Jersey Boys assessment – Four Seasons musical can have you Beggin’ for extra

The West End revival of Broadway’s Jersey Boys has been rebooted with a brand new forged as Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons after a few years again in London.

This paint-by-numbers music biopic rise and fall storyline is nothing new, however the jukebox best hits are a real delight.

This is very because of Luke Suri masterfully dealing with Valli’s difficult falsetto all through.

Watching his lead, Karl James Wilson’s Nick Massi, Peter Nash’s Tommy De Vito and Declan Egan’s Bob Gaudio belt out the likes of Oh What A Night, Sherry and Beggin’ whereas dancing in excellent time could be very spectacular. It’s only a disgrace we not often had a tune in full.

As slick as their strikes and harmonies although are the seamless switches between scenes, as we witnessed the unique Four Seasons come collectively and hit the massive time.

The primary quartet are understandably the main target all through however there’s not quite a bit for the supporting actresses to do apart from being love pursuits and extra dancers.

Also, being a smaller venue, this revival of Jersey Boys is carried out on a type of decreased staging with stairs and a metallic platform.

It’s a disgrace there’s no more to the surroundings than this and a few WordArt wording projected behind the forged appears a bit naff.

Nevertheless, the forged and band profit from it and problem the viewers to make use of their creativeness.

To be trustworthy, we had been all swept up within the sheer musical expertise and swiftness between scenes anyway.

Jersey Boys is reserving on the Trafalgar Theatre till January 28, 2024, here.