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Background Jersey Boys on Broadway played Friday August 22nd at 8 Pm, and performed at the August Wilson Theater in New York. The main characters consisted of Dominic Scaglione Jr. as Frankie Valli, Richard H. Blake as Tommy DeVito, Quinn VanAntwerp as Bob Gaudio and Michael Lomenda as Nick Massi. Jersey Boys is a musical memoir of the 1960’s rock and roll group, The Four Seasons. Through the progression of the play, the audience is taken on a journey as each member of the group narrates a particular development emphasizing how the Four Seasons came to be. In the first Act, Tommy DeVito walks out on stage and begins to tell the audience about the development of the band. At first, the group started out as starting out as "The Variety Trio" along with his brother, Nick DeVito and friend Nick Massi. At that time, Tommy discovered a confused teenager, Frankie Castelluccio, and took him under his wing, teaching him everything he knows about music. With Nick DeVito in prison, the band struggled to gain any form of success, they changed their names multiple times until Bob Gaudio, singer and songwriter came along uniting the lost group (Playbill: Jersey Boys). At this point, Bob takes over the account and informs the audience of his previous hit single “Short Shorts”. After negotiating an agreement, the group signs a contract with a musical producer who ultimately does not live up to the end of …show more content…

The play Jersey Boys required a modest orchestra of which included nine players. The instruments included (1) three keyboards, (2) a guitar, (3) a bass, (4) drums, (5) two woodwind players and (5) trumpet. The two woodwind players alternated between a variety of instruments, (1) saxophone, (2) clarinet, (3) flute, (4) oboe, and (5) saxophone (Playbill: Jersey Boys). "Sherry" sang by The Four

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