Thanks for your comments. Are you, in fact, the bar owner from Cheers.

The phrase ‘youth is wasted on the young’ was in fact delivered by George Bernard Shaw….when he was seven.

Don’t be such a snob. Surely, even if Marina is a young journalist, it’s good that we have such ‘young’ people still trying to get ‘cultural’ pursuits (albeit the Jersey Boys) out into the public domain.

Mega-Success of Jersey Boys Spawns New Tuners

Here it is:
http://onbroadwaytonight.com/news/article/050334.html

New York – With Jersey Boys currently selling out nightly on both
coasts, and plans for the show to tour this country and open in
London by this time next year, rival producers are beginning to mine
the show’s formula to showcase other behind the scenes stories in
hopes of striking pay dirt. Some examples of productions currently
in development:

Mersey Boys – The clubs of Hamburg, Germany and the gritty landscape
surrounding the Mersey River in Liverpool provide the backdrop as the
Mersey Beat comes to life in the swinging 60s. Represented in this
musical tale are, among others, Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas,
Cilla Black, The Swinging Blue Jeans, The Fourmost and, of course,
The Beatles.

Scene highlights:
• Young Gerry Marsden (Gerry and The Pacemakers) sneaks into St.
Luke’s Church with his pals, claiming he’s “ready to play a bigger
room.” Song: “You’ll Never Walk Alone”

• After a performance one night, all four guys are caught with their
girl friends on the fourteenth green at Bootle Golf Course and are
hauled before the magistrate. To prove they are really
professionals, he gives them fifteen minutes to come up with a song
about the incident. They write two.
Songs: “I Don’t Play Golf, But Tonight I Got A Hole In
One” “(Ain’t That) Par For The Course”

Audience members in the orchestra section are encouraged to rattle
their jewelry. All others may applaud.

Circe Boys – Brought to exuberant life is the ancient tale of sailors
who were lured in and drugged by the beautiful daughter of Helios
(The Sun).

Featured role is that of Odysseus, the leader of the crew. He
obtains a special medicine from Hermes, the fleet messenger of the
gods, which wards off the effects of Circe’s potions. He then frees
his men, who had been turned into pigs to be fattened for slaughter.

Song highlights:
“The Other White Meat” – Circe
“Shakin’ My Bacon Bits” – The Crew
“Speedo” – Hermes
“Walking On Sunshine” – All

Hershey Boys – Details the hard times and multiple business failures
of Lancaster, PA’s own Milton Hershey, who would eventually find the
recipe for sweet success at age 45 after standing up to “Gyp” Zook,
the boss of the Amish mob. Wanting to give back to his community,
and believing that good works are also good business, in 1909 he
founds The Milton Hershey School to help unfortunate boys (and
girls).

Song highlights:
“It’s In His Kiss” – Mrs. Hershey
“Where Else Does The Air Smell This Sweet?” – Milton and the Hershey-
ettes
“I’m Nuts About You” – Milton Hershey School Boys Choir
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Regards, George

Actually I have been brushing up on my accordion. I wanna be ready to audition when Elice and Brickman come out with their next project, JERRY’S BOYS – The Story of Gary Lewis and the Playboys.

Every Journalist should have a collection of reference books on the subjects they write about. Using Google or Wikipedia to look up everything often leads to incomplete information and isn’t always efficient. If I were writing about popular recorded music and musicians, the single most useful book I would have in my reference library would be “Top Pop Singles” by Joel Whitburn. He also has many related publications. I often use it to reference things I post here. For digging into rare uncharted recordings like “My Mother’s Eyes”, Goldmine record collectors’ publications are a good choice.