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1. stubbleyou
   Member

   I convinced a friend who's going to LV to see JB. She's too young to have lived thru the music, but when she looked the program over, she said what all the reviews and interviews mention, that she recognized many of the song titles but didn't realize they were all by the Four Seasons. Still, I doubt she knows them really well.

   I don't like hearing songs for the first time when I see a show - I can't really appreciate them unless I'm already familiar with them, so I will usually get a CD first and get to know the music ahead of time. But for JB, I feel the CD "gives away" too much of the dialog which I think an audience member should hear the first time during the show, not before. So...

   I decided the best thing would be to make her a CD of the Four Seasons' recordings of the hit songs from the show. I also included the Rays' original version of Silhouettes, and the Angels doing MBB.

   What do you think? What have you done? I hope you don't give away the best lines, ha ha ha.

   Posted 3 years ago #

2. phillygalg
   Member

   I agree about the CD. My friend gave me the CD at least 6 months before I saw the show. I remember wondering about the "Fallen Angel" song as it not seem to fit. Once I saw the show and got all the Dialog and Staging, all fell into place. Sometimes younger folks know the movie "Grease" (as it is on all the time) so I tell them about the theme song being by Frankie Valli. I love that fact that the younger generation are discovering the music. We also convinced some folks that were heading to Las Vegas to see JB and they came back raving about the show. I try not to give too much away about the actual show but once I start talking it is hard to stop. Of course folks say that about me with any subject, hahaha!

   Posted 3 years ago #

3. Leanna
   Member

   I wouldn't prepare them at all. I went in stone cold and it was probably the best approach.

   Posted 3 years ago #

4. Audrey
   Member

   I also went in cold a month after the show opened in NY. That worked well for me, although who knows what it would have been like if I had gone in 'prepared'. But follow-up WAS important. If I hadn't found JLY's website (listed in the Playbill, thank goodness because I wouldn't have thought to google back then) which led me to the JB Blog, I probably would not have seen the show again.

   The concept of seeing a show twice or paying full price (rather than using Tkts on Bway) wasn't really in my consciousness, although we did uncharacteristically pay full price for JB. This show (and all that goes with it) was destined to be part of my life; I mean my husband and I had never gone to a Bway show - without the purpose of taking our daughter. Ever... until JB. How many times have we gone to JB since? Hopefully that number is yet to be determined.

   I look forward to enjoying the show for many years to come AND encouraging lots and lots of 'first timers.'

   Posted 3 years ago #

5. Pipalina
   Member

   I saw the London show for the first time with my family and went in "cold" ... like earlier comments, I knew about Grease and there were some songs that I knew from my teenage years but I remember my sister saying to me at the intermission ... "surely thats all the songs, what else is there to sing..." and of course we knew two of the main ones but couldn't think of any other major hits ... of course when you hear the songs you say "goodness, did they record/write/produce" that one and what it does mean is that you need a repeat trip to enjoy the whole experience again... and again... and again... and the rest they say... is history!

   Posted 3 years ago #

6. mrsvalli
   Member

   Honestly, I don't think going in cold is a bad idea at all. I had only see the Tony's performance over a year before I saw it, and I only vaguely knew the songs. I often like knowing the songs and even plot before a show, but I think Jersey Boys is a show that still works really well, even going in cold.

   Posted 3 years ago #

7. boy0210
   Member

   Going in unprepared/stone cold is kinda like racking up a PERSONAL FIRST. You'll be hypnotized and mesmerized. Afterwards, you'll recall, it ended much too soon.

   Posted 3 years ago #

8. Pipalina
   Member

   ... and you may feel a rush like a rolling ball of thunder which could well spin you round ...

   Posted 3 years ago #

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