Jersey Boys Makes EW’s Top 10 Stage of 2005!
December 25th, 2005Jersey Boys is #7 on Entertainment Weekly’s Top 10 Stage of 2005! In the year-end double issue, here’s what was said about the Broadway smash hit musical:
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If shows based on the songs and/or lives of the Beach Boys, Elvis, and John Lennon couldn’t cut it, why would one on the admittedly lesser Four Seasons? Chalk up Boys’ left-field accomplishment to an absorbing backstory (the Mob banished one of them to Vegas?), deft staging (by Des McAnuff, the man behind Broadway’s The Who’s Tommy), a spot-on cast, and one AM-heyday classic after another—from “Sherry” to “December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)”—that reminds you they were the Beach Boys, East Coast division.
Here’s EW’s Top 10 list:
- Sweeney Todd
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
- Orson’s Shadow
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- The Pillowman
- Jersey Boys
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
- After Ashley
- The Ruby Sunrise
