Jersey Boys Review: Critics Summary

Jersey Boys the Musical has taken Broadway by storm as critics & fans with Jersey Boys tickets can’t stop raving!

Jersey Boys: About the Musical
Since its Broadway debut in November 2005, Jersey Boys tickets have served up a magical production chronicling the story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons. Fans with Jersey Boys tickets are taken on a journey back in time as four blue-collar kids rise from the streets of New Jersey to pop superstardom. Jersey Boys tickets feature unforgettable Frankie Vallie & The Four Seasons songs, including “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” “Sherry,” “Oh, What a Night,” and much more.

Jersey Boys: Show’s Success
Along with positive reviews from critics and fans with Jersey Boys tickets, Jersey Boys The Musical has garnered many coveted awards. With Jersey Boys tickets, you will see why the musical won the 2006 Tony Awards for “Best Musical,” “Best Actor in a Musical,” “Best Featured Actor in a Musical,” “Best Lighting Design of a Musical,” along with being nominated for a handful of other Tony Awards. Jersey Boys The Musical also scored a Grammy Award for “Best Show Album.” Now, fans can buy Jersey Boys tickets to see this award-winning musical on tour, with productions and tour dates in cities from Chicago to Las Vegas, Toronto to New York, and beyond!

Jersey Boys: Critics & Reviews
Fans are crazy about Jersey Boys and are still lining up to buy Jersey Boys tickets for shows on Broadway and cities across the country. Find out what critics and theatre reviewers are saying about Jersey Boys The Musical on Broadway:

Ben Brantley, The New York Times:

• Unlike the recent Broadway flops "Good Vibrations" (the Beach Boys show), "All Shook Up" (the Elvis show) and "Lennon" (you figure it out), "Jersey Boys" has the advantage of featuring singers that actually sound like the singers they are portraying and a technology-enhanced band that approximates the original sound of their music.”
• “The [Jersey Boys’] straightforward biographical approach is a relief after the hagiography of "Lennon" and the clunky fantasy story lines, inspired by the perversely inimitable "Mamma Mia!" (the Abba show), of "Good Vibrations" and "All Shook Up."
• Mr. Brickman […] and Mr. Elice provide some likably sassy dialogue as they chart the evolution of their main characters from street kids in the urban wastelands of New Jersey to pop gods enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.”
• “But once the Four Seasons classics are rolled out, every other pair of shoulders in the house starts a-twitchin'. With their three-part-harmony behind Mr. Valli's hearty falsetto, the group's songs remain exasperatingly infectious.”

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David Finkle, Theater Mania:

• “[Jersey Boys has] got the Four Seasons songs, an astonishing string of melodic and melodramatic celebrations of adolescent emotion that make this show a highly appealing oldies concert.”
• “‘Ragdoll,’ ‘Sherry,’ ‘Big Girls Don't Cry,’ ‘Walk Like a Man,’ ‘Let's Hang On (To What We've Got),’ ‘Dawn (Go Away),’ ‘Can't Take My Eyes Off of You,’ ‘Working My Way Back to You,’ ‘Oh What a Night’ -- many of them by the golden-eared Crewe/Gaudio team -- are given Top 40 treatment.”
• “The multitudes of other-side-of-the-Hudson folks who for years have been gloating about having Giants Stadium and New York football teams on Meadowlands territory now have something else to gloat about: They've got Jersey Boys on Broadway, where it could remain for quite some time.”

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Jeremy McCarter, New York Magazine:

• “Jersey Boys, the musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, is surprisingly satisfying. You got a problem with that?”
• “When the band played hits like “Sherry,” or made explicit reference to their Jersey roots, it sounded like a riot was unfolding in the mezzanine.”
• “Admire first the deftness of the storytelling by librettists Marshall Brickman (who co-wrote Annie Hall) and Rick Elice.”
• “The real source of the show’s power—obvious as it sounds—is the songs.”

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Bob Verini, Variety.com:

• “Unlike most catalog shows, "Jersey Boys" features a strong plot -- as sagas go, the rise, hard times and ultimate triumph of a group of friends in common cause is tough to beat -- and even more importantly, a parade of hit songs emblematic of a generation.”
• “Even those too young to have been of that generation respond to the forthright appeal to ‘Walk Like a Man,’ ‘Stay,’ or ‘Let's Hang On (To What We've Got).’ The unique combination of ingredients creates genuine show business magic […].”
• “Much of ‘Jersey Boys’ is a Four Seasons concert, duly supported by Howell Binkley's rock arena lighting and a sound system […].”

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