Another RED HOT Jersey Boys LA Review!
June 9th, 2007You can’t leave your computer for more than a few hours without missing another sensational review highlighting Jersey Boys at the Ahmanson Theatre! Check out Travis Michael Holder’s thoughts on this incredible show:
Not even the onstage recreation of Frankie Valli’s fingernails-on-the-blackboard falsetto could dissuade me from enjoying this show immensely and frankly, Christopher Kale Jones’ depiction of Valli’s swing into his highest margarita-freeze notes is such a feat of skill, one might listen to the original versions of Four Seasons songs with an all new sense of wonder after experiencing this show.
Jersey Boys, featuring an amazing number of the group’s numerous Top-40 smashes, first and foremost has something going for it a lot of musicals don’t: a ballsy, crisply intelligent and non-fluffy book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice which tells the story of these four working-class lads from beautiful downtown Newark who beat the odds and stayed out of jail just long enough to become members of one of the most enduringly popular musical success stories of the last century.
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Frankie Valli & John Lloyd Young both have such a beautiful sound. Nails on a chalkboard? I always thought that was a bad sound. I really haven’t heard Christopher Kale Jones sing too much. I did hear him on the Tonight Show and what I did hear wasn’t nails on a chalkboard.I always loved Frankies voice, then and now!
Comment by THEA — June 9, 2007 @ 1:35 pm
Hysterical. I never really liked (the real) Frankie’s voice anyway…
Jersey Boys makes it palatable.
Comment by Leanna — June 9, 2007 @ 3:43 pm