Jersey Boys
Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice (Book)
Bob Gaudio (Music); Bob Crewe (Lyrics)
Palo Alto Players
Let it be known by anyone and everyone who has seen once, twice, or a dozen times Jersey Boys in New York, London, or on touring stages throughout the country and abroad that seeing the 2005, multi-Tony-award-winning juke-box hit one more time in a locally produced, smaller stage setting is maybe even better — especially when in the hands of a company like Palo Alto Players that year in, year out excels in producing their own award-worthy musicals. With voices that swoon, croon, glide, and glow and with movements of hips, heads, single fingers and total torsos synchronized with split-second speed, the Palo Alto Players cast is wowing from beginning to end. Along the way, the engaging, documentary-style story of the ups and downs of The Four Seasons (book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice) continues to be compelling whether on the first or the fifth hearing. And who does not want to hear again and again the thirty-plus songs (Bob Gaudio, music, and Bob Crewe, lyrics) that sold over 175 million records before any of the original Seasons were thirty years old?
Please continue to Talkin’Broadway for the rest of my review.
Rating: 5-E
A Theatre Eddys Best Bet Production
The Jersey Boys continues through May 4, 2025,, in in a two-hour, forty-minute (with one intermission) by Palo Alto Players at Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA. Tickets are available online at www.paplayers.org or by calling the Box Office at 650-329-0891.
Photo Credit: Scott Lask
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