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Jersey Boys is a glimpse at the guys behind a sound that has managed to endure in the hearts of listeners for over four decades. The award winning musical production is a documentary of sorts, telling how Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons evolved from unknown New Jersey kids to world-famous pop superstars, while featuring more than 30 beautifully performed songs, including all-time favorites Sherry, Big Girls Don’t Cry, and Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, to name a few.
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About The Jersey Boys
Jersey Boys first opened on Broadway in 2005, followed by a North American National tour, in addition to productions in the West End and Melbourne. Jersey Boys also won four 2006 Tony Awards – Best Musical, Best Actor for John Lloyd Young, Best Featured Actor for Christian Hoff, and Best Lighting Design.
This is a musical biography of The Four Seasons which covers everything from their rise to fame to the tough times and personal battles, and resulting with the ultimate victory of a bunch of buddies whose music seemed to define the generation. Although it does include many popular tunes from the group’s song book, Jersey Boys is not your simple tribute concert – getting to the heart of the relationships at the center of the quartet, while placing a larger spotlight on singer Frankie Valli, the little kid with the big falsetto voice. In addition to following the group’s increasing popularity as performers, Jersey Boys also focuses on their allegiance to a code of street honor which helped them survive numerous real life challenges in New Jersey, such as gambling debts, Mafia threats, and personal family disasters.
Upbeat and fast-paced, Jersey Boys will appeal to diehard fans of The Four Seasons, as well as those maybe less familiar with their huge catalogue of popular hits. This can be explained by the fact that, unlike typical jukebox musicals, this musical puts a heavy emphasis on telling a story, thus providing its universal appeal.
While Jersey Boys moves along at a rate which may allow for younger theatre-goers to follow, it is not actually a show for children. The young ones will probably not appreciate the heavy nostalgic theme, while parents may cringe at the sexual innuendo, infidelity, the death of a child, enough profanity to make a truck driver nervous, and other common types of behavior one may expect to see if they were on tour with four tough guys traveling from one sold-out show to the next.
You could be someone who has loved The Four Seasons for more than forty years, or maybe you have no idea who The Four Seasons are. Either way, if you think you would enjoy a ton of great music and a great success story, this may just be the perfect show for you. If so, get your tickets now and go see Jersey Boys on Broadway at the August Wilson Theatre in New York.
