Farewell Jersey Boys!!!- Page 2
Farewell Jersey Boys!!!
Farewell Jersey Boys!!!#25
Posted: 9/6/16 at 11:18pm
Never had a single desire to see the show, but congrats to the cast and crew on such a fantastic run
Farewell Jersey Boys!!!#26
Posted: 9/6/16 at 11:20pm
I wonder how that fan who has seen the show 600 times, or some large sum, is holding up.
Farewell Jersey Boys!!!#27
Posted: 9/7/16 at 12:03am
I remember seeing it right before the Tonys in its first year and thinking it was directed focused and fast as a freight train. It was a great night of theatre.
Farewell Jersey Boys!!!#28
Posted: 9/7/16 at 12:47am
rosscoe(au) said: "Never had a single desire to see the show, but congrats to the cast and crew on such a fantastic run "
I share your sentiments.
I was at the Tony awards when they won. Their performance was exceptional but I still had no desire to see the show. I grew up in Philly. I know their story. And their music. I grew up on it. So I was not going to pay to see it. Just my.opinion. This is a theater I have not seen a show in so looking forward to seeing what comes in.
Farewell Jersey Boys!!!#29
Posted: 9/7/16 at 8:14am
brdwybound04 said: "The press release says Mark Ballas has taken a year off from DWTS, any chance he'd headline the JB tour following his Broadway run??
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More likely it's because the winter/spring season of DWTS usually starts in mid-January, so he couldn't do both. I think he's taken off time before for his music, right? Maybe he'll just take off to do that.
I did know this was coming (and mentioned it on another thread that Kinky's days are numbered too) but it's still really sad that it's really happening. Whether you know the story or not, the show is really excellent on so may levels. Still one of the most perfect books of a musical of the past decade.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
Farewell Jersey Boys!!!#30
Posted: 9/7/16 at 8:28am
I never took to this show. I saw it very early in its run, when a Frankie Valli understudy was on. He did not have the vocal chops to be covering this particular role. He cracked throughout the entire afternoon. Such a disappointment. I noticed shortly after that he was no longer understudying the role.
Farewell Jersey Boys!!!#31
Posted: 9/7/16 at 8:51pm
Quite a run.
Featured Actor Joined: 4/1/05
Farewell Jersey Boys!!!#32
Posted: 9/8/16 at 12:05am
Jersey Boys is one of my all time favorite shows!! I loved the original cast so much! John Lloyd Young, Christian Hoff, J. Robert Spencer and Daniel Reichard were all fantastic and deserved every accolade they received. They were absolutely wonderful as were the casts that came after them. I particularly enjoyed Dominic Scaglione Jr. as Frankie, Andy Karl as Tommy, Matt Bogart as Nick and both Quinn VanAntwerp and Drew Gehling as Bob. I am hoping to see it once or twice more before it goes. It had a great run and I am sorry to see it go. They will be missed.
Farewell Jersey Boys!!!#33
Posted: 9/8/16 at 2:03am
Wow, another one of the long runners closing... How sad. I was confused by the thread about what's next for the August Wilson, but I didn't click on it. Wow.
Farewell Jersey Boys!!!#34
Posted: 9/8/16 at 2:54am
rosscoe(au) said: "Never had a single desire to see the show, but congrats to the cast and crew on such a fantastic run
it was a solid show, with good book and direction. Des is not a great director but this somehow worked for him
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Farewell Jersey Boys!!!#35
Posted: 9/10/16 at 9:16pm
I only saw it on tour, and got rush tickets in the front row for one of its many stops in San Francisco. My wife absolutely loved it, and I enjoyed it too in spite of my bias against jukebox musicals. It's almost certainly the most successful example of the genre, and I was thinking about why it seemed to work better than Beautiful, which we saw recently on tour. The "characters" just seemed more vivid and memorable, and it felt more like an actual story, with better humor and more pathos.
Understudy Joined: 6/25/08
Farewell Jersey Boys!!!#36
Posted: 9/11/16 at 11:33am
I saw this show in its first year, I was immediately turned off of it by the yelling and screaming throughout the audience. That reaction is for a concert not theatre. I can and do understand the excitement of live theatre, but this was out of control.
Farewell Jersey Boys!!!#37
Posted: 9/11/16 at 11:42am
I'm sure it'll be like that at closing night, but having attended the 5th and 10th anniversary performances of Jersey Boys, there wasn't anything quite like that. (I've experienced it at other shows, though, and it is annoying and can see how it's a turn-off.)
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/12
Farewell Jersey Boys!!!#38
Posted: 9/11/16 at 12:14pm
Sad to see it close but it had a great run and ran longer than I thought it would.
Farewell Jersey Boys!!!#39
Posted: 9/11/16 at 2:38pm
Loved and know most of the music but the show itself left no impression except 'glad that's all over'..
Think my preference is more for the music than the 'warts and all' of the personalities so maybe concerts are the way to go for me now---N0--too many screaming wanna-a-bees.
Stay at home? but where's the excitement in all that dilemma?
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