When the Backstage article was written and prior to his new contract he was doing 8 shows or 7 shows a week (always allowed to take off one a week, if he needed to, because of the massive amounts of press the show was doing)...he was handling the 8 show a week schedule beautifully until he had some illnesses, which was discovered as being reflux, and now that he knows what the problem was, he took the right medications and changed his diet accordingly. That being said, his new contract, and the tour Frankie's contract is now a 6 show a week schedule.
Moreso, if you saw the show, actor, you would know that he sings pretty much the majority of the score...lead vocal on most songs, and several solos, which does in fact, add up to more singing than Christine...throw in the combination of moving the voice from a baritone sound up to many songs (if not most) jumping into a high falsetto. Actor, do you sing? Have you ever sung? Do me a favor, sing along with the JERSEY BOYS cast album everyday, how does your voice hold up?
He doesn't just sing some of the songs, like Christine in PHANTOM, who has always had a 6 show schedule, sings in 10 songs (many which are duets or snipits) in a solid consistant lyric soprano, with at least one prerecorded section.
Frankie sings in 27 songs, yes, some are very short, and some are backup, but most are lead vocal for many songs in a row. In fact, ALL of the songs in ACT 2, are sung by Frankie. Every single song, like a concert...including the long "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You", which has many belted sections. In between the concert sections of the show, he is in almost every single scene and he narrates a large section of ACT 2, long spoken passassages. Does Christine do that? No, Phantom has some dialogue, but is minimal in comparison.
I am confused, Actor, how can you say you saw JERSEY BOYS and not have noticed the amount of singing Frankie does in the show?
Seriously, look at the list of songs, in ACT 2 Alone "Big Man in Town", "Beggin'", "Stay". "Let's Hang On", "Opus 17", "Bye Bye Baby", "Cmon Marianne", "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You", "Working My Way Back to You", "Fallen Angel", "Ragdoll", "Who Loves You"...and he sings alone, or lead vocal in all of those songs...12 sings in ACT 2 alone, that is already more than Christine sings in all of Phantom, not to forget that in ACT 1 he sings "Sherry", "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Walk Like a Man", "My Eyes Adored You" and "Dawn" practically back to back. I haven't even included the solos earlier in the show, like "I'm in the Mood for Love", "Sunday Kind of Love" and "Moody's Mood"...
Kind of crazy that you didn't notice all of the singing he is doing, isn't it?
Updated On: 12/21/06 at 06:16 PM
