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Rick Elice Talks About The Jersey Boys Phenomenon
“At that moment the audience has forgotten they’re watching four actors and they root for these four guys as though they really are The Four Seasons in their youth,” says Rick Elice, one of the show’s book writers. “The response is so sincere and enthusiastic and over the top that it’s impossible to believe anything else.” While other musicals have tried to capitalize on a group’s catalog of songs by integrating them into the plot, the writers agreed with director Des McAnuff that their staging should be presentational, as if The Four Seasons were performing the songs to an audience, not singing them from one character to another. “In the first act the songs are presented pretty much chronologically, as they took place within the life of the band,” explains Elice. “In the second act the music is more cunningly chosen to reflect either directly or by contrast what the band is going through at the point where things start to fall apart.” As members leave the group one by one, it’s to a medley of “Stay,” “Let’s Hang On (To What We’ve Got),” “Opus 17 (Don’t You Worry ’Bout Me)” and “Bye, Bye, Baby.” Elice recounts, “It was the archetypal American rags-to-riches story: You start with nothing, achieve success and then try to navigate your life through the waters of success.” Jersey Boys plays at The Palazzo Resort-Hotel-Casino. For information on tickets and performance times, visit JerseyBoysInfo.com.
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Forget about show-stopping finales. In Jersey Boys, the smash-hit musical about the rise and fall of The Four Seasons, the pinnacle of excitement comes about 45 minutes into the first act. That’s when back-to-back presentations of three of the group’s biggest hits — “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry” and “Walk Like a Man” — are greeted with enough thunderous applause to start a downpour.