Jersey Boys Blog

Critics all over Dallas are adoring Jersey Boys! Below are the latest raves! Elaine Liner, Dallas Observer: A great big Broadway smash called Jersey Boys hits the Music Hall at Fair Park and suddenly everything is all right again. Soaring on tunes about love, youth and yearning, this show flies right to the heart of [...]

Check out Brian Scott Lipton’s Theater.com interview with John Lloyd Young! On August 8, he takes on the role of Marius in a star-studded concert version of Les Miserables at the Hollywood Bowl, alongside Brian Stokes Mitchell, J. Mark McVey, Lea Michele, and Ruth Williamson.TheaterMania spoke with Young before that show’s 10-day rehearsal period about [...]

Jersey Boys Broadway had another solid box office week! For the week ending July 27, 2008, the show grossed $1,129,029 and had a 100.8% attendance rate. The 27 shows on the boards grossed $18,725,752 for the week ending 7/27/08. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending July 27, 2008. Wicked [...]

Here are the latest Chicago Jersey Boys’ appearances: Sunday 8/10/08: Meet the JB cast at Chicago’s Taylor Street Festa Italiana festival in Little Italy from 5:40pm-6:15pm. Check out the festival’s website for the entire schedule. Monday 8/11/08: The Chicago JB cast will be singing the National Anthem at the White Sox game at 7:11pm.

BroadwayWorld.com reports that two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff will direct the first production of Guys and Dolls to open on Broadway in 17 years! It will open in the spring of 2009 at a Nederlander Theatre to be announced. With music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, [...]

According to Fran Spielman of the Chicago Sun-Times, it looks like the Jersey Boys will have to stay off the smokes for quite a while. Here’s the scoop: A City Council committee today deferred action on a plan by downtown Alderman Brendan Reilly to exempt live theater from Chicago’s smoking ban. Reilly asked for the [...]

John Garcia of Pegasus News describes the Dallas Jersey Boys experience as “a hypnotic emotional ride you’ll never want to get off.” Garcia credits everyone for the magic of this show. He states that Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice’s book does a fantastic job of actually making the group’s sensational pop hits weave beautifully into [...]

Within the last year, the 1967 Four Seasons’ hit “Beggin’” (written by Bob Gaudio and Peggy Farina and peaking at #16 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart) has been, well, ubiquitous! First, there was the Pilooski re-edit that hit the London charts, then–the Norwegian rap group Madcon’s rap version of “Beggin’” was a chart-topper for five [...]

The multi-talented Travis Cloer has just completed his new CD “Setting the Standard.” It is a collection of some of the greatest vocal standards from the American Songbook, including “Moody’s Mood for Love,” “On the Street Where You Live,” “I’m Beginning to See the Light,” “In the Still of the Night,” “Cry Me A River,” [...]

For the second consecutive week, Jersey Boys Original Broadway Cast Recording remained in the top position on Billboard’s Top Cast Album chart. This marks the 132nd week that the 2007 Grammy winner has been on this chart.

Following a couple of previews, Jersey Boys opened in Dallas last night at the Fair Park Music Hall and critics are raving about the 2006 Best Musical Tony Award winner! Lawson Taitte in The Dallas Morning News: Talk about a buildup: We are two-thirds of the way through the first act of Jersey Boys before [...]

Playbill.com reports that J. Robert Spencer will star in Arena’s Michael Greif-directed production of the musical Next to Normal, about a family affected by a mother’s mental illness and grief. Bobby will play the father, Dan. It will play November 21, 2008-January 18, 2009 at Arena’s temporary home in Crystal City, Virginia. Congratulations to Bobby [...]

Backstage Las Vegas Prize–Win Three Nights at the Palazzo – Enter Now Through 7/31/2008!! There are some things in Vegas that only a few people are lucky enough to experience. Why not be one of them? Enjoy exclusive VIP tickets to and meet and greet with the cast of Jersey Boys, and Wayne Brady Making [...]

Many of you know JBB Fantastic Fan Mike Magbaleta, who has been a frequent contributor to the Blog and Forum. Well, Mike emailed me about a situation that just occurred early last Friday morning at his twin son’s high school. For some sick reason, an individual or group of persons decided to torch a storage [...]

By Audrey Rockman, Jersey Boys Blog Special Correspondent It is just about time to get the show on the road for the third Old Neighborhood Mini-Bus Tour which explores the homes and haunts of former Four Season members around Jersey. Since there will be a couple of repeat offenders joining the tour for a second [...]

Jersey Boys Broadway continued its strong showing at the box office! For the week ending July 20, 2008, the show grossed $1,150,420 and had a 100.8% attendance rate. The 29 shows on the boards grossed $19,305,800 for the week ending 7/20/08. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending July 20, [...]

Playbill.com reports that John Lloyd Young, in addition to a host of other Broadway favorites — including fellow Tony Award winners Laura Benanti and Cady Huffman will perform at an upcoming concert to benefit the Ross School’s theatre programs. The August 18 event will be held at the Ross School’s Upper Campus in East Hampton, [...]

With Jersey Boys opening in Dallas on Wednesday, Lawson Taitte of Dallas Morning News has an interesting feature on jukebox musicals that includes interviews with Bob Gaudio and Rick Elice. “People don’t realize how hard it is to put a catalog of songs together and make a show work,” says Bob Gaudio, the member of [...]

News from BBB-Blogger: JERSEY BOYS set a worldwide production box office record with the week ending July 21, 2008 at Cleveland ’s PlayhouseSquare Theatre. The Tony and Grammy award winning Best Musical that tells the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, grossed $1,883,450 last week, shattering all records set by the production in [...]