Jersey Boys Blog

Jeff Leibow, Rick Faugno, Mario Lopez, Deven May, and Erich Bergen (Photo Credit: BroadwayWorld.com) BroadwayWorld.com reports that on Friday, January 23, Mario Lopez, the current host of “Extra!” and the Miss America Pageant, attended a performance of Jersey Boys at The Palazzo Resort-Hotel-Casino. Lopez was in town with family and stopped backstage after the show [...]

Mark Andrew Lawrence of BroadwayWorld.com notes that the roar you hear every night at around 10:30 is not the wind. It’s the crowds cheering the new Canadian cast of JERSEY BOYS at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. This Tony-award winning musical sent its touring cast here last August but demand was so great that [...]

News from BroadwayWorld.com: La Jolla Playhouse welcomes back Rick Elice, co-writer of the Tony Award-winning Jersey Boys, as the playwright of Peter and the Starcatchers. Alex Timbers and Roger Rees are set to direct with choreography by Kelly Devine and music by Wayne Barker. Peter and the Starcatchers will be playing at the Sheila and [...]

JERSEY BOYS Broadway had the highest attendance rate at the box office last week–98.6%! The show grossed $1,039,863 for the week ending January 18, 2009. The 21 shows on the boards grossed $13,882,638, up over 2% from the previous week. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending January 18, 2009. [...]

If you haven’t done so yet, you can still vote for JERSEY BOYS London for the 2009 Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers’ Choice Awards in the following categories: The SEE TICKETS Best Actor in a Musical: Ryan Molloy – Jersey Boys at the Prince Edward Best Supporting Actor in a Musical: Stephen Ashfield – Jersey Boys at the [...]

Merissa Haddad Richard Duckett has a great feature on JERSEY BOYS Chicago’s Mary Delgado, Merissa Haddad! According to Duckett, Haddad had not originally moved West to pursue an acting career. Rather, she was a physical therapist working with children with special needs. However, a longstanding interest in theater had been nurtured from her days at [...]

Visit WGNTV.com to watch the entire phenomenal JERSEY BOYS Chicago cast perform on The Morning Show!

The ‘Jersey Boys’ cast features, from left, Quinn VanAntwerp, Jeff Madden, Jeremy Kushnier and Michael Lomenda (Photo: Brian Summers). Critics are raving about the new Toronto JERSEY BOYS cast! Here’s a preview of the latest reviews: Richard Ouzounian, The Star.com: Ouzounian gives the BOYS 4 out of 4 stars! In fact, the critic states that [...]

While searching YouTube for Jersey Boys and Four Seasons videos, I found a real treat–singer Sam Moffatt’s fantastic rendition of “Cry for Me”! Check it out! When I contacted Sam for his permission to post the video to JBB, I asked him to tell us a bit about himself and what inspired him to record [...]

From Globe and Mail.com: Two seasons on, JERSEY BOYS is still packing them in at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. The musical’s national touring company departed for Pittsburgh last month and a mostly Canadian cast has now settled in – an occasion to revisit this fun, energizing show. Des McAnuff’s well-greased production continues to [...]

Photos by MKI at BroadwayWorld.com. The Chicago company of Jersey Boys will place a new block of tickets on-sale to the public Friday, January 23 at 10 a.m. for performances April 14 – July 12, 2009. Tickets are available at all Broadway In Chicago Box Offices (24 W. Randolph St., 151 W. Randolph St. and [...]

Playbill.com reports that two former JERSEY BOYS cast members, Chistopher Kale Jones and Daniel Reichard are among the actors nominated for the fourth annual Kevin Kline Awards, which honor the best of St. Louis theatre. Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical: Christopher Kale Jones (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Stages St. Louis) Outstanding Supporting [...]

(Photo: Stan Behal/Sun Media) Toronto Sun Columnist John Coulbourn has an in-depth interview with Toronto’s Tommy DeVito–Jeremy Kushnier! According to Coulbourn, Kushnier is a Jersey boy through and through. Which is kind of strange, when you think about it, considering that Kushnier got his start in Winnipeg. Yet, as anyone who has caught Kushnier’s performance [...]

Many JERSEY BOYS cast members all over the map have been doing a great job keeping everyone posted on their blogs! Jersey Boys Toronto’s “Frankie” Jeff Madden’s “Taking the Wheel” blog is giving everyone an inside look into the Toronto JB experience! Some of my favorite posts include How I Got to Jersey, You want [...]

(Photo: NationalPost.com) In her Business, News & People column, Diane Francis has a feature on Aubrey Dan, a promising impresario who bought a small piece of Broadway smash “Jersey Boys” and brought it to Toronto for a sell-out run which is attracting 10,000 people a week. Francis notes that she has seen both productions and [...]

We’ve said it all along–JERZY BOYZ are ubiquitous! And, no, Spell Check didn’t miss that! This time, I mean JERZY BOYZ with a “Z”–the fruit farmers with the absolutely best apples and pears you’ll EVER taste! The New Year started out on a healthy note for us this year, with an absolutely enormous and wonderful [...]

We would like to send Happy Birthday greetings to Broadway’s matinee “Frankie”–the amazingly talented Dominic Scaglione, Jr.! Dominic Scaglione, Jr. with mom, Kathy and sister, Christina (Photo courtesy of Audrey Rockman).

Brad Hundt of the Observer-Reporter raves about the Pittsburgh production of JERSEY BOYS! According to Hundt, “Jersey Boys” could be boiled down to a simple equation. Take the no-bull New Jersey swagger of “The Sopranos,” and add the Kennedy-era fashions of “Mad Men” and the rags-to-riches-to-rags storytelling of VH1′s “Behind the Music,” and you get [...]

From SuburbanChicagoNews.com: The Arcada Theatre will welcome the four stars of the hit musical “Jersey Boys” and other celebs at 6 p.m. Jan. 18. The event will benefit the Arcada Theatre Renovations Fund. The benefit will feature a wine and cheese reception on the main stage along with a behind-the-scenes experience with the actors as [...]