FRANKIE VALLI
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Http://www.broadwaycares.org Before they became The 4 Seasons, Belleville’s bad boys made music together and had high hopes for where that music would take them. Frankie Valli (“with an ‘i’”) began as Frankie Castelluccio. It’s that young man we meet early in the show – in “spring,” to hear Jess Goldstein talk about the concept of “seasons” that informed his overall design/color-scheme for the show. Spring in the 1950s to be more specific. While the costumes later in the show reflect the sartorial influences of the group’s mob connections, those costumes early on reflect the sartorial influences of living in a “scruffy, working class” Newark suburb. Made from fabric used for the Broadway Frankie, Frankie Bear’s silky camp shirt is open at the collar. It has wide mauve and black vertical stripes with small white diamonds embroidered in and four buttons up the front. This shirt is worn over unbelted blue jeans. On his feet are white cotton, ribbed socks and white-toed blue sneakers; on his head, a black-haired wig; and on his right wrist, a silver ID bracelet engraved “Frankie.” Made in Italy. Really. To (lovingly) rewrite the source, “Our eyes adore him!”
ORIGINAL DESIGNER: JESS GOLDSTEIN
BROADWAY BEAR CREATED BY: ROSI ZINGALES OF STUDIO ROUGE
Signed by: John Lloyd Young, Jess Goldstein and Frankie Valli
Updated On: 5/14/06 at 11:31 PM