Jersey Boys – as good as ‘they’ say it is

You just can’t help yourself: you sing!

A motley trio of a female (56) and two males (40 and 23), we ambled along to a Sunday matinee performance of Jersey Boys with, we admitted, fairly low expectations. To be honest, this wasn’t anyone’s favourite music genre, Franki Valli hadn’t really touched any our lives in a meaningful way, and a friend had not particularly enjoyed an earlier performance.

Quelle surprise! We all loved it. It was a wholeheartedly, foot-tappingly, sing-out-loudly appreciation of a fabulous production with talented, nay extraordinarily talented, performers and a great set. It’s a top-notch production, worthy of any mainstream Toronto theatre. There isn’t a bad seat in the house of this North York location, and it’s really comfortable for a sitting marathon. The wait for the women’s loos during the interval was minuscule in comparison to, say, Roy Thomson Hall because there are so many of them. Ladies, we know that washroom wait time is important!

We couldn’t help ourselves. We sang, we laughed and we applauded in concert with the rest of the good-natured and appreciative full house for a full two hours. It was a great afternoon out for all age groups!

Yes, we’d go again.

(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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