More Praise for JB in Seattle!
December 10th, 2007Jersey Boys, more than anything, feels like the Tony Award-winning “Behind the Music” musical. This one happens to be about The Four Seasons. When four blue-collar kids dodge prison to form a white doo wop band, meet up with producer Bob Crewe, and sell 175 million records worldwide before they’re 30, the announcer in your head automatically intones: “But things were about to go terribly, terribly wrong.” It’s undeniably satisfying.
Still, the story of Frankie Valli (Christopher Kale Jones), Bob Gaudio (Erich Bergen), Tommy DeVito (Deven May), and Nick Massi (Steve Gouveia) gets to you because it really is about Jersey boys, they really were an unlikely success, and they lived hard on the way up and on the way out. There’s not even a hint of the squeaky-clean — you’ll never hear “Oh, What A Night” the same way again — but it celebrates all the same an era of American life that’s receded, an era of people who couldn’t forget where they came from.
Read the full review on Seattlest.com.
