Vegas Jersey Boys Are Cover Boys in ‘What’s On’ Magazine & Time to Meet the Jersey Girls!
November 17th, 2010
Although the JERSEY BOYS Vegas Four Seasons are on the cover of the current “What’s On” magazine, reporter Megan Riggs has a fabulous feature on the guys’ castmates–the Jersey Girls–Nikka Wahl, Mackenzie Bell, and Jamie Karen, who play nearly 50 roles at each show. Here’s a preview:
Nikka Wahl: With the Vegas cast since December 2009, Wahl plays 16 characters, including Valli’s daughter Francine.
What’s On: Who is your favorite character that you play?
Nikka: Out of the characters that I play, since Francine has only one scene with her father, I tend to go for the more comedic side, so my favorite is Nick’s date when I go to the church and get to act like a floozy. I do enjoy that.
Mackenzie Bell: With the Vegas cast since August, having previously been part of the Chicago company, Bell plays 17 characters, including Valli’s girlfriend Lorraine.
What’s On: What’s your favorite costume?
Mackenzie: My favorite costume in the show is my breakup scene with Frankie as Lorraine and it’s just this beautiful, handmade, hand-fitted to me, this beautiful cowl neck navy dress and it’s so classy, and I feel so in character when I put it on. And it makes me have curves [Laughs].
Jamie Karen: With the show for six months, Karen plays 14 characters, including Valli’s wife Mary Delgado, a role she also played for a year on the national tour of Jersey Boys.
WO: What’s your toughest costume change?
Jamie: The most daunting is the change from an Angel into the Mary family scene. I actually get undressed in the backseat of the car during the scene. The Bob Gaudio character unzips me, I take off my shoes, my gloves, I stick them in my shoes, I go flying off stage and I have 10 seconds to get back onstage in a robe, wig. [It’s a totally] new character, but it works every night.
Visit Whats-on.com for the full feature.
