Jersey Boys Blog

JERSEY BOYS Vegas Stage Manager Mandy Horan is getting ready to say goodbye to her hair to raise money for St. Baldrick’s–a charity that raises funds for pediatric cancer. Let’s help Mandy reach her $5,500 goal! Here’s a message from Mandy asking for our help! Hello! Yep you heard it right- I am going bald [...]

Bob Gaudio with son-in-law Jimmy Kasanjian, daughter Danielle Gaudio-Lalehzar, wife Judy, daughter Lisa Gaudio, and granddaughter Brianna Gaudio (Photo by Joe Camporeale) Allison Schiff of Twin-Boro News has a terrific feature on Bob Gaudio! On Tuesday, February 3, it was officially named “Bob Gaudio Day” in Bergenfield in a proclamation by the borough mayor and [...]

Joanne Greco Rochman states that traditionally, standing ovations are given at the end of a show, but “Jersey Boys” brought a wildly excited crowd to its feet after Joseph Leo Bwarie as Frankie Valli sang “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.” It was spontaneous, well-deserved, and the first ovation of the evening. Completely winning over [...]

Get ready for tonight! JERSEY BOYS Chicago’s Nick Massi–Michael Ingersoll will be appearing with Patrick Swayze on “The Beast” TONIGHT on A&E at 9pm Central Time. Congratulations to Michael!

Jersey Boys Blog has reached a new milestone. Two really, if you count the launch of the new Jersey Boys Widget. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let me start at the beginning. Over the weekend, The Blog reached 3,000,000 page views. Those pages were viewed by over 1,000,000 unique visitors that have read 3,381 [...]

Rick Elice and Frankie Valli pose with the Melbourne Jersey Boys cast members at last week’s press launch in Las Vegas. JERSEY BOYS Melbourne opens at the Princess Theatre on July 4, 2009! The Tony Award-winning musical’s writer, Rick Elice told Australian AAP that he is confident the Australian version of JERSEY BOYS will be [...]

From Playbill.com: Bobby Spencer, his castmates, and Next to Normal are among the theatre artists and productions nominated for the 25th anniversary Helen Hayes Awards! These awards, that celebrate excellence in Washington, DC-area theatre in 2008, were announced February 9. Check out these amazing nominations: Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production: J. Robert Spencer, Next to [...]

The top video features the Bergenfield High School Band playing a medley of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons hits and the bottom video features four young Jersey Boys in their red jackets performing “Sherry”!

Photos courtesy of Danielle Gaudio-Lalehzar On February 3, 2009, Bob Gaudio was the guest of honor at Bergenfield High School for his very own high school graduation! Bergenfield Public Schools’ Superintendent Dr. Michael Kuchar was behind the event honoring Bob Gaudio. The day’s theme and the message for students was to “DREAM BIG”! Highlights of [...]

Kory Loucks reports: Oh what a show. First rate, unforgettable music, and lots of it, combined with a rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches story about a time in the 1950s when men were men, especially if they were Italian, and the only options to get out of poverty in inner-city New Jersey were either crime or singing, or in [...]

Playbill.com has learned that Tony Award winner John Lloyd Young has landed a guest-starring role on the new Fox television series “GLEE.” The former star of Broadway’s Jersey Boys will play a retired wood shop teacher with an excellent singing voice. The new series from Ryan Murphy, creator of “Nip/Tuck,” is scheduled to begin production [...]

Two years ago this week, JERSEY BOYS Original Cast Recording won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album! Two years later–the RIAA Certified Gold recording is on top of the Billboard Top Cast Albums chart for the second straight week. This marks the 160th consecutive week that the recording has remained on the chart.

JERSEY BOYS Broadway grossed $934,055 at the box office and had a 91.1% attendance rate for the week ending February 8, 2009. The 23 shows on the boards grossed $12,353,028, up almost 4% from the previous week. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending February 8, 2009. Wicked $1,169,304 Billy [...]

News from Jennifer Naimo’s blog! She will be appearing on the Tuesday, February 10 episode of Nip/Tuck entitled “Manny Skerritt.” Jennifer plays a casting director in the episode, where she says “a bit of Mary Delgado was called upon”! Congratulations to Jen on her latest role! Check local listings for times and details.     [...]

So much exciting news about JERSEY BOYS OBC’s new projects! From Playbill.com: Bobby Spencer and his castmates Alice Ripley, Aaron Tveit, Jennifer Damiano, Adam Chanler-Beret, and Louis Hobson will head into a Manhattan recording studio February 11 and 12 to preserve the score of Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s NEXT TO NORMAL! Ghostlight Records will [...]

News on John Lloyd Young’s blog: The trailer for OY VEY! MY SON IS GAY!! is now online. Click HERE to download. Congratulations to JLY!

Donna Larcen of the Hartford Courant states that JERSEY BOYS, the musical biography of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons is tough, tender and terrific. The songs are already hits. What makes this production work are the clever staging, the rotating narration by members of the quartet, and including the audience in the production. When [...]

Erich Bergen, Rick Faugno, Frankie Valli, Jeff Leibow and Deven May News from BroadwayWorld.com: This week, the cast of Jersey Boys Las Vegas welcomed Frankie Valli and Rick Elice, co-writer of Jersey Boys, as together they proudly introduced the cast of the upcoming Australian company in a private event at the Jersey Boys Theatre at [...]

Photo Credits: BroadwayWorld.com News from BroadwayWorld.com: On Wednesday February 4th, Erich Bergen and Jeff Leibow from Jersey Boys Las Vegas participated in a fundraising celebrity pizza-making competition on behalf of the Liberace Foundation for the Performing and Creative Arts. The ‘Celebrity Cook-Off’ was held at the grand opening celebration of the newest Sammy’s Woodfired Pizza [...]