Jersey Boys Blog

For the THIRD consecutive week, the Grammy-winning, RIAA Certified Platinum JERSEY BOYS Original Cast Recording held the Number One position on the Billboard Top Cast Albums Chart! Visit Playbill.com’s PLAYBLOG to get the full details on the best-selling theatre CDS, as reported by billboard.biz, issue date Dec. 18, 2010.

Another sensational review for the JB national tour in Boston! Here’s a preview to Gwenn Friss’ write-up on CapeCodOnline.com: Having seen Frankie Valli at The Melody Tent in Hyannis this summer, I thought “Jersey Boys” actor Joseph Leo Bwarie had down all the gestures Friday night that really capture the lead singer of The Four [...]

James Moody (March 26, 1925 – December 9th 2010): Earlier this month, James Moody, an institution in jazz from the late ’40s into the 21st century, passed away. Mr. Moody, who was born in Savanah, Georgia and was raised in Newark, New Jersey, was the great jazz saxophonist and flautist best known for his recorded [...]

The JERSEY BOYS national tour production has returned to Boston at the Colonial Theatre and the critics are singing the hit show’s praises. Check out previews to the first two rave reviews: Lauren Beckham Falcone, BostonHerald.com: And while their story would have made a so-so VH1 “Behind the Music,” it shines, shimmies and sizzles on [...]

OnlineColleges.org has created the “Top 50 Theater Blogs” and has included Jersey Boys Blog in their extensive list! Check out what they said about JBB: 41. Jersey Boys Blog: This blogger loved the show so much, the blog was named after it. In addition to learning more about why the show was great, there are [...]

Voting for BroadwayWorld.com’s Best of Las Vegas Awards has opened! JERSEY BOYS Vegas and several of the talented cast members have been nominated: Best Book Musical Best Choreography in a Strip Show Best Concert (short run) *Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons* Best Local Show Best performance by a featured actor in a musical Best [...]

Three-year-old Jarrod Spector on the Al Albert’s Christmas Special in 1984 singing for Santa.

From BroadwayWorld.com: JERSEY BOYS has joined together with the Italian Home for Children to help bring joy to those in need this holiday season. During performances of JERSEY BOYS December 16th – 19th, patrons attending a performance are invited to bring an unwrapped toy to Boston’s Colonial Theatre to be donated to a Boston area [...]

(Photo Credit #3-16: BroadwayWorld.com This is the final segment covering the amazing Q&A event at the Paley Center for Media on November 8, The Crowd Goes Wild: Five Years of Jersey Boys, which featured original Four Seasons members Bob Gaudio and Frankie Valli and JERSEY BOYS writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. The event was [...]

News from Jersey Boys: The Philadelphia engagement of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning musical JERSEY BOYS broke the box office record at the Forrest Theatre for the eighth time, grossing $1,514,718 for the week ending December 12, its final week in Philly. This tops the previous record of $1,486,620, which they set the week [...]

Going strong all over the globe and on the Billboard Top Cast Albums chart! For the second consecutive week, the Grammy-winning, RIAA Certified Platinum JERSEY BOYS Original Cast Recording held the Number One position on the Billboard Top Cast Albums Chart! Visit Playbill.com’s PLAYBLOG to get the full details on the best-selling theatre CDS, as [...]

Bob Gaudio (Photo Credit: J.T. Macmillan Photography) Jed Gottlieb of The Boston Herald has posted an interview with the legendary Bob Gaudio, who discusses the global success of JERSEY BOYS, the 50-year Four Seasons’ phenomenon, and other artists’ covering the songwriter’s hits. Here’s a sneak peek: “Jersey Boys,” the smash musical based on the story [...]

Reporter Joel Brown states, “A good Frankie Valli is hard to find.” In today’s article in Boston.com, Brown interviews production supervisor Richard Hester, assistant choreographer Danny Austin, and the JERSEY BOYS national tour’s Frankie Valli, Joseph Leo Bwarie about the demands of the role, along with details about “Frankie Camp,” which is described as “a [...]

Today, December 10, marks the fourth Anniversary of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning musical JERSEY BOYS national tour. The JERSEY BOYS National Tour opened at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco and has gone on to play 38 cities since then. JERSEY BOYS is currently playing at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia, where it [...]

Joseph Leo Bwarie (Photo Credit: Joan Marcus) Correspondent R. Scott Reedy has a great piece on Joseph Leo Bwarie, who will be playing Frankie Valli in JERSEY BOYS national tour’s return to Boston next week. Here’s a preview: With family all over the Boston area, performer Joseph Leo Bwarie – who has been playing Frankie [...]

JB National tour’s performance at BC/EVA’s Gypsy of the Year (Photo Credit: Peter James Zielinski)> As reported earlier, the JERSEY BOYS first national tour company raised the most money out of ALL participating shows at the Annual BC/EFA Gypsy of the Year event! For full photo coverage, visit BroadwayWorld.com.

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has just wrapped the 22nd Annual Gypsy of the Year Competition at the New Amsterdam Theatre and JERSEY BOYS has BIG news to share: JERSEY BOYS First National Tour raised more money for BC/EFA than ANY OTHER SHOW–on Broadway, Off Broadway, and On Tour. This year, the JB national tour raised [...]