Jersey Boys Blog

By Audrey Rockman In less than week, there will be the long awaited Street Naming in honor of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame group, The Four Seasons on Wednesday, June 25 at 1:30 in Union, NJ. The event will be held at Costco’s on West Chestnut Street, the site of the Bowling Lanes [...]

News about the Jersey Babys CD! Along with Amazon.com and Rhino, the “Jersey Babys” CD is now available in Barnes and Noble, Best Buy and Virgin Records and FYE and J & R records! Reviewers are also taking note of this marvelous CD! In the 6/7/08 edition of the New York Post, Charlie Heller reviewed [...]

Jersey Boys Broadway remained strong at the box office! For the week ending June 15, 2008, JB grossed $1,139,296 and had the highest attendance rate of all shows at 100.6%! The 34 shows on the boards grossed $19,059,102 for the week ending 6/15/08, up over 4% from the previous week. Below are the Top 10 [...]

Photo #1: ChristopherKaleJones.com, Photos #2-3: by Joan Marcus, Photo #4: JBB. On Sunday, June 15, the incredible Christopher Kale Jones played his final performance as Frankie Valli in the Jersey Boys national tour. Watching Chris’s phenomenal performance that first time at the Curran Theatre back in December 2006 was one of the most amazing and [...]

John Patrick Gatta of The Morning Journal has a preview story about Jersey Boys coming to the Playhouse Square Center’s State Theatre in Cleveland. Gatta spoke with Andrew Rannells, who plays Bob Gaudio in the JB national tour. Here’s a sneak peek of what Andrew has to say about playing the legendary songwriter: Now, that [...]

Plain Dealer Theater Critic Tony Brown fills everyone in on the real story behind The Four Seasons’ arrest in Cleveland. Here’s the real story: On Sept. 6, 1965, a Labor Day Monday, The Four Seasons played a variety show hosted at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus by TV personality Mike Douglas. Columbus cops arrested [...]

Cleveland is getting ready for Jersey Boys, which begins at Playhouse Square on Wednesday! Cleveland.com’s John Soebel has a terrific feature on the distinctive sound of The Four Seasons. Soebel’s introduction to The Four Seasons was a television commercial for a best-of compilation. Against a montage of performance clips, a list of song titles scrolled [...]

It’s hard to believe that it’s been over two years since we were all celebrating Jersey Boys’ EIGHT Tony Award nominations! Jersey Boys’ Tony Award Nominations Best Musical Best Book of a Musical–Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical–John Lloyd Young Best Performance by a Featured Actor in [...]

Jersey Boys national tour plays the Playhouse Square in Cleveland from Wednesday June 18 through July 20! John Benson of The Gazette recently spoke to JB co-writer Rick Elice about the blockbuster musical. Why is Rick Elice excited about Jersey Boys’ Cleveland debut? According to Elice: In a way, The Four Seasons is like a [...]

Tony Brown, Cleveland Plain Dealer Theater Critic states, “Oh, what a night — the night Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons got busted in Cleveland.” But did it really happen the way the hit Broadway show “Jersey Boys,” which tells the story of the Four Seasons, says it did? Fuhgettaboudit. The night in question is [...]

Photos courtesy of Danielle Gaudio-Lalehzar. Jersey Boys fans Howard Tucker, Pam Singer and Crez Capece attended Dr. David Younger’s Jersey Boys-themed Neurology Research Foundation fundraiser celebrating the NYU Lyme Disease Center. The evening raised money to support Lyme disease research. Joe Piscopo was great entertainment for the evening and some of the live auction items [...]

BroadwayWorld.com reports that the Bachmann-Strauss Dystonia & Parkinson Foundation will hold its 16th Annual Golf Invitational on Monday, June 16. The event will raise funds for research that will bring greater insight into dystonia and Parkinson’s disease, two devastating movement disorders affecting more than 1.5 million Americans. More than 300 golfers and 70 pros will [...]

Entertainment Reporter Bruce DeMara of the Toronto Star spent some time talking with Frankie Valli and Rick Elice, who were in town yesterday to promote the first major Canadian production of Jersey Boys, at the Toronto Centre for the Arts from Aug. 21 to Oct. 5, presented by Dancap Productions. The Tony Award-winning musical, which [...]

Bexley Times reviewer Marina Soteriou raves about Jersey Boys; however, she needs a refresher course in The Four Seasons vs. The Four Tops! She begins by telling readers that Jersey Boys tells the story of one of pop’s most successful bands, Frankie Valli and the Four Tops. Then, she ends the review by stating “but [...]

Theatermania.com reports that Jeremy Kushnier has spent many months touring the country as Tommy DeVito in the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys, which tells the true story behind the legendary musical group The Four Seasons. But even he admits that the audiences in Las Vegas, where a somewhat revised version of the show is playing [...]

BroadwayWorld.com reports that the Chicago Jersey Boys will be performing in the BROADWAY IN CHICAGO CONCERT IN THE PARK, a fantastic, free event featuring Broadway’s hottest shows during the city’s legendary Taste of Chicago festival. The BROADWAY IN CHICAGO CONCERT IN THE PARK will be held at the Petrillo Music Shell in Grant Park Monday, [...]

Jersey Boys Broadway had another strong week at the box office! For the week ending June 8, 2008, JB grossed $1,158,688 and had the highest attendance rate of all shows at 100.6%! As with the previous week,Jersey Boys was one of only three shows that was in the millionaires’ club! The 34 shows on the [...]

By Lauren Avila, Jersey Boys Blog Special Correspondent She captured our hearts as Frankie’s girlfriend, Lorraine, along with many other characters. Unfortunately, now the time’s come for Lauren Marshall “to get off the merry-go-round.” As a powerful singer, Lauren thrilled audiences with exciting numbers such as “Ces Soirees-La,” “My Boyfriend’s Back,” and “Who Loves You.” [...]