Comments on: Rick Elice’s Winding Road to Jersey

By: Linda/Tiggerbelle

Linda/Tiggerbelle — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:27:56 +0000

Hi Rick,

What a great article. This truly could not have happened to a nicer person. It’s been so gratifying and refreshing to see and experience the success of Jersey Boys. We are all so happy for your accomplishment and look forward to your future projects. You have always been so gracious and kind at the many fan events that you attend. Your continued support for the JB cast even after they leave the show is remarkable. We have so much respect for you. I feel very privileged to have met you.

By: Beverley Micciche

Beverley Micciche — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:42:51 +0000

Rick,
I too want to thank you for Jersey Boys. I have seen it multiple times and then some and still laugh out loud at the lines. You are right about the show lifting people’s spirits and having them leave the theater upbeat with smiling faces. That’s one reason why I keep going. Working all week, but knowing that I am able to see Jersey Boys on the weekend makes the week go faster and the work a little easier. I also enjoyed talking with you on several occasions and Howard is right when he says how you remember the names of people you meet! I look forward to your next project on Broadway.

By: GLADYS MARLIN

GLADYS MARLIN — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:49:28 +0000

I ditto everyone elses remarks. God Bless all of those who gave us “Jersey Boys”

By: LindaL

LindaL — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:01:29 +0000

Rick: I echo all those previously comments. I hope you are like that bunny on TV, you just keep going and going and going. There’s a whole heckuva a lot of talent with that little bit of luck life threw at you. Thanks for the memories we all share and I wish enormous continued success.

By: stubbleyou

stubbleyou — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:49:10 +0000

Very nice essay. I don’t wanna sound, y’know – redundant – so I’ll just make this one point: Rick recalls “I remember the box office at La Jolla telling us, after five previews of Jersey Boys, that they were inundated with repeat customers coming back with friends.” What’s amazing is that here we are over four years later and the same thing is still going on, strong. Not only do many fans of Jersey Boys keep coming back like recidivists at Rahway State Correctional Facility, but they (okay, “we”) relish bringing first and second-timers along with. It reminds me of that black-and-white instructional film they showed us in high school science illustrating how a nuclear reaction works: There was a roomful of mousetraps, each loaded with two ping-pong balls. Then the narrator threw just one ball into the room, which triggered one trap, which then flung its two balls onto two other traps, and so on, and so on. Only I don’t think JB is even anywhere near its half-life. Better legs than Betty Grable and Ann Miller combined.

PS Rick’s modesty in attributing much of his success to luck recalls the central theme of Woody Allen’s “Match Point,” a film I highly recommend to those who like to ponder such things.