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JERSEY BOYS
JERSEY BOYS is music history! 
Not only is it the story about Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, those four boys from New Jersey who became rock and roll icons, but this musical set records as one of the longest running Broadway shows with its 11 year run from 2005 to 2017.
Bringing this legend to life at the National Theater are Jon Hacker who leads as Frankie Valli with Eric Chambliss as Bob Gaudio (who also wrote the musical), Corey Greenan as Tommy DeVito  and Michael Milton as Nick Massi.

 At the performance I saw at the National Theater, most of the audience was probably not born when Valli made his first recordings in the 1950s. This did not stop anyone from swaying, cheering and clapping at some of the greatest sounds of American popular music ever.
One great moment in the show is when the group make the charts with selling 3 million records.  Today a YouTube of one of their songs has multi millions of viewers.
Valli himself is continuing to perform all over the country but what is here, right now at the National Theatre, is the musical that tells the ups and downs of how it all came to be.
What is the best thing the best thing to say about this show and the wonderful cast touring with it now, is that days after, you can still hear the music. 
Kidos to the wonderful  ensemble playing multiple roles: Andrés Acosta, Justin Albinder, Ashley Bruce, Kenneth Quinney Francoeur, Katie Goffman, Connor Lyon, Kevin Patrick Martin, Sean McGee, Hamilton Moore, Bruno Vida, and Amy Weaver.
National Theatre, Washington DC, December 2019
PHOTO CREDIT Walk Like a Man  (l to r) Jon Hacker, Eric Chambliss, Corey Greenan and Michael Milton Photo: Joan Marcus

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