Jersey Boys Blog

By Catherine Sanneman and Howard Tucker, JBB Special Correspondents We are all thrilled to learn that Ed Feldman and Tom Barton’s “Tell Me How You Love the Picture,” the audiobook narrated by our own Christian Hoff with his world-record 241 voices, has just been nominated for 2007 Audiobook of the Year by ForeWord Magazine, one [...]

Visit GILG to listen to Part 2 of BBC Radio’s “Jersey Beat: The Four Seasons Story!” Part 2 includes interviews with Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, songwriter Denny Randell, and former 4 Seasons member and arranger Charles Callello. This segment includes some fascinating behind the scenes stories of some of the Seasons’ biggest hits!

Rhino Records has scheduled the Jersey Babys: The Music of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons for Kids CD for release on April 15! As reported earlier by Charles Alexander, it contains new instrumental versions of the Seasons’ biggest hits, from “Sherry” to “December 1963 (Oh, What a Night).” While the arrangements are aimed at [...]

Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording has slipped to No. 3 this week on the Billboard Cast Album chart. The 2007 Grammy Award winner has spent 112 consecutive weeks on this chart and has recently been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Playbill.com reports that Tony Award winners Joe Mantello and Richard Greenberg will reteam for a Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hart’s Pal Joey presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company at Studio 54. Mantello, who earned a Tony Award for his direction of Greenberg’s Take Me Out, will direct the classic musical, which is scheduled to [...]

Baz Bamigboye of the Daily Mail has an exciting Jersey Boys London update: Ryan Molloy, who portrays Frankie Valli in the musical Jersey Boys, which is now in preview at the Prince Edward Theatre. Mr Molloy sings like a dream and accurately conveys Valli’s sense of loyalty spliced with an underlying savviness that has enabled [...]

In Act One of Jersey Boys, before becoming The Four Seasons, the guys are singing background for Bob Crewe’s other artists in the recording studio. Among those singers featured is the Hal Miller character, singing “An Angel Cried” (written by Bob Gaudio). In 1961, Hal Miller and The Rays recorded that song on the Topix [...]

Rhoda Koenig from The Independent notes that while other jukebox musicals have taken the route of hagiography (Buddy) or fantasy (Mamma Mia), Jersey Boys is a little bit different. Instead of using The Four Seasons’ catalogue to illustrate the triumph of talent and persistence, or a fictional romantic romp, Rick Elice and Marshall Brickman fashioned [...]

By Howard Tucker, Jersey Boys Blog Special Correspondent On Saturday, March 1, actor, singer/songwriter, and author Michael McGlone (www.michaelmcglone.com) was a guest of Fantastic Fans Pamela Singer and Howard Tucker for the evening performance of Jersey Boys. The Actor Since his critically acclaimed debut as Patrick in Ed Burns’ masterpiece “The Brothers McMullen.” Michael has [...]

By West Coast Correspondent Cathi Aradi After seven weeks without a Jersey Boys fix, San Francisco fans were thrilled to see the holiday cast come into town in late November. Once again, the show played to sellout crowds, many of whom have seen the show numerous times. The fan base in the City-by-the-Bay is tremendous, [...]

Jersey Boys was only one of two shows on Broadway that remained in the millionaires’ club last week. For the week ending March 2, 2008, the show grossed $1,056,150 and had a 95.2% attendance rate. Grosses in general slipped last week, totaling $14,835,793 for the 32 shows on the boards for the week ending 3/2/08. [...]

Photo courtesy of Audrey Rockman. This is another tough one to report on JB Blog! On her blog today, Jennifer Naimo has announced that she will play her final Jersey Boys performance on Easter Sunday, March 23, 2008. As you all know, Jennifer created the unforgettable role of Mary Delgado at La Jolla Playhouse and [...]

Photos courtesy of Charly O’Clarit, Lucy Rochetti, Audrey Rockman, and Vanessa Shyu. By Howard Tucker, Jersey Boys Blog Special Correspondent Travis treated both Jersey Boys fans and cast members to “The Power of Music” Monday night, derived from the show he headlined on the major cruise lines before joining Jersey Boys. Travis plays “Joe Pesci” [...]

The Sunday edition of the London Times states that it’s time to shine a light on the invisible men. Considering how many hits they accumulated in their prime – they are up there with John, Paul, George, Ringo and Elvis – the Four Seasons are as anonymous as any gang of backroom musicians. Frankie Valli [...]

Kathy Bartsche, an amazing Jersey Boys fan (who has contributed many photographs and Youtubes to JBB) recently emailed me to share her Jersey Boys nesting dolls art project! After my initial response of, “Wow! You did that???” I asked Kathy to share the photos and her inspiration behind this wonderful art project with everyone! By [...]

In case you missed it yesterday or would like to see a repeat performance, check out this video of Frankie Valli on Rachael Ray’s Show!

There’s terrific press coverage of the arrival of Jersey Boys to the West End! Nick Curtis of the Evening Standard has a highly interesting interview with Frankie Valli, 74, and Bob Gaudio, 66, respectively the voice and the songwriter of the Four Seasons! Valli and Gaudio talk about their tough early days, their successes, their [...]

David Cote of the London Times has a marvelous feature about Jersey Boys’ London production at the Prince Edward Theatre. JB depicts four Italian-American youths from the mobbed-up industrial wasteland of New Jersey clawing their way to fame and fortune as the Four Seasons. It’s a jaunty rags-to-riches story with catchy songs such as Beggin’ [...]

TBO.com reports that Jersey Boys national tour cast member Zachary Prince will sing the national anthem before the Tampa Bay Rays’ Grapefruit League home opener today.