Jersey Boys Blog

In their latest example of cross-border cooperation, two entertainment industry charities are sharing $32,000 after cast members of the US national touring company of Jersey Boys collected donations from audiences during their stop in Toronto in the last two weeks of November. The Toronto-based Actors’ Fund of Canada and New York-based Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS [...]

The second week of 2009 continued to be strong at the box office for Jersey Boys Broadway. For the week ending January 11, 2009, the show grossed $1,064,072 and had a 98.8% attendance rate. The 23 shows on the boards grossed $15,896,576, down nearly 30% from the previous big holiday week. Below are the Top [...]

Here’s Star 100.7′s video interview with Erik Bates, Joseph Leo Bwarie, Josh Franklin and Steve Gouveia.

Jersey Boys Toronto will be appearing on CTV’s ‘CANADA AM’ Thursday morning, January 15th at 8AM!

Tribune-Review Theater Critic Alice T. Carter says JERSEY BOYS is just too good to be true. It’s a musical with songs you know, love and want to hear again integrated into a story you don’t know, but get caught up in. Rather than drop another quarter into the jukebox to create yet another and-then-we-wrote musical [...]

Check out this amazing performance of the West End JERSEY BOYS on The Alan Titchmarsh Show! Reminder!! Vote for JERSEY BOYS on the WhatsOnStage online ballot form! Voting closes January 31, 2009. Winners will be announced on February 9, 2009!

Jean Horne of the Tribune-Review tells readers to massage the Master Card and run, do not walk, to see the phenomenal production of JERSEY BOYS! Oh, what a night! Dazzling, electrifying, over the moon and the hit songs keep coming in “Jersey Boys” that opened Friday night at the Benedum Center. The rags-to-riches story of [...]

We all already knew that Frankie Valli has the absolute greatest falsetto of all time, right? Well, blogger Mike Brooks has posted his list of Top Ten Falsettos in Pop and Rock History and Frankie tops his list, too! 1. Frankie Valli – Yes, Valli sometimes comes across a bit screechy, but no singer legitimized [...]

The Genesis: Everything Happens for a Reason, or Does It? I was in Ireland on business a few weeks back, but the flights from the New York airports directly to Cork, Ireland were too expensive for my company’s computer, which tracks for the least expensive rates, so my connections to and from were through London. [...]

Michelle Alexandria of Eclipse Magazine said Jersey Boys in Vegas at the Palazzo was the best show she has seen in years! Here’s a preview to her rave review: The show starts off with a bang, it’s some band doing a modernized version of December 1963 – in French. It was hot, my eyes popped [...]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Sharon Eberson states that Bob Gaudio, who wrote the Four Seasons songs that Frankie Valli’s soaring voice helped take to the top of the charts, and Joseph Leo Bwarie, who plays Frankie in the touring company of the Tony-winning “Jersey Boys,” made the same point in separate conversations, using different cultural touchstones. The [...]

The first week of 2009 was a great one for Jersey Boys Broadway! For the week ending January 4, 2009, the show grossed $1,248,236 and had a 101% attendance rate. The 31 shows on the boards also enjoyed a terrific week, grossing $25,690,836. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending [...]

Bruce B. Bigelow from xcomomy.com has an interesting interview with Jersey Boys investor Kevin Kinsella. When asked about the JB investment, the San Diego venture capitalist stated, “The investment in Jersey Boys is certainly among the best I’ve ever made.” Kinsella began his Jersey Boys odyssey on an October evening in 2004 at Barbarella’s, an [...]

Broadway.com’s “First Person” column has a real treat today–the Rick Elice story, from Rick himself! Here’s a sneak peek into this amazing story: When I was at Yale Drama School, nobody was into Broadway musicals. It just wasn’t cool. Everybody was genuflecting at the altar of Chekhov, but working on Broadway was my private dream. [...]

NationalPost.com’s reporter Dave McGinn recently spoke with Jeremy Kushnier about his life in Toronto. Here’s a preview of the interview: From the ‘Peg to Hogtown: I’m originally from Winnipeg, but I moved out to Toronto when I was 18 or 19. Then I moved to New York when I was about 23. When I first [...]

Photo by Joan Marcus JERSEY BOYS, the 2006 Tony-award winning best musical that audiences can’t take their eyes off of, has worked its way to Pittsburgh. Beginning Wednesday, January 7 through February 1, JB national tour will be playing at the Benedum Center. Two Pittsburgh newspapers had the opportunity to talk to JB cast members [...]

Bobby Spencer at Arena Stage stage door with Howard Tucker Right before Christmas, we had the pleasure of seeing Bobby Spencer starring in an amazing piece of theatre—Next to Normal at Arena Stage in Crystal City, Virginia! Not only did the Tech Half and I experience an incredible evening watching Bobby and this outstanding cast, [...]

Following Citytv’s countdown to 2009 and the Happy New Year fanfare, check out the Toronto Jersey Boys’ fantastic rendition of “Auld Lang Syne” (begins at 1:30 on the video)!

Taylor Sternberg will be going on as “Frankie” at today’s matinee performance at the August Wilson Theatre!