In today’s St. Petersburg Times, Frankie Valli, legendary lead singer of the Four Seasons, talks to Marty Clear about the chart topping hits that people still come to hear, four decades later in concert. Valli also talks about his latest hit–Jersey Boys, the smash Broadway musical based on the story of the Four Seasons.
Valli is […]
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The cast of Jersey Boys will appear on the Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday, February 21, 2006.
More details to follow as they become available.
In the current edition of Broadway.com’s First Person, Jersey Boys’ co-author Marshall Brickman confesses how a newfound passion for the Four Seasons coupled with the collaborative nature of theater helped him put the story of that crooning quartet from the Garden State on the Great White Way.
Prior to launching his mega-successful screenwriting career, Brickman, who […]
Variety’s Gordon Cox notes the Broadway business perked up a bit last week, with total grosses climbing almost $650,000 to $13,896,209 for the week ending February 12, 2006.
For a third consecutive week, Jersey Boys held the Number 4 position, grossing $875,921 with 9,003 seats sold.
Below are the Top 10 Grosses from Broadwayworld.com:
Wicked $1,315,139
Lion King $986,094
Spamalot $932,351
Jersey Boys […]
Jersey Boys Blog is proud to announce the launch of its new free Fan Photo Gallery. After registration, fans and cast members will be able to upload photos of themselves, the cast and crew, the theater, the Four Seasons or anything else you can think of associated with our favorite hit Broadway musical, Jersey Boys.
Included […]
We’ve had a good response to the latest Jersey Boys Blog Poll, What is your favorite Jersey Boys musical number? We’re just shy of 100 votes, and it’s a very close race among some really incredible songs! If you haven’t done so already, please vote for your favorite JB musical number, from the […]
(more...)Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording held the Number 4 position for a second week in a row on Billboard’s Top Broadway Album charts for the week of February 11, 2006.
Here is Billboard Magazine’s Top 10 Broadway Albums for this week:
The Color Purple
Wicked
Sweeney Todd
Jersey Boys
Mama Mia!
The Phantom of the Opera
Spamalot
Rent
Hairspray
Avenue Q
For the week of February 4, 2006, the Jersey Boys Original Cast Recordingheld the Number 4 position on Billboard Magazine’s Top Broadway Albums Chart.
Billboard’s Top 5 Broadway Albums:
Wicked
The Color Purple
Mama Mia!
Jersey Boys
Phantom of the Opera
In honor of the upcoming Valentine’s Day holiday, Browdwayworld.com spoke to over 175 stars of the Great White Way and beyond to find out what they think is the most romantic Broadway song ever written. They caught up with two of the Jersey Boys who shared their thoughts on their favorites:
Daniel Reichard: I know it’s […]
The Jersey Boys Blog was thrilled to receive a thank you note from the legendary songwriter/producer/artist Bob Crewe for our recent post about his phenomenal accomplishments. Bob also noted that his visual artworks are currently represented by the Jan Baum Gallery in Los Angeles.
(more...)Broadwayworld.com reports that the cast of Jersey Boys, along with Sweeney Todd’s Michael Cerveris, The Pajama Game’s Kelli O’Hara, and several other Broadway stars will be appearing in So In Love: A Night of Romance at the Rainbow Room, the 21st annual spring gala benefit concert for The Drama League on Monday, February 13, 2006 […]
(more...)Jersey Boys cast members Christian Hoff Daniel Reichard, and J. Robert Spencer were among the Broadway stars who came out to support the annual Second Stage All-Star Bowling Classic at the Leisure Time Bowling Lanes, in the Port Authority building, on Ninth Avenue in New York City. Playbill.com has some great photos of the cast […]
(more...)Variety’s Gordon Cox reports that Broadway grosses registered a predictable winter slump for the week ending 2/5/2006, falling $1,611,871 to $13,234,552 for 25 shows. But the good news is this: that’s still more than the approximately $11.5 million average the session has earned the last three years.
Among the few productions that didn’t see […]
Omaha World-Herald staff writer Bob Fischbach provides readers with a glimpse of John Lloyd Young’s childhood in Bellevue, Nebraska, where his acting ambitions and dreams began, his seven years as a struggling actor, and his Broadway debut playing Frankie Valli in this season’s megahit, Jersey Boys.
Young says his acting ambitions began in the […]
In Jersey Boys, we’re introduced to Bob Crewe (played by Peter Gregus), the flamboyant, horoscope-obsessed song writer/record producer who helped to put the Four Seasons on the road to chart topping success in the 1960s. Crewe has had a very illustrious career as a musician, songwriter, record producer, and artist.
Bob Crewe was inducted into […]
San Diego Union-Tribune theater critic Anne Marie Welsh made a recent trip to the Big Apple to experience a sampling of Broadway and off-Broadway productions. Welsh notes that the Broadway season so far has proved that unpredictable, with just one bona fide (and artistically deserving) hit opening since August, the La Jolla Playhouse-spawned Jersey Boys. […]
(more...)Broadwayworld.com reports that the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), whose annual three-week celebration has premiered more than 70 new musicals in the past two years, will present a one-night-only benefit concert, The Best of Fest Bash, on Monday, February 27, 2006 at Dodger Stages (340 W. 50th St.). Showtime is 7 p.m.
Directed by […]
Broadwayworld.com announced today that all sorts of bear stars will come out for Broadway Bears IX on February 12, 2006 at the B. B. King Blues Club & Grill (237 West 42nd Street). Hosted by Bryan Batt (La Cage aux Folles, Beauty and the Beast), the evening will continue in the Broadway Bears tradition […]
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