The day after Jersey Boys celebrated their 600th performance, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2006 gave back to their community by presenting a special benefit performance for the Actors’ Fund of America on Sunday, April 15. Check out Broadway.com for photos from the exciting event!
(more...)Jersey Boys had another terrific box office week, grossing $1,162,541 for the week ending April 22, 2007. Additionally, the show had the highest seating capacity of any show on Broadway–100.7%! For the week ending 4/22/07, grosses totaled $21,398,055 for the 37 shows on the boards. Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the [...]
(more...)The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports that Jersey Boys is coming to Toronto during the 2007-08 theatre season! Canada’s newest theatre impresario launched a company in Toronto on Monday, with plans to bring six big-name productions to the city. Aubrey Dan — the Toronto philanthropist who is also the founder and president of Dancap Global Asset [...]
(more...)The response to JBB Fantastic Fan Interviews has been remarkable, with fans from all over the country–including New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Georgia, San Francisco, and Arizona participating! We’re excited to present our 14th interview with Mike Magbaleta, who hails from SF. Mike talks about how he and his family became hooked on Jersey Boys; [...]
(more...)The 4 Seasons third album, “Ain’t That A Shame and 11 Others” is another one of the group’s albums that I didn’t discover until much later. While the “Sherry” and “Big Girls Don’t Cry” albums feature the Number One hits and lots of incredible renditions of other groups’ hits from the ’50s, this album features [...]
(more...)BroadwayWorld.com reports that this May and June, the 92nd Street Y welcomes some of America’s most highly regarded actors to its stage, giving audiences a chance to get to know the people behind the talented faces. On Monday, June 4, at 8:15 PM, Tony Award-winner Christian Hoff, along with Harvey Fierstein, Charles Busch, and Michael [...]
(more...)From today’s USA Weekend Who’s News column, a reader wants to know if Jersey Boys will become a movie. Q: Are there any plans to make the Broadway hit Jersey Boys, about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, into a movie? A: There are plenty of rumors — some have Harvey Weinstein, Steven Spielberg or [...]
(more...)Check out this incredible Four Seasons/Jersey Boys profile that was recently posted on YouTube.com!
(more...)Thanks to Mama Lucy, a Jersey Boys Blog reader, we found out that Miles Aubrey from the JB national tour cast should receive some kudos for going on as Bob Gaudio on Thursday, April 19 at the Curran Theatre. She said that Miles was excellent and “very smooth” in the role! After the Thursday show, [...]
(more...)Thank you to Kathy Bartsche for providing Jersey Boys Blog with this amazing video clip of Bobby Spencer’s appearance at “The After Party,” which was held at The Laurie Beechman Theatre, located within The West Bank Café on Friday evening, April 13. Video by Kathy Bartsche
(more...)Jersey Boys Blog would like to send Happy 39th Birthday wishes to Christian Hoff! Prior to winning a Tony for his portrayal of Tommy DeVito in Jersey Boys, Christian performed on Broadway in The Who’s Tommy, in several feature films, and in many primetime television episodes. Most recently, he portrayed a prosecutor in “Law & [...]
(more...)Matthew Scott will be playing Frankie Valli at the Saturday evening April 28th and the Sunday April 29th performances of Jersey Boys!
(more...)This update is a little late, but if you haven’t been to Eric Gutman’s Tour This! blog lately, check out his post about his debut performance as Tommy DeVito on Saturday evening, April 14th. As I’ve said before, no one can tell the story quite like Eric. Here’s a preview of the highlights from Eric’s [...]
(more...)NWI Times Correspondent Tom Lounges has an in-depth story on Frankie Valli, who talks about the phenomenal success of Jersey Boys; his chart-topping success as the lead singer with the Four Seasons; and what’s happening with him in the near future. Valli said he is thrilled with the Jersey Boys depiction of his story with [...]
(more...)Frankie Valli will be performing in concert at the Chicago Theatre to a full house tomorrow night. Chicago Sun-Times reporter Miriam Di Nunzio recently chatted with the pop icon when he was in town to promote Jersey Boys. Here’s a preview of the Q&A with the original Jersey Boy: Q. I read somewhere that Chicago [...]
(more...)During John Lloyd Young’s vacation, new Jersey Boy Travis Cloer will be playing Frankie Valli during the evening shows from Wednesday April 25 through Friday April 27. This will be Travis’ first time playing Valli!
(more...)Bergen Record’s Virginia Rohan has written a terrific article about a real Jersey City boy–John Lloyd Young! Young talks to Rohan about his Tony Award-winning role as Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys; what he did to prepare for the part; his life before his breakout role; and his future. When a show called Jersey Boys [...]
(more...)Thanks to Special Correspondent Howard Tucker, we can enjoy photos of Jersey Boys’ Actors’ Fund pre-performance party at Sardi’s!
(more...)According to Playbill.com, the Grammy Award-winning Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording remained at the Number Two position on the Billboard Cast Albums chart. Take a look at the latest Billboard Top 5 Broadway Cast Album list: Wicked Jersey Boys Mama Mia! Spring Awakening The Lion King
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