Jersey Boys Blog

Check out Broadway.com’s video coverage of the opening day festivities of the Broadway Show League at Central Park. In addition to Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, Bobby Spencer, and John Lloyd Young singing the National Anthem, the guys talk about the sports they played in their early days!

As we’ve said before, no show out there has hooked the fans quite like Jersey Boys! We’re delighted to present the 17th JBB Fantastic Fan Interview with Erin Geoffroy who hails from Massachusetts. Erin chats about how she became interested in Jersey Boys; what makes the show so appealing to her; how much fun she’s [...]

Jon Fassnacht of the Reading Eagle says that Frankie Valli entertained an appreciative packed audience Thursday night in the Sovereign Performing Arts Center during a concert to benefit the Mental Health Association of Reading and Berks County. When the Four Seasons scored a hit some 40 years ago with “Working My Way Back to You,” [...]

Check out this great video of Frankie Valli and the Commodores on the “Midnight Special” back in the late ’70s, with Frankie and Lionel Richie sharing the lead vocals on “Grease.” How ’bout those gold chains?

If you haven’t checked it out lately, you’ve missed some great posts by Eric Gutman on his Tour This blog. He fills us in on all the details of the tech rehearsals in New Haven, JB national tour’s last days in San Francisco, and he and Sara’s amazing wedding (including links to photos)!

Pat Craig of Contra Costa Times tells readers not to worry if you bought your tickets late — Jersey Boys remains the hottest, most harmonious ticket in town despite a complete cast change. According to Craig, the new cast, which took over the Curran Theatre production last Friday, has every bit as much talent, energy [...]

Playbill.com reports that Drew Gehling, Jeremy Kushnier and Jarrod Spector — who currently embody The Four Seasons in the San Francisco run of Jersey Boys — will repeat their roles alongside Michael Ingersoll for the forthcoming Chicago stint. Jersey Boys will begin performances Oct. 6 for the Broadway in Chicago season at LaSalle Bank Theatre [...]

Theater Dogs blogger Chad Jones asks: Who knew we were all so hungry for Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons? Jones’ latest post answers that question. Last December, when the national tour of the Broadway hit Jersey Boys opened at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre, audiences whooped, hollered and screamed through the musical retelling of how [...]

Toronto Star Theatre Critic notes that Richard Ouzounian ‘The Boys’ have found a home. “The Canadian premiere of Jersey Boys will be happening, as we always hoped it would, at the Toronto Centre for the Arts in the summer of 2008,” producer Aubrey Dan told the Star yesterday. There had been some doubt whether the [...]

Movies, TV, high school and college talent shows….I don’t want to seem–you know—ubiquitous–but Jersey Boys is popping up everywhere!! Although I haven’t seen them personally, reliable sources have told me: In “Spiderman III,” there is a very short and very faint glimpse of the Jersey Boys poster next to Sardi’s. Peter Parker’s (Spiderman) girlfriend, Mary [...]

The Tech Half of JBB has just elevated himself to “F’ing Genius” status. Not only has he installed the ability to subscribe to JBB posts via email, you now have the ability to subscribe to comments via email the same way! Thanks to the suggestion from an avid, and highly intelligent reader, you can have [...]

Hi, its me again. In case you forgot, I am the tech half of JBB here to enhance your online experience (with the consent of my personal manager, the blog half). Recently, a reader wrote to us expressing the desire to subscribe to JBB via email. This was not an extraordinary request, (it didn’t cost [...]

Contra Costa Times theater critic Pat Craig fills everyone in on the new JB company that is settling into the Curran Theatre. It’s been quite the whirlwind of activity for the entire cast and crew. Craig talks to production supervisor Richard Hester, in addition to cast members Steve Gouveia (Nick Massi) and Jarrod Spector (Frankie [...]

Jersey Boys fans from all over the country keep coming back to Broadway (and the national tour!) to catch the show again and again! As we’ve said before, the response to the JBB Fantastic Fan Interviews has been amazing! Jersey Boys Blog is thrilled to present our 16th Jersey Boys Blog Fantastic Fan Interview with [...]

Temperatures soared last week in NYC, and Jersey Boys’ box office numbers were also on fire! For the week ending May 13, 2007, Jersey Boys grossed $1,190,277 (with a 100.7% attendance rate). For the week ending 5/13/07, Broadway box office grosses totaled $20,063,200 for the 36 shows on the boards. Below are the Top 10 [...]

Playbill.com reports that “Tease! A Night of Burlesque” is the title of a new series of performances at the Cutting Room that begins May 14. Jersey Boys co-stars Daniel Reichard and Dominic Nolfi will host May 14, June 4 and June 11 evenings, which celebrate “one of the world’s most sensual dance forms.” Scheduled to [...]

Tomorrow night, Monday, May 14, “The Monday Nights, New Voices” series, created by composer Scott Alan, will take place at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre at 7PM. The show will be hosted by New Voices alumni, Sara Schmidt and Nikki Renee Daniels, both of whom took part in the very first New Voices concert. For more [...]

Frank Rizzo of The Hartford Courant states that you would have thought you were in Newark. A fuggedaboutit attitude and unfuggeddable music have filled New Haven’s Shubert Theater for the past four weeks as the production crew and cast of the national tour of the hit musical “Jersey Boys” prepare for its Los Angeles launch. [...]

A new Jersey Boys Podcast has been posted! It includes the latest news from Jersey Boys Broadway, Jersey Boys Tour, and information about two of the original Four Seasons: Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio.