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Exciting news to share with JERSEY BOYS BLOG readers! Another Season, The Memoirs of Charlie Calello is a firsthand, backstage eye witness account of his experiences while writing hit music arrangements for the Four Seasons. Writing the arrangements for songs like Walk Like a Man, My Eyes Adored You, Candy Girl, Dawn, Let’s Hang On, [...]

The legendary original Four Seasons member Tommy DeVito is celebrating his 90th birthday today! Please join us in wishing Tommy a very happy 90th today!

Today marks 17 years since the amazingly talented bass singer, bass player, and vocal arranger of The Four Seasons, Nick Massi, passed away. To quote Frankie Valli in JERSEY BOYS, “For a Catholic, is that style or what?” In honor of Nick, enjoy this awesome recording of “Close Your Eyes” from a 1964 concert. Nicky, [...]

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Let’s go back to 12 years ago–when it was all still ahead of us (and them, of course) when JERSEY BOYS OBC performed on the 2005 edition of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Please join us in wishing musical genius extraordinaire Bob Gaudio a very happy 76th birthday today! Sir, none of this joy we have experienced over the last six decades couldn’t have happened without YOU! Thank you for sharing your brilliant musical gifts with the world!

Please join us in wishing the amazingly talented creative genius Rick Elice a very Happy Birthday today! Words cannot express how grateful we are to Rick–not only for sharing his glorious writing and innovations on the stage, but for his wonderful kindness, support and friendship to the JERSEY BOYS family of fans! Looking so forward [...]

As you all know, JERSEY BOYS is heading Off-Broadway, with performances set to begin November 22 at New World Stages. Click HERE to check out the marvelous Playbill.com video featuring Aaron De Jesus as Frankie Valli, Nicolas Dromard as Tommy DeVito, Mark Edwards as Nick Massi, and Cory Jeacoma as Bob Gaudio.

Today would have been the late great songwriter and producer Bob Crewe’s 87th birthday. Let’s do a video photo flashback in honor of this musical guru’s birthday!

Enjoy this JERSEY BOYS OBC as we think back to the magical opening night on Broadway–November 6, 2005!

Back in 1966, Frankie Valli released a fantastic solo recording–”You’re Ready Now,” written by Bob Gaudio and Bob Crewe. Although the song missed the charts in the US, it became a surprise hit in the UK as part of the Northern soul scene when it was released in December 1970 and peaked at #11 on [...]

(Photo Credit: David Cace) It’s hard to believe that it was TEN YEARS ago this evening when many of us came together to enjoy one of the most memorable evenings–EVER–as we attended the BC/EFA fundraiser at the Broadway Lounge at the Marriott Marquis Hotel! Tony Award winners John Lloyd Young and Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard [...]

It is with sadness that Jersey Boys Blog has to share the news to our readers that Judy Parker Gaudio, writer of Billboard chart-topping songs and Broadway hits, and wife of Bob Gaudio, has passed away peacefully from respiratory complications on Thursday, September 14, 2017. Among her most well-known songs are “December, 1963 (Oh, What [...]

Musical genius Bob Gaudio wrote this song in 15 minutes! Today marks the 55th anniversary: September 15, 1962 when SHERRY by The Four Seasons had their first #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart!

Breaking news about JERSEY BOYS was ubiquitous today–with the announcement that the Tony-Award winning Broadway musical is coming back! In November, JERSEY BOYS will begin playing an open-ended run Off-Broadway, at New World Stages in Midtown Manhattan! The production will have the same script and score as the Broadway production, but four fewer cast members, [...]

Fantastic performance from Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons on the 2014 edition of A Capitol Fourth on PBS!!

A select group of Jersey Boys from casts across America, with a new orchestration by Steve Orich, perform a medley of hits from the show in a Fourth of July celebration in Washington DC in 2009. Appearing in this performance are Jarrod Spector as Frankie Valli, Josh Franklin as Bob Gaudio, Michael Ingersoll as Nick [...]

Please join us in wishing the one and only original Jersey Boy & founding member of The Four Seasons–Tommy DeVito a very happy 89th birthday today!

This flashback never gets old, does it?! Enjoy the 2006 Tony Awards performance of the JERSEY BOYS OBC before their big Best Musical win!

An evening we’ll never forget: Five different fantastic Frankie Valli’s perform a medley from JERSEY BOYS, along with the phenonmenal Broadway cast, at the 2009 Tony Awards. The five Frankies are Joseph Leo Bwarie, Rick Faugno, Courter Simmons, Dominic Scaglione, Jr., and Jarrod Spector.