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Jersey Boys (Curve Theatre, Leicester, Personal)

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🌟 Jersey Boys 🌟 6 May 2023 at 2:15pm at Leicester Curve ★★★★★ Jersey Boys whirls through the story of the rising talents that came to be known as the Four Seasons, with sensation Frankie Valli leading the group through their turbulent stardom. The thing that was most pleasing about this biographical production was its precision to detail and how well they honour the stories of the boys, without misbalancing any of the central 4's importance in the group. With a story that began very fast-paced, the production very quickly found it's feet, and for me just got stronger and stronger as it progressed. The structure of the show itself is very clever, gifting each of the four members an element of narration, one per 'season' as their career's face highs and hurdles. Opening the 'spring' season was Dalton Wood as Tommy DeVito, gifting the role a very charismatic attitude, which really solidified Tommy's role as a leader of the morphing group. Though perhaps t