The Christian Hoff BLOG...

The cast of Jersey Boys will help bid farewell to departing host Katie Couric live on NBC’s "Today Show" tomorrow, Wednesday, May 31. The show airs between 7am and 10 AM ET (check local listings for times outside New York City).

Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, J. Robert Spencer and John Lloyd Young will perform several songs from the hit musical as part of a special tribute to Couric, who has been with "The Today Show" for over 15 years.

Jersey Boys has been nominated for eight Tony Awards--among them Best Musical, Best Direction of a Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Actor in a Musical - John Lloyd Young, and Best Featured Actor in a Musical - Christian Hoff.

I am writing in response to Anne Marie Welsh's Tony Awards article in Sunday's Arts section of the San Diego Union Tribune (“San Diego shines on Tony Awards list,” May 21).

She mentioned that San Diego-trained talent earned Tony nominations. I am writing to be more specific. Both Christian Hoff (nominated for featured actor in a musical) and Casey Nicholaw (direction and choreographer of a musical) spent many years being trained at San Diego Junior Theatre.

Nicholaw was very involved with Junior Theatre during all four years of high school. He was in our high school honor society Confetti, and is remembered for his exceptional role as J. Pierpont Finch in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.”

Hoff started in Junior Theatre at age 8 and continued until he was 18. He was featured in “Tom Sawyer,” “The Sound of Music,” “Grease,” “Mary Poppins” and “Lil' Abner,” to name a few. Christian's father, Jann Hoff, was on our Board of Trustees and his mother, Susan, worked tirelessly as a volunteer.

San Diego Junior Theatre is very proud of Casey and Christian. Their training at Junior Theatre has led them down the path to a successful career on the Broadway stage.

Will Neblett
Executive Director
San Diego Junior Theatre

Barbara and Scott Siegel of TalkinBroadway.com rave about their latest visit to "Jersey Boys"...

We also recently went back to see Jersey Boys. We weren’t going to wait four seasons to see it again. And what was fun back when it opened has now evolved into something even more polished and dynamic. The "Boys" have all gotten more deeply enmeshed in their roles. This is a show that will, indeed, be affected when replacement performers are eventually worked into the cast. All the more reason to see it again now when it is at the apogee of hits success.

If you missed it live click here to check it out on the Genuine Imitation Life Gazette website.

Broadway's Boys, both the History and Jersey ones, will be presented with their Outer Critics Circle Awards at the May 25 ceremony at New York City's Sardi's Restaurant...

By Ernio Hernandez - Playbill.com

An article on "Jersey Boys" titled "Battle of the Network Stars" will run in Newsweek the week of 5/29.

New York Yankees’ Manager Joe Torre was in the audience at Jersey Boys Saturday night. He stopped by to say Hi to the guys after the show. Talk was that the four Jersey Boys might sing the National Anthem at a Yankees' home game soon.

Because Jersey Boys has become such a huge hit, it's easy to forget that the show arrived on Broadway last fall with no advance sale, little hype and plenty of doubters who expected yet another cookie-cutter "jukebox musical."...

by Kathy Henderson - published on Broadway.com

"Jersey Boys" will perform on "Live with Regis and Kelly" Thursday 5/25/06. Click the link above to see what channel and time the show is on in your area.

"Jersey Boys" will be performing twice on TODAY in the span of a few days. Check them out on Katie Courics final show 5/31/06 and then again on the Weekend TODAY 6/3/06.

The 51st Annual Drama Desk Awards were presented on Sunday, May 21, 2006 at 9:00 PM, at the LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center. The annual awards honor excellence in theater for Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway during the season.

Christian Hoff began his stage and screen career at age eight. Performing became an instant passion and he began training as an actor, singer and dancer. When he was eleven, he followed his Dad and Brother into music and bought his first guitar. Notable career highlights over the decades include portraying Walt Disney in One Man’s Dream, providing the voice of Richie Rich in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series of the same name.....

Bill Clinton visits the JERSEY BOYS backstage during the evening performance. photo: Bruce Glikas