We visited Fox Theatre in Atlanta to see the Tony award-winning Jersey Boys. Great show: funny, dramatic and a terrific juxebox musical. Many of the tunes, of course, have forced their way into a certain level of timelessness, and all of your favorite Four Seasons songs made their way into the show.
It was a great way to learn about the band, too. Some things had to be capsulized for theater purposes, of course. Condensing the better part of three decades into two hours can’t be easy. But there’s a great tale in this show and, if you didn’t know any better you’d think it highly improbable.
My in-laws saw it on Broadway some time back. They grew up with this music, they lived in some of the same areas, so they find it very relatable. We might have been the youngest people in the place when we saw the show, but it transcends generations easily. After all, we grew up with the music too, just in a different time.
They said the performers they saw were better than the original Four Seasons. (The guy they saw playing Valli was in his debut role on Broadway. Incredible.)
Here’s that original cast performing at the Tony Awards in 2006:
The cast we saw wasn’t the Four Seasons, but they were great. Catch the show if you can.
