Jersey Boys Blog

Critic Christopher Soden was pleasantly surprised by JERSEY BOYS in Dallas! Check out a sneak peek of his rave review: I don’t think I can emphasize enough how Jersey Boys succeeds by repeatedly confounding our expectations. I prefer the Beatles to The Four Seasons by far, yet Jersey Boys is clearly superior to Rain. Generally [...]

Your browser doesn’t support iFrames Vote for this poll here. Thanks to everyone who voted in our last JBB Poll: Which current or former Jersey Boys cast member would you like to play Frankie Valli in the JB movie? We had a record-breaking turnout with 20,871 votes and Jarrod Spector won by a landslide with [...]

Fantastic news for John Lloyd Young fans! He is not only reprising the “Frankie Valli” role on JERSEY BOYS Broadway through September 30, but his new CD, “My Turn” is available for purchase! If you’re lucky enough to be in NYC this summer, the CD is available for purchase in the lobby of the August [...]

Playbill.com’s series features brief chats with actors commenting on their recent theatregoing experiences, what productions they are looking forward to and more. Here’s the preview to a recent chat with JERSEY BOYS Broadway’s “Nick Massi”–Matt Bogart, who will be seen in the New York Musical Theatre Festival production of Himself and Nora. Q: What show [...]

JERSEY BOYS first national tour’s “Tommy DeVito,” John Gardiner (Photo Credit: Joan Marcus) John Gardiner, who plays “Tommy DeVito” in the JERSEY BOYS first national tour, filled out Broadway.com’s questionnaire about life on the road in the Tony-winning musical. Here’s a preview: The five items I can’t live without on the road: 1. My iPhone [...]

JERSEY BOYS Broadway grossed $887,165 and had a 93.1% attendance rate for the week ending 7/1/12. The 30 shows on the boards grossed $23,877,257, virtually unchanged from the previous week’s totals. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending July 1, 2012. Wicked $2,033,004 The Lion King $1,944,704 The Book Of [...]

Click HERE to watch the CTV News interview with JERSEY BOYS first national tour cast member Kara Tremel, who is a native of Calgary! Kara has toured all over the world and for the first time she is bringing the show home to Calgary.

Happy Independence Day–Let’s celebrate Jersey Style! In 2009, a select group of JERSEY BOYS cast members across America performed a medley of hits from the show, with a new orchestration by Steve Orich, at “A Capitol Fourth” celebration in Washington DC. Appearing in this fantastic performance were Jarrod Spector as Frankie Valli, Josh Franklin as [...]

A Broadway Rags to Riches Tale: Dan Sullivan, Former Tommy DeVito of Jersey Boys Launches Places, Please!–A Hilarious and Heart-Warming Memoir of the Optimistic Actor TORONTO/NEW YORK, June 29th 2012, Canadian e-publishing house Iguana Books releases Daniel Robert Sullivan’s backstage memoir Places, Please! (Becoming A Jersey Boy) as part of their inaugural list and just [...]

Stephen Hunt of the Calgary Herald has posted a marvelous review of the JERSEY BOYS first national tour in Calgary. Here’s a preview: Nothing says American dream quite like four guys from Jersey who managed to create more than two dozen hit singles, sell 100 million records — and still mess up their lives enough [...]

Matt Bogart, John Lloyd Young, Quinn VanAntwerp, and Andy Karl (Photo Credit: Joan Marcus) Welcome Back, JLY!! From BroadwayWorld.com: ‏Tomorrow, July 3, the Broadway company of JERSEY BOYS will welcome back John Lloyd Young, who created the role of Frankie Valli in the original Broadway company and on the Grammy-winning, platinum cast album. for his [...]

Mike Morrison has posted a rave review of the JERSEY BOYS first national tour in Calgary on “Mike’s Bloggity Blog.” Here’s a sneak peek: The success of Jersey Boys is no fluke. Four Tonys, thousands of performances all around the world and it’s currently being developed into a feature film. But this was the first [...]

By Howard Tucker, Jersey Boys Blog Special Correspondent All of us with the Jersey Boys Blog were so pleasantly surprised by the fan reaction to our recent profile of Mike Backes. Several fans were eager to share what their favorite JERSEY BOYS performers were now doing, and others were curious, but all suggested that we [...]

The JERSEY BOYS first national tour company brought the house down Saturday night in Calgary. During an encore they gave the crowd a special treat by singing “Sweet City Woman” – the official song that celebrates Calgary being a cultural capital this year. The cast was also “white-hatted,” before being welcomed to the city by [...]