Jersey Boys Blog

Playbill.com reports that Daniel Reichard will join Brian Murray and Madeleine Martin in Project Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra at the Players Club on Sept. 22. The 7 PM reading of George Gernard Shaw’s work features Daniel as Apollodorus, Brian Murray (The Crucible) and Madeleine Martin (August: Osage County) as Caesar and Cleopatra, respectively. The company [...]

News from JERSEY BOYS: Matt Bogart will join the Broadway cast of JERSEY BOYS in the role of Nick Massi on Tuesday, September 30. J. Robert Spencer, who originated the role at La Jolla Playhouse and on Broadway, will play his final performance on Sunday, September 14. In the interim, the role of Nick Massi [...]

Left to right: Sal Lalehzar, Howard Tucker, Keith Ferrazzi, Danielle Gaudio Lalehzar, Robin Kimzey (Marketing Director at Accenture). By Howard Tucker, JBB Special Correspondent Thursday, August 28th was another night to remember at the August Wilson Theater as celebrity sightings continue at this ever-magnetic show. Although I myself have sometimes been accused of being a [...]

Jersey Boys’ Broadway box office grosses are still going strong for Jersey Boys! For the last week in August, the show grossed $1,135,723 and had a 100.8% attendance rate. The 24 shows on the boards grossed $17,160,611 for the week ending 8/31/08. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending August [...]

Susan G. Cole of NowToronto.com states that the Jersey Boys’ four central performers take this Tony-winning musical to major heights. The thin story concerns working-class New Jersey guys who rise to the top of the charts in the early 60s as the Four Seasons, pressured by Mob interests and family tensions along the way. Jeremy [...]

Broadway box office grosses still going strong for Jersey Boys! For the week ending August 24, 2008, the show grossed $1,099,592 and had a 100.3% attendance rate. The 25 shows on the boards grossed $17,344,649 for the week ending 8/24/08. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending August 24, 2008. [...]

Jamie Portman of The Ottawa Citizen notes that Jersey Boys is the kind of big-hearted entertainment that demands to be liked. And it has arrived at the Toronto Centre for the Arts armed with some irresistible weaponry — a remarkable catalogue of ’60s songs evoking the era of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, memorably [...]

On August 26, 1978, 30 years ago!–Frankie Valli hit Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart with “Grease,” the theme song from the blockbuster movie. This hit, written by Barry Gibb, remained atop the chart for two consecutive weeks.

Critics and crowds are both giving high praise for Jersey Boys in Toronto! In fact, the show has now been extended through November 9, 2008! Below are excerpts from two of the latest reviews on the big Toronto hit! Mark Andrew Lawrence, BroadwayWorld.com: Jersey Boys is thrilling high-energy entertainment. According to Lawrence, at first glance [...]

On November 22nd, 2008 The Royal Teens of “Short Shorts” fame will be one of the featured artists at the “Doo-Wop Hall of Fame of America” show at Foxwoods Resort and Casino in Ledyard, Connecticut. As you know, the Royal Teens began in 1956 by Bob Gaudio and Tom Austin–and this year, the group is [...]

Sun Media’s John Coulbourn gives the Toronto production of Jersey Boys FIVE stars in his review and states that if you’ve always harbored a secret desire to hang out with the coolest guys in the neighborhood, the wait is over. In fact, the Jersey Boys might just be the coolest guys on the planet — [...]

News from Jersey Boys: The Broadway Jersey Boys will headline a nationally televised event for the opening of the US Open Tennis Tournament on Monday. The JB stars will perform at the Opening Night Ceremony of the 2008 US Open on Monday, August 25 at 7:30pm EST. Check local listings for details.

Theatre Critic Richard Ouzounian gives Jersey Boys in Toronto a four-star review! The Tony Award-winning musical hit opened at the Toronto Centre for the Arts last night to a thunderous standing ovation that easily answered the question “Was this show worth waiting for?” with a resounding “Yes!” The critic says the more time he sees [...]

TheStar.com’s Theatre Critic Richard Ouzounian states that the story of four guys from New Jersey opened last night at the Toronto Centre for the Arts and it has the capacity to change the lives of four guys from Toronto in very important ways. Ever since it debuted on Broadway in the fall of 2005, Jersey [...]

TheStar.com’s Theatre Critic Richard Ouzounian notes that Joseph Leo Bwarie has the choirboy good looks and the crystal-clear falsetto voice, but those aren’t the things that make Joseph Leo Bwarie such great casting as Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys. The singer-actor embraces his Jersey Boys lead role with the same enthusiasm and energy as the [...]

Reporter Paula Citron from GlobeandMail.com notes Sergio Trujillo, the choreographer of the Dancap production, Jersey Boys, can relate to Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, the real-life heroes of the megahit musical that recounts the rags-to-riches tale of four Italian-American kids who became rock ‘n’ roll sensations in the 1960s. Trujillo grew up in a [...]

Post-Tribune Correspondent Terry Loncaric has posted a marvelous interview with Jarrod Spector, who has the difficult task in Jersey Boys of bringing to life the charismatic singer Frankie Valli, who dreamed of being the next Frank Sinatra. After breaking all box office records in New York, a touring production of Jersey Boys will complete its [...]

Mid-August Broadway box office numbers are still solid for Jersey Boys! For the week ending August 17, 2008, the show grossed $1,100,642 and had a 100.8% attendance rate. The 26 shows on the boards grossed $18,623,072 for the week ending 8/17/08. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending August 17, [...]