More great reviews for JB in Minneapolis! From TalkinBroadway.com: The story – which is pretty typical showbiz – does a better job than most jukebox musicals of connecting the dots, and the characters remain wonderfully down to earth throughout the fame and heartbreak. While it does play a bit loose with reality (Bob Crewe is [...]
(more...)Check out Jennifer Naimo’s blog for wonderful photo coverage of the Jersey Boys’ 1,000th Broadway performance celebration that was held at the Palm Restaurant!
(more...)Tatiana Craine of the Mac Weekly can’t quit thinking about Jersey Boys after seeing the national tour in Minneapolis! For the past three days, one word has been forever recurrent in my mind: Sherry. Silly girl, you say. But don’t try to kid yourself. You wouldn’t be able to shield yourself against the angelic, high-toned [...]
(more...)The Minnesota Twins have announced that the Jersey Boys national tour cast will sing the National Anthem at the Twins’ opening night game celebration on Monday, March 31. The game is scheduled to begin at 6:05PM.
(more...)Thank you to a West End fan for providing us with these fabulous photos of taxicabs promoting Jersey Boys on the streets of London!
(more...)Jersey Boys Blog is excited to feature the artwork of Tom Austin, who was a member of The Royal Teens. The Fieldstone Fine Art Gallery (147 E. Main Street in Ramsey, NJ) is currently presenting an exhibition of Tom’s beautiful artwork through April 30. Additionally, within the next couple of days, we are thrilled to [...]
(more...)Visit WCCO to listen to Zachary Prince and Steve Gouveia’s interview with Don Shelby that was recorded on March 18!
(more...)Matthew Amer, reporter for the Official London Theatre Guide, states Des McAnuff is no stranger to success. He has twice won the Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical, for The Who’s Tommy and Big River, and seen the success translate to London, winning the Best Director Laurence Olivier Award for Tommy in 1997. [...]
(more...)Along with rocking the house at the Orpheum, the Jersey Boys national tour will be doing a BC/EFA benefit concert in Minneapolis on Monday, April 7, 2008! Event: Jersey Boys National Tour “Rock Like A Man” BC/EFA Benefit Concert Where: The Shout House at 650 Hennepin Aveue When: Monday, April 7, 2008 at 7:30PM (Doors [...]
(more...)The UK press has done overtime on Jersey Boys reviews! Below are this week’s latest: International Herald Tribune: …its scintillating stagecraft offers an object lesson in musical staging. Using the various levels of Klara Zieglerova’s set, pop art iconography helping to swiftly set the period, McAnuff keeps the four members of the group in a [...]
(more...)Visit Broadway.com for Bruce Gilkas’ photo coverage of Jersey Boys celebration of their 1,000th performance at the Palm Restaurant! Along with the cast members, you’ll see photos of the JB band, writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, actors Stephanie Block and Roger Rees, and the real Bob Gaudio and his wife Judy. Congratulations to Jersey [...]
(more...)Jersey Boys had a great “spring break” week at the Broadway box office! For the week ending March 23, 2008, the show grossed $1,116,266 and had a 100.7% attendance rate. The 30 shows on the boards grossed $20,789,933 for the week ending 3/23/08, climbing over 15% from the previous week’s totals. Below are the Top [...]
(more...)Broadway.com’s Matt Wolf has some interesting details about Ryan Molloy, who plays Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys’ London cast! The actor talks about his background, what it’s like to play the legendary Frankie Valli in JB, the audience’s reaction to the show, his vocal chops, the differences between the West End and the Broadway show, [...]
(more...)Tomorrow MONDAY MARCH 24th Daniel Reichard will be singing at Barnes and Noble at Lincoln Center for a promotional/educational event for CANDIDE. It starts at 7:30. It will feature myself, Lauren Wersham, and Jamie Bernstein (Leonard Bernstein’s daughter), singing a few songs from the show and discussing the show’s history. From April 8th to April [...]
(more...)Playbill.com’s Sheryl Flatow has a marvelous profile on Christopher Kale Jones, who has been wowing! audiences as Frankie Valli in the national tour of Jersey Boys since it began in December 2006. Here is a sample of the kinds of reviews Christopher Kale Jones has received for his portrayal of Frankie Valli in the first [...]
(more...)In The Observer today, Kathryn Flett, who is the daughter of Doug Flett, co-writer of Frankie Valli’s “Fallen Angel” in 1976, reflects on her father and the song that has found itself on center stage in Jersey Boys. I don’t really do theatre, but last week I was my father’s date for the first night [...]
(more...)The latest reviews from London in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and The Independent. Susannah Clapp, The Guardian: What’s more, it’s got a sharp book, and a far from weedy rags-to-riches story. Together with director Des McAnuff, Marshall Brickman (who collaborated with Woody Allen on Annie Hall) and Rick Elice have come up with a [...]
(more...)Telegraph’s Roya Nikkhah states that the musical Jersey Boys has made Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons the toast of the West End, winning them rave reviews and standing ovations. Yet the pop stars whose appeal in the Fifties and Sixties was their clean-cut image had links to the Mob, who helped them in their [...]
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