Preview of Bob Gaudio’s Interview on Jacksonville.com!
March 12th, 2012
Bob Gaudio (Photo Credit: J.T. Macmillan Photography)
Charlie Patton has a terrific interview with the legendary Bob Gaudio, who talks about JERSEY BOYS and life on the stage as an original member of The Four Seasons. Here’s a preview:
Sometimes Bob Gaudio sits in a theater watching “Jersey Boys†and lets himself enjoy the music and the story the way any audience member would do.“That’s fun,†Gaudio said in a recent interview.
But it wasn’t all fun while it was happening, the now 70-year-old musician said. He was a founding member of the Four Seasons, the musical group whose story is told in “Jersey Boys,†the 2006 winner of the Tony Award for best musical, which comes to the Moran Theater in the Times-Union Center for 24 performances beginning Tuesday.
Gaudio likes to quote a line attributed in “Jersey Boys†to his band mate Nick Massi: “You sell 100 million records, you see how you handle it.â€
“It was not an easy time,†said Gaudio, who gets a “music by†credit on “Jersey Boys,†and either wrote or co-wrote, with producer Bob Crewe, most of the Four Seasons songs. “We pretty much took some bruises, financially, mentally, damage to our families. It’s a tough life … It was not a fun time other than when the lights went on.â€
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