Jersey Boys Blog

Jersey Boys national tour cast member Taylor Sternberg reports that he has “heard the call”! With Eric Gutman leaving the national tour to go to Broadway, Taylor will now be taking over as the “tour” blogger. Check out his Tour THAT blog!

For the 28th time, Jersey Boys broke the August Wilson Theatre house record for the grossing $1,367,780 (and a 100.7% attendance rate) for the week ending December 9, 2007! Total grosses for the week were $19,709,595 for the 34 shows on the boards for the week ending 12/09/07. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from [...]

In an article on KHNL.com, reporter Leland Kim noted that more than 180,000 people saw The Lion King at the Neal Blaisdell Center. It grossed close to $15 million, and pumped $45 million to the local economy. Mayor Mufi Hannemann said The Lion King’s success shows Hawaii can host a major Broadway musical. “Certainly this [...]

SeattlePI.com Theater Joe Adcock states that Jersey Boys is a perfect stage musical! Energetic performers belt out the songs. Christopher Kale Jones plays Frankie Valli, the lead singer with the amazing falsetto. Erich Bergen, Steve Gouveia and Deven May play the rest of the sometimes harmonious and sometimes unruly quartet. A versatile cast of secondary [...]

Jersey Boys, more than anything, feels like the Tony Award-winning “Behind the Music” musical. This one happens to be about The Four Seasons. When four blue-collar kids dodge prison to form a white doo wop band, meet up with producer Bob Crewe, and sell 175 million records worldwide before they’re 30, the announcer in your [...]

Seattle Times theater critic Misha Berson notes that for anyone with a broad appreciation of rock ‘n’ roll Americana, the Broadway show Jersey Boys is more than a vastly entertaining musical. It is something of a revelation. This stage phenom about the rise of the Four Seasons pop quartet — the 2006 Tony winner for [...]

By Cathi Aradi, Jersey Boys Blog Special Correspondent A great meeting of the minds (and hearts) of Jersey Boys’ fans took place in San Francisco on Saturday 12/8. The stars were in alignment as Irene and Buz Eisen flew in to catch the new production at the Curran. JB Blog fans Irene and Buz from [...]

Following Jersey Boys’ national tour cast member Eric Gutman’s Tour This blog has been a blast over the last year. Well, Eric has posted BIG news this morning! After performance #390 this evening with the national tour, he will be leaving to join Jersey Boys on Broadway! Check out Eric’s JBB Exclusive Interview from last [...]

Thank you to Four Seasons’ historian David Cace for this amazing piece of 4 Seasons’ memorabilia!

Seattle Gay News has a terrific interview with Jersey Boys national tour cast member Courter Simmons! Courter, who plays the real-life person Joe Pesci in the upcoming Seattle production of JB, wants the audience to know that “the thing that hooks audiences is that it’s music that they love, but it’s also a fantastic story, [...]

SeattlePI.com’s Theater Critic Joe Adcock has an interesting interview with Jersey Boys’ co-author Marshall Brickman. According to Adcock, creating a stage musical is not, normally, hazardous. Maybe you deal with some dangerous characters. But Nazis likely are not going to come after producers of “Cabaret” or “The Sound of Music” just because those plays portray [...]

According to Playbill.com, for the second consecutive week, Rhino’s Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording holds the Number One position on the Billboard Cast Album Chart! Below are the Top 5 Cast Albums from Billboard: Jersey Boys Wicked Legally Blonde The Lion King Mama Mia!

Las Vegas Sun reporter Jerry Fink notes that Las Vegas crowds have a habit of sending Broadway musicals packing. Even The Producers will join the conga line that’s left Las Vegas in the past two years – Hairspray,Avenue Q and the Queen-based musical We Will Rock You, not technically a Broadway show but with Broadway [...]

By Lauren Avila, Jersey Boys Blog Special Correspondent “Fabulous!” “One hit after another!” “Boy, can they really sing!” “The singing is incredible!” “Their voices are unreal!” No, those quotes are not from the endless critical acclaim in Chicago media. These reviews are direct from audience members’ mouths during intermission at the LaSalle Bank Theatre. Opening [...]

The latest Jersey Boys Podcast has an interview with Jersey Boys national tour member John Altieri, who plays Bob Crewe and other characters. It has Q&As related to John’s current and past roles as an actor, how he got the Jersey Boys role, and other details related to the challenges and benefits of being on [...]

Photos 1-10 courtesy of Walter McBride at BroadwayWorld.com; photos 11-18 courtesy of Walter McBride at BroadwayWorld.com. The Farnsworth Invention, a play directed by Jersey Boys’ Des McAnuff, opened at the Music Box Theatre on Monday, December 3rd! We saw it in previews back on October 20 and give it two thumbs up! The story, stars [...]

From BroadwayWorld.com: Angel Light Pictures announced today the signing of an agreement to spearhead the allocation of private funding for 7 Spencer Productions LLC’s romantic comedy feature film project “Three Roses and a Dance” and a thriller “Forevermore” in which Bobby Spencer is signed to direct. 7 Spencer Productions will act as executive producer and [...]

San Francisco Chronicle’s David Wiegand states that Jersey Boys, back at the Curran again with a third quartet of actors playing the Four Seasons, seems as close to an indestructible musical as any producer could hope for. You could probably cast Kermit, Animal, Bert and Ernie in the lead roles and still have people on [...]

The 19-day stagehands strike ended on November 28, allowing Jersey Boys and other darkened Broadway shows to resume performances on November 29. For the week ending December 2, 2007, Jersey Boys grossed $887,472 and had a 100.8% attendance rate for a five-show week ending December 2, 2007. Total grosses for the week were $14,259,335 for [...]