Joisey Boiys!

Jersey Boys (or Joisey Boiys when pronounced with a New Jersey accent) is a musical based on the life stories of the original line up of The Four Seasons (Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, and Nick Massi) and features their original songs plus others from that era (late 50s-early 60s - through disco etc). Pooey has been raaaaaaaaaaaaving about this musical for about...oh, at least since 2007 because I attempted to go see it while I was in NYC - it was sold out :(.

We finally managed to see it together (Pooey saw it twice in London) with Spuey and Ma & Pa to boot - family outing! Our outing kicked off with a drive into town, during which Pooey primed her iPhone to play the soundtrack to the musical to get us into the mood - it worked for me! Then to Chinatown for lunch at New Kum Dem (mmm, chicken ribs), and then walking around because Ma&Pa hadn't been around there in years. We then slowly walked up the hill to the eastern end of town to the theatre and settled in...

AND IT WAS AWESOME!!! For a plot summary and example of the music, watch this vid of a medly performance the original Broadway cast did on Letterman.

Fun yeah? Me and Pooey sang along with the numbers (Spuey laughed at us) -but we weren't the only ones! Oh no! Sitting in the theatre, it was MASS KARAOKE!!! Here are some more songs from a medly performance by the London cast!

(If you go to the comments, williamsethparker has written 'The BackStreet Boys ain't got shit on them! :P')

Heheheh. I figure I need to be more critical about the things I watch. Hmmmm....my main criticism I think would be the tall guy in front of me blocking the view and who kept moving his head around. Otherwise I was quite happy with the performers even though we didn't get the main lead Frankie - the use of falsetto must be quite vocally draining so they rotate it. But he was still good! Oh, the guy playing Nick's Joisey accent slipped a few times but that's negligible. Oh! I did want to know how they controlled the drum sets as they moved around the set! Probably remote controlled.

Anyway, I think Jersey Boys was worthy of all the kudos it's garnered (2006 Tony Award for Best Musical among the awards!) and if you're in a city where it's showing go out and see this show!