Jersey Boys London — Page 2

Yes it's a great deal -I posted about this back in September. As you'll see from my experience, you can get great seats in the stalls too. It depends on the day of course -you might not get offered £60 seats it depends on availability. But a wet November Monday should be a good bet

https://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?boardid=3&boardname=bway&thread=977786#3647178

I have to say that after seeing the show a couple of weeks ago with no understudies, I throughouly enjoyed it. The cast was extremely strong, and actually were able to pull of the american accents. The house was pretty full, looked like a decent wednesday night to me, and still went wild for the show. Nice to see this show that I couldn't even get tickets to in the US.

I will be coming over to London and want to see Jersey Boys, can anyone help me out on how I might get some cheaper tickets ( I am a student still ).
Thanks you

Not sure if the theatre do student discount tickets but
you can get front row seats for £21:50 which includes
booking fee. They are cheaper than normal as the seats
are classed as a restricted view. The stage is high but
you dont really miss anything. For the best view on the
front row try and book seat numbers from 12-20

At first you had to get them on the day from the
box office, but now you can pre-book them on-line
best to book them asap as they tend to go very quick

I finally caught up with Jersey Boys this weekend. Jye Frasca was on as Frankie Valli, but the other three leads were the original cast. At first I thought I was looking in the US mirror at Billy Elliot with the talk of how everyone wants to get out of the local town due to the limited options available there, and how the performimg arts are a way of doing so. But that's about as far as the comparison went and I quickly forgot about it.

Perhaps because The Four Seasons were chart music before my time it didn't seem like a jukebox musical. Or perhaps its because of the well written book that defined character, built tension and gave a sense of progression very well. The songs weren't allowed to hold things back even if they weren't fully integrated: I'm not surpised that the director, Des McAnuff, also directed Tommy. I really felt the frustrations of the group members with Tommy De Vito, and with Glenn Carter's acting expertise in the role he really made my flesh crawl. I don't understand why Frankie Valli is considered the leading role in this: I thought much of the drama of the piece came from the confrontation between Tommy and Bob Gaudio and again high praise for Stephen Ashfield bringing a third dimension to a character that could easily have had only two; ditto Philip Bulcock. I did think the portrayal of Bob Crewe drew on gay cliche that seemed at first funny but left a stale taste later (see my review of Spring Awakening).

So this ticked all the boxes and deserved its Olivier Award. But why was I the only person left sat in my seat at the clap-along finale? It just didn't give me that ultimate shot-in-the-arm feelgood fix that others have done.

Updated On: 4/27/09 at 01:33 PM

And I'm sure it's playing to the same capacity in Vegas, if that.

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I think our Broadway friends dont take in to account the seating capacity of the prince Edward 1700, and the August Wilson 1200

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I don't think I've been in the Prince Edward since Evita! It was a stunningly beautiful and very different interior - art deco(?) but warm and opulent instead of austere.

And I think my reluctance to get up at the end was pure ageism on my part - the theatre was full of silver tops enjoying themselves and I felt a bit out-numbered.

Mama will berate me for this, but I still can't muster enthusiasm to see this show- I just don't like the Four Seasons. By the way, who plays Vivaldi?

Same here. I was never a Four Seasons fan and can't even say I am now. But I've seen the show over 30 times, twice in London.

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Scripps..did you not ever see Mary Poppins!?

"Mama and Sam can fight over the rest!"
"Mama and Sam have already had the rest!"

i've only just read through this thread and didn't see them comments from last year! haha nothing changes does it

oh and to clarify Scripps, me and mama have deffinitely had the rest, and the chorus boys as well...