BWW Backstage: JERSEY BOYS
May 17, 2024
Oh what a night! Watch a video preview of Jersey Boys with an interview with Denver native Matthew Dailey, appearing at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
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You're just too good to be true. Can't take my eyes off of you
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Their catalog of music is so vast that you know almost all their songs, you just don't know it's them
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Denver boy Matthew Daly is Jersey boy Tommy DeVito in Jersey Boys
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the Tony Award winning musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
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A lot of people don't know, I like to think of the show kind of like a VH1 behind the music of the Four Seasons
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Matthew Daly was born and raised in Denver, Colorado and grew up watching shows at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts
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I just knew I wanted to see as many shows here as possible
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And the dream was stand up on the stage, but who knew, you know, it was 20 years ago
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More than 50 years ago, the Four Seasons became worldwide superstars. While most people think of these Jersey boys as all American boys, that wasn't quite the case
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What I like about the show is they don't try and sugarcoat it. It's very accurate to who these guys were, who they are to this day
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Begging you, put your loving hands out baby. With rich harmonies and Frankie Valli's powerful falsetto
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the Four Seasons created one of the most iconic sounds in rock and roll history
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How did the four lead actors recreate it? They really try and stress the fact that we're not tribute artists
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It's not, you know, we're not impersonators. We're not tribute artists, but at the same time paying tribute to the artists
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The one exception, the actors who play Frankie. They go through what's called Frankie camp before they get to play Frankie
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And it's this crazy week of hell that I would never want to go through to do it justice
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And it's not an easy sound to do justice to. The end result is a show that will have audiences saying..
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Oh what a night! Jersey Boys plays from November 9th to the 14th at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts
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This is Rob Bogan for BroadwayWorld.com
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