Jersey Boys Blog

For the second consecutive week, the Grammy-winning JERSEY BOYS Original Broadway Cast Recording tops the Billboard Top Cast Album chart. This marks the 183rd week that the RIAA Certified Gold recording has remained on the chart.

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News from JERSEY BOYS Broadway: Cast members from Jersey Boys Broadway will be performing as part of Bryant Park’s free lunch time concert series, “Broadway in Bryant Park.” The cast is set to perform at 12:30pm on Thursday, July 30 so bring your lunch, sit back, relax and enjoy hits from the Grammy Award Winning [...]

Here’s a preview of the latest thumbs-up review of JERSEY BOYS in Melbourne by Geoff Cumming in the New Zealand Herald: Just don’t call it a musical, Bob Gaudio says insistently. Then he sits forward, fixes his gaze on a hapless Melbourne radio hack, and adds with Tony Soprano-like conviction: “It’s a drama with music.” [...]

JB National Tour’s Four Seasons: Steve Gouveia, Joseph Leo Bwarie, Josh Franklin, and Matt Bailey (Photo Credit: Joan Marcus) Jody Feinberg of The Patriot Ledger notes that the JERSEY BOYS national tour will be running from July 23 through September 26 at Boston’s Citi Performing Arts Center’s Shubert Theatre! Feinberg recently spoke with Joseph Leo [...]

Katherine Miller of Newsobserver.com states that Despite the bleak economy, business is brisk at the Progress Energy Center Memorial Hall box office as fans snap up tickets for “Jersey Boys.” The musical based on the rise of the Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons has sold more than 50,000 tickets. About 70 percent of the [...]

Jersey Boys Blog in Chicago–It could happen; it did happen! The spectacular show (wait till you hear details!); the backstage tour; upcoming JBB Fantastic Fan Interviews; and the phenomenal JBB EXCLUSIVE Interviews with Stage Manager Larry Baker and cast members Jared Bradshaw, John Michael Coppola, Michael Cunio, John Michael Dias, Steven M. Goldsmith, Merissa Haddad, [...]

JERSEY BOYS Broadway had a terrific summer week at the box office! Last week, the show grossed $1,151,026 and had a 101.2% attendance rate for the week ending July 12, 2009. The 24 shows on the boards grossed $20,084,193, up over 6.6% from the previous week. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for [...]

Rave reviews for JERSEY BOYS Melbourne are ubiquitous! Here are the latest: TheDramaTeacher.com: Jersey Boys recently opened at Melbourne’s Princess Theatre to thundering applause. Bobby Fox is fabulous as Frankie Valli, with a falsetto voice that will make you close your eyes and imagine you were there (or sing along in the audience just a [...]

From BroadwayWorld.com: Rick Faugno, who was named “Best Singer” by the Las Vegas Review-Journal staff in this year’s “Best of Las Vegas” poll based on his current role as Frankie Valli in JERSEY BOYS, will debut his first-ever solo performance for an afternoon of “Songs My Idols Sang (And Danced)” on Sunday, Aug, 23, at [...]

From Norm Clarke in the Las Vegas Review-Journal: Erich Bergen is planning a Michael Jackson benefit concert to be held August 29th at the Palms, on what would have been Jackson’s 51st birthday. Erich is co-producing the event with local writer/blogger Steve Friess of VegasHappensHere.com. All proceeds will go to the VH1 Save The Music [...]

Sebastian Arcelus From Broadway.com: Sebastian Arcelus will return to the role of Bob Gaudio in the Broadway cast of JERSEY BOYS. Arcelus, who was most recently seen in the Lincoln Theater Center production of Happiness, will replace Andrew Rannells on July 14 at the August Wilson Theatre. Welcome back to Sebastian!

Last night’s show? MAGICAL!! Stay tuned for continuing coverage!!

The show might be called Jersey Boys, but the lead actor is an Oakville man. Jeff Madden stars as Frankie Valli in the Toronto production of the hit show. Oakville Beaver reporter Tina Depko recently talked to Jeff Madden about the role of a lifetime, playing Frankie Valli in JERSEY BOYS! The 34-year-old sings his [...]

Cameron Woodhead of The Age states that Australian musical theatre fans have been treated to superlative productions of recent Broadway blockbusters. You can add JERSEY BOYS to the list. It’s a show packed with energy and talent and songs that make you want to dance in your seat. Each of the original band members — [...]

Theatre critic Caroline Wilson states that the story of 60’s pop sensations Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Jersey Boys is slick, slick, slick! It moves at a cracking pace, barely pausing for breath, so at times it can be hard to keep up and engage with the characters. Bursting with myriad hits, such as [...]

JERSEY BOYS Broadway stayed strong at the box office last week! The show grossed $1,101,363 and had a 99.4% attendance rate for the week ending July 5, 2009. The 24 shows on the boards grossed $18,757,118, down nearly eight percent from the previous week. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week [...]

Broadway.com reports that nobody knows Jersey Boys better than Dominic Nolfi, who played three of the Four Seasons as an understudy before being tapped to replace Tony winner Christian Hoff in the leading role of Tommy DeVito. A native of San Francisco, Nolfi began studying voice in the youth program at San Francisco Conservatory, then [...]

According to Bryce Ives, JERSEY BOYS Australia has every element of an absolute hit. The show is high energy, high impact and high drama. It’s also quite conveniently full of songs we know and love: the music of Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons. ‘Crisp’ is a word that keeps coming to mind: the overall [...]