Jersey Boys Tickets:10 recommendations
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The Telegraph
Jersey Boys: Let's Hear it for the boys
It has a quality you rarely find in musicals - gritty honesty - as well as the best collection of pop hits since Mamma Mia! Jukebox musicals normally get a rough ride from the critics, but Jersey Boys, built on the hits of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, emphatically deserves to thrive here as it has already done in New York.
The Times
Compendium shows, meaning musicals whose plots are usually an excuse to douse the ears of nostalgia freaks with archaic hits, aren’t my favourite tipple.
But there’s good reason why Jersey Boys is about to enter its third year on Broadway and is now crossing the pond. It has the character, the narrative interest and the sense of place – as the backcloth indicates, the industrial badlands west of the Hudson River – to rise way above its genre.
