Last night I saw Jersey Boys in London at the Prince Edward Theatre. It was a fairly spur of the moment thing. For my birthday on Friday, the Chickbeans had given me some money to do as I liked with. I was going up to London on Saturday afternoon for a friend's party so thought it might be nice as I would be paying the train fair anyway to combine the trip with theatre visit in the evening. I looked at the list of things that were on that I had been wanting to see for a while and had not got around to. Jersey Boys fit the bill and John was able to get us tickets.
I had heard that it had one lots of awards in its day and had good reviews and although I hadn't really heard of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, I thought it would be one of those where I recognised a lot of the music and indeed it was. It told the story of their formation and they performed lots of songs. I realised there are two ways of doing musicals with music group songs. There is the Buddy Holly way where you reenact the band's story and people play the people in the band, or there's the Abba version where you use the songs to fit into a made up story like Mamma Mia. Jersey Boys was the former sort. I don't think I definitively like either better, it depends on the particular show.
One of my favourite bits of this one was the way the drum kit kept on coming up and out of a whole in the stage with the drummer playing and then going back down inside!!
An enjoyable evening, though didn't find myself totally loving it.
No comments:
Post a Comment