Led by Valli’s falsetto voice, The Four Seasons’ hits include five No. When you have one protagonist, you’re forced to be behind that one guy, but with each guy getting to tell his perspective, the audience can chose which one to get behind.” “I think that’s a great part of this show. “We can sometimes tell when a crowd identifies more with one of the Seasons than the others,” he says. Using four narrators, Kappus says, gives audiences different options for picking a character to identify with. In addition to The Four Seasons’ rise to fame, the musical also covers such largely unknown aspects of their lives as Devito and Massi’s time served in prison during the 1950s DeVito’s attempt to seduce Valli’s girlfriend, Lorraine the group’s ties to New Jersey Mafia boss Gyp DeCarlo and the drug overdose death of Valli’s daughter, Francine. Structured, naturally, around the four seasons, each member of the group narrates a quarter of the show as “Jersey Boys” traces The Four Seasons from the group’s formation in the 1950s as The Four Lovers - and numerous other names - through its heyday of hits in the 1960s to the end of its hit-making run in the late ’70s. With music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe and book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, “Jersey Boys” opened on Broadway in 2005 and won four Tony Awards in 2006, including for Best Musical.
“In ‘Dawn,’ they say, ‘Dawn go away, I’m no good for you/Dawn go away, he’ll be good for you.’ It’s interesting to go back and see these links that they’re these kids from the neighborhood.” “I think they absolutely needed to be from Jersey, because if you go back and read the lyrics to their songs, it plays to blue-collar, working-class, which is where their families are from,” Cosgrove also says by telephone from North Charleston in a separate interview. “They didn’t have a lot of options, and that’s what their songs are about.”īoth Kappus and Nick Cosgrove, who plays Valli, point to the song “Dawn (Go Away)” as the quintessential example of that. “They weren’t just singing love songs and party songs,” Kappus says and adds that The Four Seasons sang about the type of people they knew, the same people who bought their records.
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