Jersey Boys Blog

For the last week in June, Jersey Boys was red HOT at the Broadway box office, grossing $1,151,550! The show also had the highest attendance rate of all shows at 100.8%! The 33 shows on the boards grossed $20,412,791 for the week ending 6/29/08, up over 2.7% from the previous week. Below are the Top [...]

For the second consecutive week, Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording remained in the top position on the Billboard Top Cast Album Chart! This marks the 128th consecutive week that the Grammy Award winner and RIAA Certified Gold recording has remained on the chart.

Fabulous reviews keep popping up all over for the Cleveland production of Jersey Boys! Here are the latest: David Ritchey of Akron.com: The “Jersey Boys” script, by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, is a masterpiece. In one or two lines, Brickman and Elice tell major elements of the storyline and move the plot forward. The [...]

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, [...]

Hi all, – I just wanted to send a quick thank you to all who made such generous donations on my behalf in the Strip-a-Thon for Broadway Bares. It was a hugely successful event. My final total was $2380.00 which added to the $127,630 total for the Strip-a-Thon alone. The entire event raised a total [...]

In the “Theater Talk” video, Marshall Brickman was asked: “What does a Jersey Boys’ cult fanatic look like? His answer: “Eight to 80, but…sort of landing to bounce and land around 60.” This got us really curious about the ages of the Jersey Boys fan base! What age bracket do you fall under? ( polls)

On a recent edition of “Theater Talk,” Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice discuss the devoted Jersey Boys’ fan base and its recent opening in Las Vegas.

Keith A. Joseph of the Cleveland Free Times states that Jersey Boys in Cleveland is a “retro smash” and notes that this hit has tapped into a new market: the brand of macho males who are far more at home with a Bud at a sports bar than with a daiquiri on a mezzanine. In [...]

Playbill.com reports that John Lloyd Young and several other stars have been cast in the new works selected for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s 2008 National Music Theater Conference and Playwrights Conference. The 2008 National Music Theater Conference is the first O’Neill conference to get under way this summer, running June 29-July 18 in Waterford, [...]

Variety.com reports that Turn of the Century, a new tuner from the Jersey Boys team of Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, is set to run from September 19-October 25 at the Goodman’s Albert Theater in Chicago! The musical will star Jeff Daniels and Rachel York and will be directed by Tommy Tune. While the musical [...]

Another solid week for Jersey Boys Broadway at the box office! For the week ending June 22, 2008, JB grossed $1,144,441 and had the highest attendance rate of all shows at 100.7%! The 35 shows on the boards grossed $20,962,854 for the week ending 6/22/08, up over 9% from the previous week. Below are the [...]

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 [...]

Entertainment Weekly is featuring the EW 1000–celebrating the 1000 best movies, TV shows, albums, books, plays & musicals, and more of the past 25 years. Jersey Boys is #5 in EW’s 50 Best Plays and Musicals from 1983 to 2008! Angels in America (1993-94) Rent (1996) August: Osage County (2007) Doubt (2004) Jersey Boys (2005) [...]

Critics all over Northeastern Ohio continue to rave about the national tour production of Jersey Boys that’s playing through July 20 in the State Theatre in Cleveland! Below are the latest fabulous reviews! Milan Paurich of Vindy.com says that the high energy production of Jersey Boys, currently playing at Cleveland’s Playhouse Square through July 20, [...]

The Plain Dealer’s Tony Brown states: judging with the eyes, ears and heart, there’s much to love about “Jersey Boys,” the hit Broadway musical about the Four Seasons, kings of doo-wop. According to Brown, for the eyes, the Broadway design team returns to create a chain-link set straight out of less-gardenlike sections of the Garden [...]

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 [...]