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By Lauren Avila, Jersey Boys Blog Special Correspondent San Francisco saw the end of Jersey Boys’ 10-month run last weekend. September 29th was Jarrod Spector’s last show at the Curran Theatre. He did a marvelous job and was very well-praised for it! The entire show was a spectacular hit, with one thunderous round of applause [...]

Photos courtesy of Genevieve Rafter Keddy.

Terry Loncaric of the Northwest Herald has a terrific preview of Jersey Boys, which opens this weekend at the LaSalle Bank Theatre in Chicago! The reporter notes that many stage dramatizations of pop stars are airbrushed, fluffy “jukebox” musicals with little substance. The story serves as window dressing for an evening of greatest hits. Winning [...]

Mike Danahey of Courier News Online reports that When the Tony Award-winning Jersey Boys settles into the LaSalle Bank Theatre in downtown Chicago for an extended run beginning today, the cast of the biographical musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons will include two performers with roots in the Chicago area–Lauren Marshal and Mike [...]

Tara Brite of the ASU Web Devil notes that she grew up with the Four Seasons, thanks to her dad’s obsession with the ’60s pop band. No family road trip, no matter how short, was complete without at least one sing-along. Tara, however, wasn’t too thrilled with the Seasons’ music at the time. But when [...]

On Tuesday, October 2nd, Gerard Alessandrini’s Forbidden Broadway marked its 25th Anniversary with a brand-new edition Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening, at the 47th Street Theatre (304 West 47 Street). To mark the occasion, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Office of Theatre, Film and Television named October 2, 2007 as “Forbidden Broadway Day.” Check out photos of Daniel [...]

Yesterday was a BIG day for Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons fans! For the first time since 1992, Frankie Valli has released a new CD–”Romancing the ’60s”! Stay tuned to Jersey Boys Blog for samples and a review of this incredible new CD!

BroadwayWorld.com reports that you can enter now to win two tickets to “Jersey Boys Fans Unite to Support Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS!” On Sunday evening October 21, fans of the Tony Award-winning musical smash Jersey Boys will have the rare opportunity to meet Broadway’s “Four Seasons” at an exclusive cocktail party followed by a private [...]

The legendary Frankie Valli will be this year’s grand marshal at San Francisco’s 139th ANNUAL ITALIAN HERITAGE PARADE on Sunday, October 7! More than 400,000 revelers are expected at the ANNUAL ITALIAN HERITAGE PARADE! This is San Francisco’s oldest civic event and the nation’s oldest Italian-American parade and community celebration. A San Francisco institution since [...]

Kerry Lengel of The Arizona Republic states that Jersey Boys strikes all the right notes! It certainly makes the most of its Sopranos atmosphere, with its tough-guy accents and plentiful F-bombs, even though the local Mafia don owes more to Marlon Brando than James Gandolfini. Mostly, though, Jersey Boys soars on the power of personality. [...]

By Howard Tucker, Special Correspondent Tonight, at the renowned Taj Lounge on W. 21st Street in the Chelsea section of New York City , Jersey Boys’ very own Christopher Kale Jones and Jennifer Marie Coker (Fame on 42nd Street, Evil Dead the Musical) married. The bride was smashing and the groom strikingly dapper. The Jersey [...]

Kathy Allen of the Arizona Daily Star says that Jersey Boys is fun. Lots and lots of fun. Credit some fine acting and even finer singing to the four lads who play the members of the singing group. These actors, who appear to have been born long after The Four Seasons faded away with the [...]

We wish Jennifer Naimo a very Happy Birthday today! Before starring as Mary Delgado (and so many other roles) in Jersey Boys, both on Broadway and at the La Jolla Playhouse, Jennifer performed in several television shows (including “Scrubs” and “Strong Medicine”); on Broadway (Les Miserables and Grease); and in many Off-Broadway, national tours, and [...]

Jersey Boys had another robust week at the box office! For the week ending September 30, 2007, the show grossed $1,206,558. As with the previous week, JB was the ONLY sold out show on Broadway last week, with a 100.8% attendance rate! For the week ending 9/30/07, grosses climbed to $14,329,577 for the 24 shows [...]

Happy Belated Birthday to Jeremy Kushnier! Jeremy celebrated his birthday on September 30–which was also the final Curran Theatre performance for the SF/Chicago Jersey Boys Company! Before starring as Tommy DeVito in the SF/Chicago JB Company, Jeremy took Broadway by storm in his first leading role as Ren (the Kevin Bacon role) in Footloose in [...]

Jersey Boys Blog wishes Travis Cloer a very Happy Birthday! Travis, one of the newest cast members, has been with Jersey Boys for about seven months. Before making his Broadway debut in JB, Travis headlined on cruise ships with his own cabaret show. He was also in Damn Yankees at the Downtown Cabaret Theatre in [...]

Heather Ferguson has been asked to do a small concert with several other understudies from various Broadway shows! Heather will perform in “At This Performance,” the ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway standbys and understudies, TONIGHT at 8PM at Off-Broadway’s McGinn/Cazale Theatre. Heather will be performing two of the songs from the “Journey to Jersey [...]

Chris Page of GetOutAZ.com has an interesting piece about Jersey Boys, which is playing a three-week stint at Tempe’s Gammage Auditorium. If audiences have caught Four Seasons fever, that has meant a whole new generation of actors having to acquire an appreciation for the music. In the tour that comes to Gammage, Valli is played [...]

Theater critic Chris Jones has an in-depth feature on Frankie Valli in today’s Chicago Tribune. Jones talks to Valli, in addition to Bob Gaudio, about the creation and phenomenal success of Jersey Boys and their career’s ups and downs over the last 50 years. Jones has also included interesting insights from Des McAnuff and Rick [...]