Jersey Boys Blog

Jay Reiner of Reuters states that the best thing about “Jersey Boys” — last year’s Tony winner for best musical — is that it’s not just about the music of ’60s icon Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. And this is saying something in a show that features 33 songs, many of them soft-pop classics, [...]

Wow! Check out ET’s coverage of Jersey Boys’ rehearsals in LA!

The Los Angeles Daily News provides some brief biographical information on the real Four Seasons! Frankie Valli: Falsetto singer born Francis Stephen Castelluccio in Newark, N.J. Cut his first single in 1952.Sang with the Varietones, which later became the Four Lovers and then the Four Seasons. Solo hits include theme song to “Grease” and “Swearin’ [...]

Evan Henerson, Theater Writer for the Los Angeles Daily News recently spoke with original Four Seasons Bob Gaudio and Frankie Valli, along with co-authors Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice about the megahit Jersey Boys, which opens at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles TONIGHT! Here’s a sneak peek of this interesting piece: The difference between [...]

In La Oferta, reporter Íride Aparicio provides a terrific interview with Jarrod Spector, who stars as Frankie Valli in the San Francisco/Chicago Jersey Boys national tour. Spector is garnering ovations for his sensational portrayal of the pop icon. In this interview, Spector reflects on playing Valli, his career (that started as a child), his college [...]

In a Special to the Los Angeles Times, Rob Kendt provides an in-depth article about Deven May, who stars as the slick, pompadoured wiseguy Tommy DeVito in the national tour of Jersey Boys. Though the Tony-laden show about the Four Seasons singing group does have “Boys” in the title, May, the versatile actor best known [...]

In The Press Enterprise, Eric Auerbach chats with Erich Bergen, who stars as Bob Gaudio in the national tour of Jersey Boys. Bergen talks about the first time he saw JB on Broadway and what it’s like to play Gaudio, the musical genius who wrote most of the chart-topping hits for the Four Seasons. Auerbach [...]

Ventura County Star columnist Jeff Favre states that in the early 1960s, a group of young dudes from New Jersey singing catchy four-part harmony became the top pop idols everywhere in the country except Southern California. That’s because the West Coast was and remains Beach Boys territory. Brian Wilson and his bandmates even delivered a [...]

Over the last couple of months, Jersey Boys Blog has received lots of requests for us to find out more about JB Broadway ensemble cast member Travis Cloer! Blog readers are oh so curious about where “this great new guy came from” and “what’s the scoop on him.” While in New York last month, I [...]

This Just In: Jersey Boys National Tour will be featured on “Entertainment Tonight” this evening! Check local listings for details!

Tomorrow night at 11 p.m., catch Tony Award winner John Lloyd Young at “Don’t Quit Your Night Job.” “Don’t Quit Your Night Job” is a late night happening of music, comedy and improvisation conceived and performed by Steve Rosen (Spamalot), David Rossmer (Nerds), Sarah Saltzberg (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), with Dan Lipton [...]

Jersey Boys remained HOT at the box office! For the week ending 5/27/07, the show grossed $1,196,7305 and had a 100.5% attendance rate. For the week ending 5/27/07, the 36 shows on the board grossed $20,922,895. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending May 27, 2007: Wicked $1,404,241 Jersey Boys [...]

On his Changing Channels blog, Miami Herald reporter Glen Garvin chatted last week with Steve van Zandt, the former E Street Band guitarist who plays family Silvio on “The Sopranos.” Garvin asked who was the Frankie Valli nut on the show. Not only has The Sopranos featured a lot of 4 Seasons’ tunes over the [...]

Paul Hodgins of The Orange County Register spoke to director Des McAnuff and pop icon Frankie Valli about why Jersey Boys is a hit. This blockbuster is a straightforward bio-play about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice with the blessing of Valli and the group’s songwriting genius, [...]

The latest Jersey Boys Podcast has been posted! This edition has details about the Jersey Boys Tour, Jersey Boys Broadway, Jersey Boys Las Vegas, happy birthday wishes to Frankie Valli, and condolences for the passing of Frankie’s first wife, Mary. The podcast also includes a terrific audio segment from the Mike Douglas Show featuring Frankie [...]

In John Lloyd Young’s final interview segment with Jersey Boys Blog, he shares his most memorable on-stage and off-stage surprises and experiences; what advice he’s given to kids who aspire to be actors; what advice he would give to actors that want to play the role of Frankie Valli; and what he has discovered about [...]

Christian Hoff reports on his blog that he will be a panelist in The Life Of An Actor event that will take place on Monday, June 4 at 8:15 PM at 92nd Street YMCA. This event is part of the 125th Anniversary Celebration of The Actors Fund, which is the organization that provides essential services [...]

In Part Two of his interview, John Lloyd Young reflects on the last year and a half of starring as Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys–including the thrills and the challenges of his Broadway debut, his days at Brown; and how he and his colleagues worked to overcome the jukebox musical stigma; and what the cast [...]

Photos courtesy of Linda Lenzi at BroadwayWorld.com