and The Independent. Susannah Clapp, The Guardian: What’s more, it’s got a sharp book, and a far from weedy rags-to-riches story. Together with director Des McAnuff, Marshall Brickman (who collaborated with Woody Allen on Annie Hall) and Rick Elice have come up with a [...]

Telegraph’s Roya Nikkhah states that the musical Jersey Boys has made Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons the toast of the West End, winning them rave reviews and standing ovations. Yet the pop stars whose appeal in the Fifties and Sixties was their clean-cut image had links to the Mob, who helped them in their [...]

The Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons UK Enthusiasts and Historical Society has a terrific website dedicated to the group. The UK fans have spoken! Here’s a preview of the fans’ verdict: One of the key requirements of this show is the timing of delivery at special moments. Ryan achieved this to perfection with ‘Can’t [...]

More UK critical acclaim for Jersey Boys! Here’s the latest! From Philip Fisher, Western Mail: OH what a night! Jersey Boys is set to be a musical highlight of 2008 and quite possibly several years to come…Jersey Boys melds the Four Seasons back catalogue, with a rags-to-riches story that entertains and, at times, warms the [...]

On March 22, 1975, Frankie Valli hit Number One on the Billboard Pop Chart with “My Eyes Adored You.” The song stayed in the top spot for one week and remained on the chart for 23 weeks. This song, written by the Four Seasons long-time producer and co-writer, Bob Crewe, and Kenny Nolan, was a [...]

Critics and crowds are loving Jersey Boys in Minneapolis! Below are excerpts from two reviews! Rohan Preston of the Star Tribune had an amazing time watching Jersey Boys. He states, My happiness as I left the Orpheum was due in no small part to an impressive and engaging “Jersey Boys” cast that includes Christopher Kale [...]

Get your recorders and TIVOs ready! NBC will be re-airing the LAW AND ORDER episode “The Exectioner” that features Bobby Spencer this Saturday night!! Check your local listings for times.

Paul Callan of The Daily Express adored Jersey Boys, and so did the audience! The show, with its sharp edge and documentary style, stunned Broadway – and it did just that again on Tuesday night in London. The audience rose as one at the end of a show that brought memories flooding back to many. [...]

According to Baz Bamigboye of The Daily Mail–Martin Scorsese wants it, so does Steven Spielberg and even Tom Hanks. They, and many other directors and producers, are after the film rights to the musical Jersey Boys. Big men are crying in their vodkas over this. Bob Gaudio, who penned most of the hits for Frankie [...]

Thanks to Al Pucino, George Juba & Jim Simmons for sharing their photos of the day. By Audrey Rockman, Jersey Boys Blog Special Correspondent It has been about three weeks since the first Four Seasons old neighborhood Tour and the interest just keeps building. This idea was born out of affection for the show and [...]

“Runaround Sue” rocker Dion (DiMucci) visited the boys of Jersey on March 12. The Bronx-born doo-wop, pop and R&B performer once headlined a quartet (Dion and the Belmonts) much like Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Visit Broadway.com to see the music legend hanging out with the Jersey Boys cast backstage at the August Wilson [...]

Visit GMTV to see the video of the London Jersey Boys singing “Sherry,” “Walk Like A Man,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” and “Bye, Bye Baby”!

Visit GILG to listen to Part 4 of BBC’s “Jersey Beat: The Four Seasons Story”! The final installment features music from 1976 (including the big UK hit “Silver Star”–and some incredible cuts from the 1977 “Helicon” album) through the present and interviews with Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, Lee Shapiro, “Fallen Angel” co-writer Guy [...]

For the second straight week, Jersey Boys Original Broadway Cast Recording held the #2 spot on the Billboard Top Cast Albums chart. This marks the 114th week that the Grammy Award winner and certified gold recording has remained on the chart.

WhatsOnStage.com has round-up of London critics’ Jersey Boys’ reviews. First night critics agreed that this “no-frills production” absolutely “deserves to thrive” and the music of The Four Seasons brings “sheer joy from start to finish”! Also, on Bloomberg.com, critic Warwick Thompson states that “it’s difficult to resist the joyous energy of the numbers…”