Jersey Boys Blog

The first review of the Detroit production of JERSEY BOYS has arrived online! According to Susan Whitall of The Detroit News, JB tells a story of blue-collar musical success with so much emotional resonance locally, it’s amazing it took it so long to play here. They scored with hook-laden songs written by Gaudio, a musical [...]

BY JBB Special Correspondents Pamela Singer and Gary Neuberg So you may wonder, “How does a born and bred Jersey Boy currently wowing audiences in Las Vegas playing…well, another born and bred Jersey Boy, end up in the heart of New York City being honored with a caricature at Sardi’s?” In Rick Faugno’s case, the [...]

News from BroadwayWorld.com: JERSEY BOYS Original Broadway Cast Recording topped Billboard’s Top Cast Album chart for the week ending December 19, 2009. This marks the 205th straight week that the RIAA Certified Platinum, Grammy Award-winning recording has remained on the chart. Some of us need a daily dose of the OBCR, right? Since November, 2005–the [...]

Christina Fuoco-Karasinski has a marvelous interview with Detroit native and long-time JERSEY BOYS cast member Eric Gutman. Eric is thrilled to be back home in Detroit playing the role of Norm Waxman in the hit musical. Regarding Waxman, Eric states, “Norm, without giving away too much, is the bad guy in the show in a [...]

Journal Register News Service reporter Gary Graff has a terrific Q&A with the legendary pop icon Frankie Valli, who talks about the JERSEY BOYS phenomenon. Below is a preview: Q: So what has “Jersey Boys” meant to you? Valli: It’s been incredible. It’s been an entire rejuvenation of a career. It’s not that we ever [...]

Tune-in TODAY to catch the JERSEY BOYS Chicago appearance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” Oprah re-airs her September 21st episode where she takes a trip back in time to the ’60s!

(Photo 2 Credit: Tom & Diane Schoenith) John Monaghan, Free Press Special Writer, notes that when “Jersey Boys” finally makes its Detroit debut tonight, local theatergoers may be surprised to discover that Detroit’s Roostertail is referenced in the show. That’s because the venerable restaurant-club played a role in making “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of [...]

(Photos courtesy of Linda Lenzi at BroadwayWorld.com) From December 12-14, Daniel Reichard presented his fantastic holiday benefit concerts, ‘Gettin’ on the Good List’ at the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theatre! The concerts, which benefited International Partners in Mission, featured many multi-talented Broadway stars, including Bobby Spencer, Peter Gregus, Kelly Kinsella, Michael Lowney, Beth Kuhn, Emily Bottorff, [...]

JB National Tour’s Four Seasons: Steve Gouveia, Joseph Leo Bwarie, Josh Franklin, and Matt Bailey (Photo Credit: Joan Marcus) Tonight through January 23, 2010, the JERSEY BOYS national tour will be playing in Detroit at the Fisher Theatre. Here’s a sneak peek into what reporters are saying about the blockbuster hit! Lawrence B. Johnson, Detroit [...]

View more news videos at: http://www.nbcchicago.com/video. After two phenomenal years as a resident production, JERSEY BOYS Chicago will have their final curtain call on January 10, 2010. The Chicago Company broke many box office records and will have played a total of 951 performances in the Windy City.

Our first evening in New York back in October couldn’t have started out on a higher note–a JBB EXCLUSIVE Interview with all four JERSEY GIRLS in their dressing room before their Thursday evening performance on October 22! It was fantastic to catch up with Original Broadway cast members Heather Ferguson (Lorraine and others) and Sara [...]

Exciting news to report! Rick Faugno, JERSEY BOYS Las Vegas’ Frankie Valli will be honored at Sardi’s Restaurant in New York with his own caricature! The presentation will take place at the storied theatre district eatery on Wednesday, December 16th from 4PM-6PM. Sardi’s, a Broadway landmark for more than 80 years, is located within the [...]

The story of The Four Seasons–JERSEY BOYS–broke the box office record for the fourth time at the National Theatre in the nation’s capital! In its final week in DC (the week ending Sunday, December 13), the show grossed $1,322,070.00, breaking its own record set last week. On Broadway, JB was the ONLY sold out show [...]

Members from the Oklahoma Sooners women’s basketball team celebrated at Jersey Boys on Friday evening. In the 2008-09 season, the Sooners made it to the Final Four of the 2009 NCAA Women’s Division I Basketball Tournament. (Photo Credit: Ryan Burke at BroadwayWorld.com)

Rick Faugno rehearses a dance number for the debut of his first solo show, “Songs My Idols Sang (And Danced).” (Photo Credit: Leila Navidi) Great news to begin your New Year! On Sunday afternoon, January 24, 2010, Rick Faugno will be performing his one-man show, “Songs My Idols Sang (And Danced)” at the South Point [...]

(Photos 1 & 2 courtesy of BroadwayWorld.com; Photos 3 & 4: courtesy of BroadwayWorld.com) Over the last several weeks, JERSEY BOYS Vegas cast members have participated in some wonderful community events with fellow performers from The Strip’s hottest shows. On November 24, Rick Faugno was one of the ‘celebrity servers’ at the Le Cordon Bleu [...]

Photo Credit: Maranda Ettawageshik By Ally Hemauer On November 30, I attended the Jersey Boys TPAN/Sidetrack benefit and let me say it was a blast! The show started around 6:30 P.M., and was hosted by our Bob Crewe, Kevin Crewell. Rather than perform showtunes for the benefit, they decided to perform rock songs since they [...]

Andrea Blum of The News Herald has a preview of JERSEY BOYS, the touring production will call Detroit’s Fisher Theatre home beginning Thursday through January 23. The blue-collar lives of Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi and their meteoric rise to fame are explored throughout the show. Michigan native Eric Gutman has [...]

Withjosh.com’s Josh Skinner sits down with Taylor Sternberg from the hit Broadway musical JERSEY BOYS. Sternberg discuses his journey from growing up in Southern California to joining the first national tour of JERSEY BOYS and eventually the Broadway cast. Visit Withjosh.com to read his accompanying blog post about Taylor!