Jersey Boys Blog

Joseph Leo Bwarie (Photo by: Joan Marcus) With the JERSEY BOYS national tour heading to Raleigh next week (June 24-July 18), Bob Geary of Indyweek.com has a preview of the show, which includes a fun interview with Joseph Leo Bwarie! When Geary spoke with Bwarie last week, he said his name rhymes with “Sherry.” Actually, [...]

Broadway Bares 19.0, directed by Peter Gregus, will take place this Sunday at Roseland! Along with Peter, JERSEY BOYS cast members Russell Fischer (Joe Pesci) and Taylor Sternberg (swing/Frankie understudy) will also be part of this amazing event! Here’s what Peter said about this year’s Broadway Bares: We are having a blast putting the show [...]

Ryan Molloy is thanking fans for voting for your favorite Frankie Valli songs for his new album, “Sings Frankie.” You can see if your choices made the album by visiting www.ryanmolloy.com. The album will be released on August 10th. Pre-order your copy now from the shop at www.ryanmolloy.com. “The voice of Ryan Molloy has captured [...]

Erich Bergen and Jeff Leibow with Dennis Hopper at CineVegas From BroadwayWorld.com: In March, Erich Bergen and Jeff Leibow of JERSEY BOYS Las Vegas donated their time to the CineVegas Clubhouse Project by teaching an acting workshop to a group of kids from The Boys and Girls Club of Las Vegas. The workshop was part [...]

Cast members from the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award winning hit musical JERSEY BOYS will perform on PBS-TV’s “A Capitol Fourth” independence day concert celebration on Saturday, July 4 from 8:00pm to 9:30pm ET (check local listings). Jimmy Smits will host “A Capitol Fourth,” which will feature cast members from companies of JERSEY BOYS from [...]

Ticket resale website StubHub has teamed up with hit musical “Jersey Boys” to establish StubHub as the show-approved secondary sales outlet for North American productions of the tuner. StubHub will promote “Jersey” with a marketing push that includes pumped-up visibility on its site, which is also a forum for the resale of tickets to sporting [...]

Entertainment Reporter Andrea Nemetz of The Chronicle Herald has a terrific interview with JERSEY BOYS Toronto’s Frankie Valli, Jeff Madden! Jeff Madden didn’t know that Frankie Valli led a tragic life. Neither do a lot of theatre-goers. That’s part of the magic of Jersey Boys, says Madden, who stars as Valli in the hit musical [...]

Two brand new Jersey Boys Podcast shows have been posted! JB Podcast #68 puts together all of Tommy DeVito’s interviews from Fall 2007 into one single show! JB Podcast #69 includes a quick rundown of the latest news and pointers related to the Jersey Boys national tour. Check them out!

Dan Bacalzo of Theatermania.com reports that Daniel Robert Sullivan will take over the role of Tommy DeVito in the Canadian production of Jersey Boys, at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, beginning today. He replaces Jeremy Kushnier in the part. Sullivan will join a cast that also includes Michael Lomenda as Nick Massi, Jeff Madden [...]

From BroadwayWorld.com: Nevada Public Radio listeners and members have a unique opportunity to support public radio while experiencing Jersey Boys and an exclusive Q&A session with the cast and crew following the performance at The Palazzo on Friday, June 26 at 7 p.m. Five hundred tickets for the June 26 performance – all located in [...]

JERSEY BOYS Broadway ROCKED at the box office for the week ending June 14, 2009. The show grossed $1,155,591 and had a 101.3% attendance rate! The 32 shows on the boards grossed $22,032,497, up almost 10.5% from the previous week. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending June 14, 2009. [...]

Cast members from JERSEY BOYS productions around the US will perform a medley from the show on PBS’ “A Capitol Fourth” live from the US Capitol on Saturday, July 4 at 8pm Eastern (check local listings for times).

For the second straight week, JERSEY BOYS Original Cast Recording stayed in the Number Two position on the Billboard Top Cast Albums chart. This marks the 178th consecutive week that the Grammy Award-winner has been on the chart.

You can now vote for JERSEY BOYS to win the Audience Choice Award for Outstanding Production. Visit http://www.nowtoronto.com/dora to choose JERSEY BOYS, and scroll down to complete and submit your vote today through June 25 at 11:00 p.m.

Melbourne Jersey Boys from left: Glaston Toft (Nick Massi), Bobby Fox (Frankie Valli), Stephen Mahy (Bob Gaudio) and Scott Johnson (Tommy DeVito). Photo: Simon Schluter Melissa Kent of The Age has an in-depth feature on JERSEY BOYS in Melbourne, with thoughts from production supervisor Richard Hester and the actors who will be playing The Four [...]

In the Milpitas Post, W. Fred Crow has a story on Courter Simmons, who hit the high notes as Frankie Valli on last Sunday’s Tony Awards telecast. Here’s a preview of the story: Sunday, during the 2009 Tony Awards, you heard him croon a solo from Frankie Valli’s iconic hit, “Can’t Take My Eyes Off [...]

(Photo credit: Joan Marcus) Philip Potempa of NWI.com has posted a terrific feature on Chicago JERSEY BOYS newcomers–Michael Cunio (Tommy DeVito), Dominic Scaglione, Jr. (Frankie Valli), and Shonn Wiley (Bob Gaudio), who have joined veteran cast member Michael Ingersoll who portrays Nick Massi. For Shonn Wiley, being cast as songwriter Gaudio, the youngest member of [...]

Leslie Goddard, Carly Thomas, and Lauren Tartaglia (Photo by John Gurzinski) Yes, the Vegas Jersey Girls are cover girls in this week’s edition of the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s “Neon”! Mike Weatherford has a fabulous interview with Leslie Goddard (Francine & others), Lauren Tartaglia (Mary Delgado & others), and Carly Thomas (Lorraine & Others), along with [...]

Erich Bergen, Deven May, Rick Faugno, Travis Cloer, and Jeff Leibow (Photo Credit: VegasDeluxe.com)