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Jarrod Spector (second from left) rehearses for "Jersey Boys" with (from left) Steve Gouveia, Andrew Gehling, Jeremy Kushnier. (See "Walk Like a Man.")
Walk like a man
Huntingdon Valley's Jarrod Spector is channeling Frankie Valli, as he has the primo role in the national tour of the Broadway hit Jersey Boys, the story of the Four Seasons. Spector, 26, is a Germantown Academy grad who went on to Princeton. "After two years, I realized a degree in economics wasn't going to give me the things in life I wanted," he says. Spector joins the show Friday in San Francisco and then heads to Chicago; no Philly date has been set. Spector says he tries to capture "this raw, powerful, scorching falsetto that no one else has ever had." When he met Valli backstage, he says, "he looked at me in the face and put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'You don't be intimidated. If you need me, you call me on the phone.' "
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