By Pamela Singer, JBB Special Correspondent Listen carefully, friends. That’s the collective sigh of Jersey Boys fans’ hearts as Dominic Nolfi gets ready to end his incredible seven-year ride with the show on September 25th. One of the most talented and versatile “Boys” to ever grace a stage, Dom has been electrifying audiences as Tommy [...]
(more...)For the third week in September, JERSEY BOYS Broadway grossed $982,489 and had a 95.1% attendance rate. The 20 shows on the boards grossed $16,009,583, climbing almost 13% from the previous week’s totals. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending September 18, 2011. Wicked $1,479,369 The Lion King $1,414,948 The [...]
(more...)From BroadwayWorld.com: JERSEY BOYS Las Vegas will take their moves from the stage to the runway in an interactive fashion show event to benefit HELP of Southern Nevada on Sunday, October 2 on the runway at Fashion Show. The event will consist of a clothing drive, fashion show, prize raffle and exclusive meet and greet [...]
(more...)Cathy Nelson Price has a fabulous feature with JERSEY BOYS national tour swing cast member Buck Hujabre. Check out this preview: Life on the road, a young family he’d do anything to stay close to, and earning his living as a singer-musician-actor — he may be an ex-LSU Tiger, but at heart as well as [...]
(more...)It was great to catch up recently with former JERSEY BOYS Las Vegas swing cast member Colin Trahan, who shared some exciting news with Jersey Boys Blog! JBB: Hey, Colin, Congratulations are in order! Tell us about your television debut on ‘General Hospital’! Colin Trahan: Thank you! Well, I’ll be playing ‘Cole,’ a ‘henchman,’ as [...]
(more...)The rave reviews keep popping up all over Omaha for the JERSEY BOYS national tour production! Check out sneak peeks below: Bob Fischbach, The Omaha World-Herald: “So here’s the thing about JERSEY BOYS. Whether you’re old enough to remember the hit tunes when they hit or not, the music is gonna get you. Forty-five minutes [...]
(more...)In honor of original Four Seasons’ bass guitarist, bass singer, and vocal arranger Nick Massi’s birthday, we wanted to share a rare 1964 fantastic concert recording of him singing lead on “Close Your Eyes.”
(more...)Another fantastic JERSEY BOYS review in Omaha! This one comes from Analisa Swerczek of BroadwayWorld.com. Check out the preview: The staging of the musical numbers is simple and classy, giving way to the music and letting the talent of the performers shine through and carry the numbers – which they do brilliantly! Joseph Leo Bwarie [...]
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(more...)For the second week in September, JERSEY BOYS Broadway grossed $806,153 and had a 81.5% attendance rate. The 23 shows on the boards grossed $14,305,212, dropping over 19.5% from the previous week’s totals. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending September 11, 2011. The Lion King $1,299,169 The Book Of [...]
(more...)The first single Tommy DeVito, Bob Gaudio, Nick Massi, and Frankie Valli released under the new name “The Four Seasons” was not “Sherry,” the song that topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for five weeks back in 1962. Their first single was actually “Bermuda,” a song that the group released back in 1961 on George [...]
(more...)Bob Gaudio Found this fabulous archive online! John Gilliland’s “The Pop Chronicles†traces the history of popular music from the 1950’s through the 1960’s. Mr. Gilliland wrote, narrated and produced these 55 hours of broadcasting first airing at KRLA in Pasadena in February 1969. On Track 3, The Four Seasons (Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, Joe [...]
(more...)Forty-nine years ago today, The Four Seasons’ had their first chart-topping hit, “Sherry”! The song remained in the Number One position for five consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. As we know from JERSEY BOYS, Bob Gaudio says, “Two takes on a Sunday afternoon. And then the whole world exploded” Here’s the rest [...]
(more...)(Photo Credits: #1: Totorelief.com; #2: Joan Marcus) From Broadway.com: Broadway favorite Andy Karl and Jersey Boys tour vet Quinn VanAntwerp have been tapped to star as Tommy DeVito and Bob Gaudio, respectively, in the Broadway company of Jersey Boys, beginning October 11. The show is headed toward its sixth anniversary at the August Wilson Theatre, [...]
(more...)From BroadwayWorld.com: JERSEY BOYS – The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, which opened September, 2010 at Sydney’s Theatre Royal will be one of the longest running musicals in the history of the venue, breaking the Theatre Royal’s weekly Box Office records as the highest grossing in the theatre’s history. Since opening in [...]
(more...)As recently reported, Santa Claus will be making a very special delivery to Jersey Boys and Four Seasons’ fans across the globe earlier than usual this year! On October 4, Rhino will release SEASON’S GREETINGS: A JERSEY BOYS CHRISTMAS! The Jersey Boys Christmas album hit the “trifecta,” to quote Tommy DeVito, with three Grammy Award-winning [...]
(more...)From Don411.com: The Columbus premiere of the Tony, Grammy, and Olivier Award-winning hit musical Jersey Boys entertained more than 50,000 patrons over its recent three-week engagement at the Ohio Theatre, generating an estimated $14 million in economic impact for the city of Columbus. “The entire community benefits when Jersey Boys tours,” said Bill Conner, President [...]
(more...)Las Vegas Review-Journal entertainment reporter Mike Weatherford talks about the 10-year “tragicomic” history of failure for the 1,200-seat theatre in the Paris Hotel & Casino. Over the past decade, a number of shows have come & gone including “We Will Rock You,” “The Producers,” and most recently veteran entertainer Barry Manilow, who only plays under [...]
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