Jersey Boys National Tour Full of High Notes!
December 11th, 2006InsideBayArea.com’s Chad Jones notes that the national tour kick off of the Tony Award-winning Jersey Boys at the Curran Theatre consisted of one great high note after another! Here’s a bit of what Jones had to say:
Seriously, who knew the story of how four goombahs from New Jersey became Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons was the stuff of Broadway musicals?
Well, it is. And what’s more, the musical “Jersey Boys,” which opened its national tour Sunday at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre, is every bit as good as you’ve heard it is.
Much praise has been heaped on the award-winning Four Seasons on Broadway, but it’s hard to imagine anyone better than the guys in the touring cast.
Michael Ingersoll is Nick Massi, the quieter, classier one; Deven May is Tommy DeVito, the gambler and de facto older brother; Erich Bergen is Bob Gaudio, the musical mastermind; and Christopher Kale Jones is Frankie Valli, the voice.
On opening night, during the curtain call, the three surviving Seasons — Valli, Gaudio and DeVito — joined their theatrical counterparts for a bow. As much as the audience enjoyed “Jersey Boys,” it was nice to be reminded that these guys lived the story and then some.
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