Roya Nikkhah
Sunday March 23, 2008
West End Hit Owes Mafia a Favour
The musical Jersey Boys has made Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons the toast of the West End, winning them rave reviews and standing ovations. Read more...
Wednesday March 19, 2008
Oh what a night of magical memories.
A musical about four no-hoper Italian-American kids, high school dropouts from the wrong side of town, the type you would take a baseball bat to if they got near your daughter and who hang out with the Mob? Read more...
Wednesday March 19, 2008
Let's hear it for the Boys.
Jersey Boys is a blue-collar, meat-and-potatoes, straight-up-no-chaser kind of show, and I mean that as a compliment. It has a quality you rarely find in musicals - gritty honesty - as well as the best collection of pop hits since Mamma Mia! Read more...
David Gritten
Wednesday February 27, 2008
For those too young to recall, it is hard to convey how huge the Four Seasons were when they first emerged from New Jersey in 1963 - between the end of rock and roll's first flush and the "invasion" of America by British groups. Read more...
Bob Stanley
Friday August 3, 2007
For years now, it's been easy to forget The Four Seasons ever existed, even though, as Nik Cohn once said, if aliens landed and you had three minutes to explain the idiot joy of pop music to them, you'd only have to play them "Sherry", "Rag Doll" or "Big Girls Don't Cry". Read more...