The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly (April 27/May 4), a double issue with Spider-Man on the cover, talks about JERSEY BOYS in a sidebar (p. 121). Above the text is a pic of JLY as Frankie. Here's what it says (hope I don't get in trouble for posting the blurb in its entirety):
ASK THE CRITIC
Owen Gleiberman
Q: With HAIRSPRAY hitting theatres this summer, Sweeney Todd already in production, and Mamma Mia about to roll, what Broadway musical, past or present, would you like to see get the Hollywood treatment?
A: On stage, JERSEY BOYS (above), is the greatest jukebox musical--ever. Yet it didn't strike me, at first, as a likely candidate for a movie makeover. It's not really a conventional biopic of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. It's more like a Behind the Music episode miraculously turned into a spinning, whirling rock-history fantasia. Yet the more I thought about it, the more I realized that what's magical about Jersey Boys could, with the proper innovative treatment, result in a new kind of movie musical: a docu-pop kaleidoscope that takes the audience on a star-spangled nostalgic head trip. The key test for jukebox musicals will, of course, be Mamma Mia!, with its flimsy plot and sublime songs. If ABBA can draw significant crowds, I wouldn't count out the Four Seasons working their way back to you on the big screen.
Updated On: 4/21/07 at 08:26 PM
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