Jersey Boys Blog

For the week ending 9/1/13, JERSEY BOYS grossed $804,982 at the Broadway box office and had an 86.8% attendance rate. The 23 shows on the boards grossed $20,496,643, up over 2.2% from the previous week’s totals. For full coverage of Broadway box office totals for the week ending 9/1/13, visit BroadwayWorld.com.

The Eiffel Tower Experience welcomed their 10 millionth guest and was not only awarded a trip to Paris, France but they were also greeted and serenaded by Jersey Boys Las Vegas cast members and Taylor Hicks! Enjoy!

On Tuesday evening, athletes from the US Open Wheelchair Tennis Competition (taking place 9/5-9/8) visited JERSEY BOYS and posed with cast members! For full coverage, visit BroadwayWorld.com.

Since it’s Broadway Week on 92.3NowFM, Ty Loves NY is featuring Broadway stars this week! Check out today’s fun interview with Dominic Scaglione, Jr.! Along with chatting about his amazing ride with JERSEY BOYS, Dominic also gets to play “Peanut Butter Karaoke”! Click HERE to listen.

Billboard Magazine has posted a marvelous interview with pop icon Frankie Valli, who reflects on the early days before becoming a hitmaker, his extraordinary music career, and JERSEY BOYS! Below is a preview: Billboard: You’re on the road, and you’re involved with the upcoming “Jersey Boys” movie, to be directed by Clint Eastwood. Why work [...]

The JERSEY BOYS national tour will be playing Birmingham, Alabama from September 10-15 at BJCC Concert Hall. Alec Harvey of AL.com has a terrific feature with original Four Seasons member Bob Gaudio and the actor who plays him in the hit musical, Jason Kappus. Check out a sneak peek below: Starring as Gaudio is Jason [...]

Thanks to Jersey Boys Blog Special Correspondent Carol Boyd, we have fabulous photo coverage of the JERSEY BOYS movie Downtown Los Angeles location shoot on Friday, August 30! All of the filming took place inside the diner and no photos were allowed while they were filming, so these were all taken during set-up.

With kids heading back to a new school year, Broadway.com decided to ask Broadway stars to look back at their own years in the classroom—and share a school picture! Check out a preview of JERSEY BOYS’ Tommy DeVito, Andy Karl’s high school reflections: Who was your favorite teacher and why? My high-school English teacher was [...]

More exciting casting news about Clint Eastwood’s upcoming film adaptation of JERSEY BOYS! JB Las Vegas cast member Rob Marnell, who currently stars as Bob Gaudio, will be playing Four Seasons bass player & bass singer Joe Long in the movie!! Check out what Rob posted on his Facebook page: I am completely overwhelmed, blessed, [...]

John Lloyd Young (Photo Credit: Joan Marcus) On the John Lloyd Young Friends Facebook page today, JLY fans rejoiced ! JLY is delighted to have been chosen to star as ‘Frankie Valli’ in Clint Eastwood’s film Jersey Boys.,” read the post. “Production has started and JLY couldn’t be more excited to be involved with this [...]

TheWrap.com reports that “The Sopranos” actress Kathrine Narducci, who played Charmaine Bucco on the Jersey-set mob series, has been cast as Frankie Valli’s mother in Clint Eastwood’s adaptation of the popular musical JERSEY BOYS. Ms. Narducci will play Frankie Valli’s mother, Mary Rinaldi, alongside Lou Volpe as Frankie’s father, Anthony. Ms. Narducci started her career [...]

For the fourth week in August, JERSEY BOYS grossed $762,714 at the Broadway box office and had an 83.2% attendance rate. The 24 shows on the boards grossed $20,604,712, down just under 6% from the previous week’s totals. For full coverage of Broadway box office totals for the week ending 8/25/13, visit BroadwayWorld.com.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Erica Piccininni, who starred as “Lorraine,” the attractive reporter who has a steamy romance with the Frankie Valli character in Jersey Boys’ original Broadway production, will reprise her role in the Warner Bros. film version of the Tony-winning musical. Piccininni’s screen credits include appearances on TV shows such as The [...]

From BroadwayWorld.com: As of the performance last Friday, August 23rd, the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical JERSEY BOYS surpassed LIFE WITH FATHER with 3,225 performances, becoming the 16th longest-running show in Broadway history! Congratulations to the cast, crew, creative team, and everyone associated with JERSEY BOYS on another amazing milestone!

On August 26, 1978, Frankie Valli hit Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart with “Grease,” the theme song from the blockbuster movie. This hit, written by Barry Gibb, remained atop the chart for two consecutive weeks. Enjoy Frankie’s performance on “Soul Train”!

For the third week in August, JERSEY BOYS grossed $812,903 at the Broadway box office and had an 88.9% attendance rate. The 23 shows on the boards grossed $21,839,391, down 4.8% from the previous week’s totals. For full coverage of Broadway box office totals for the week ending 8/18/13, visit BroadwayWorld.com.

Exciting post today on Miles Aubrey’s Facebook page: I’m thrilled to officially announce that I will be playing Charlie Calello in the upcoming Jersey Boys film, directed by Clint Eastwood. I am so grateful for this honor! Congratulations to Miles on the wonderful news!

Scoop from Variety’s Justin Kroll: “Boardwalk Empire” actor Vincent Piazza has closed a deal to join the cast of Warner Bros. “Jersey Boys.” Director Clint Eastwood and producer Graham King have always liked Piazza for the role of Tommy DeVito and offered him the role a couple weeks back, but unlike his other co-stars, Piazza [...]

Playbill.com has a fabulous feature with cast member Jessica Rush (who plays Lorraine & several other roles) on her two-show day at JERSEY BOYS! In addition to photos with her actor husband Eric Anderson (who’s currently starring in Soul Doctor), you’ll see Jessica throughout the day & evening with her castmates & crew. Click HERE [...]