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I don't have a voice for an upper register right now. It is the 169th
one of these. Welcome. My name is Rob. I am the executive producer of the
clubhouse podcast and I can't really talk about December in 1963 because I was
negative 10. But I'm not alone for this particular edition. Joining me across the
desk as he tends to do is my co-host and a man who is also not available in
December of 63. He was in the third grade. So you have to take that with a
grain of salt. He is Chad. Welcome sir. I was waiting for that second sucker
punch to come swinging. Sometimes I have to do it. There's like there's a requirement
in my contract. It's a long story. Also joining us is the official fact checker
of this show and a man who only can sing like Frankie Valley when he wears
really really tight pants and none of us want to see that. You may know I'm
his fun. Don't go. It is my name. I'm Don Ford. I'm going to call him Don
Ford. Welcome sir. What's this contract stuff? I don't even have a contract.
Oh, there's a reason you don't have a contract. Give you a little artistic
freedom. That's the rest of us don't have. Whatever we do one of these, it is
to review something. This is no exception. For this particular edition, we're
reviewing a stage production. The multi-tony award winning production,
Jersey Boys, has made its way to the Dallas Fort Worth area. This is a
touring company. So if you don't live in the Dallas Fort Worth area, don't
stop. Keep listening because this may come to a town near you. Very, very soon. It
is this story as you probably have figured out by now of Frankie Valley in the
four seasons. Starting off, what's kind of cool about the way they tell
the story is, it's told from different points of view, but not at the same
time. We start with with Tommy DeVito, played by Matthew Daily in this
particular production, trying to get something off the ground in one day he
hears a young man by the name of Frankie Castalucio. He Swedish played by Aaron
DeHate the Jesus or DeHate Zeus. I can't figure out which one it is because I've
heard it said both ways. Who's voice is so different from anything he's ever
heard, but he's got to get this kid taken care of. So we take some under was
winning. They start playing around together and they become a group with a
bass player named Nick Massey played by Keith Hines. And as time goes on, they
hook up with Bob Gaudio played by Drew Seely and then becomes Frankie Valley
in the four seasons. Well, they come the four seasons that a lot of that comes
later on. What are an interesting about the way this is told? Instead of four
acts, it's told oddly enough in four seasons, clever how they did that. Very well
played like that. There's there's crime, there's betrayal, there's seduction. It's
like a musical godfather, really. Without all the killing. So Donald, I'm going to
start with you. Yeah, but before we start. Oh, what do we have to think, Cindy Evans,
everybody at ATT and a WinSpere Opera House. Thank you so much for forming art
center. It's such an amazing facility. And it's not just for WinSpere. It's
it's a whole era. It's just gorgeous, but we wrote the WinSpere Opera House for
this, which is an unbelievable room to see a show in. And the chandelier was shaped
like a Christmas tree. Yeah, which was awesome. Yeah, totally. Because it reminds me of
record this. It is Christmas time. Yeah, but thank you so much, Cindy. You're some
beautiful room. Great seats, wonderful presentation, Don. What did you think about
the storyline? Actually, I liked it. Did you really? Yeah, if you go my right
review at www.theclubhouse.com, that's kind of our website. Theclubhouse.com. I put
on there that the plot when it comes down to it is kind of simple because it's just
the story of a band making it. But on the other hand, it kept me interested because
they put so much into it. Okay. You know what the story is about? It's about the band.
Right. What it comes down to it. But how I thought it started slow a little bit in
the beginning. But then how it started to gain steam and from then it never stopped.
I was really interested in the storyline. Chat. I'm right there with you. It was
fascinating to see this as an outside to looking on the inside and
seeing that it wasn't all as I put in my written review at www.clubhouse.com. That's
so well. We're having difficulty with the website today. Because there's too much of a mouthful
that driving right by that block. Yeah, you go right on a head. It's in now it's completely lost
by train of thought. We're talking about the storyline. How is kind of simple? It's just
so that you're going to go with you. That is not all about wine and roses.
Great. It's there are many, many bumps and many, many pitfalls along the way that along with
all the success comes all the trappings of fame. Great. And that it's not a pretty picture.
For me, be prepared that this story moves quickly. That does. There's you don't get a lot of
time to breathe. Which I think for a story like this is necessary. Because there's a lot
going on here. There's a lot of story to tell. And you're trying to do it without turning
this thing into an epic or drama instead of a music. Right. And of course, all of the music
is music from Frankie Valley in the Four Seasons. There's nothing. We don't venture away from
anything. But the music they use helps tell the story. It's not just, oh yeah. And then we did this
song. Like the songs that they perform at the times they perform them help apply to the story
that's being told. Which I thought was really, really well done. Oh, currently I agree 100%.
One thing I wanted is that I didn't know that dated what. Oh, what a night. Really. Yeah, I did not.
I heard it a million times, but I never really knew who did it. Which is one of my love it. I love
which is one of my wrong. It's favorite songs in the history of ever, much less favorite song
of theirs. Like they did that one. And it's been done a lot of times. I mean, I remember when it was
a chart, it charted what late 80s early. Yeah, late 80s. Right around when they got inducted into the
rock and roll hall of fame, which is as far as the story tells. Yeah, they're inducted in 1990.
Yeah. And just everything in this works so well from you. Well, also what impressed me
and chart will go back to you on this. The transitions between scenes. We've seen a lot of
productions in the last couple of years. I don't know that I've ever seen transitions as fluid
as I have in this one outside of maybe dirty dancing. That was, that I can see that. That's the
bar that I think we said earlier. Or Phantom of the Opera. But even with Phantom, there was some
little moments where you were kind of like, okay, we're doing a transition. It was like everything
was constantly moving here. Even the drummer. Like the drummer was moving. Yeah. There's like two drummers.
Right. Yeah. Because you had sometimes where the music was being played off stage. There's no
pit orchestra in this. Everything is either played on stage or right off stage. It's just, it
absolutely knocked me out. How fluid this whole thing was. Because when you have a almost
breakneck pace in the story like this, things can get clunky if you don't have everything in
lockstep. And this production really did done. I'm sorry. I mean, we'll go to you and then we'll
go check. Yeah. And we talked about the music and the singing now. We're talking about the transitions
and how fluid. Oh, yeah, totally. I guess I thought Phantom was one of the best though. But on this
one, I love the lighting. I loved how, like you're saying the props went in and out fast.
They really really felt like you're going from scene to scene to scene on this. And the backdrops
with the props, even though it was not a huge set like Phantom, it was still done perfectly. I thought.
Yeah. That's what I like whenever you can take, take some, so little and make so much out of it.
Because it was, it was a relatively minimalist set design. There wasn't a lot of clutter on stage.
I mean, they, and they didn't really have to use up kind of like what we saw at Christmas
Carol at the, at the Wally where they had to use every little inch of that real estate.
They weren't really bound by that at the windspir. So they were able to
open things up a little bit more. And, you know, they can do walk-offs and walk-ons and it's more
realistic. That we're, and it, it always kind of intrigued me how the majority of the times,
whenever an actor was leaving a scene, they always take the spiral staircase upstairs
and took the cat walk-off stage. Or they went the other way, where they took the,
there was a left and then the cat walk across to. Yeah, they didn't really do a lot of ground
levels. Right. There were a couple of stages, but not very much. But mostly like what you have
saying, one of my favorites was how they, how they're able to use the back screen and do the
at solubin. Yes. We're, they run American bands, they were, you actually have the actual footage
from the show, inner cut with actual camera shooting of the cast on stage. Yes, I, that's a great
point out that was a great thing to really cool that back screen. How they did it. Very good use of
technology and lighting here. Yeah. Uh, it knew exactly what it had to be and it was that speaking of
things that had to exactly be what they were. Let's talk about this cast. Playing the four seasons,
we talked about them earlier, Drew Seely, Aaron did Jesus or Jesus putting a who you are,
Keith Hines, Matthew Daily. Now, Frankie Valley could be two different people depending on the,
the showing you see. You could also see Miguel Jacqueen, Moreland. I really hope I didn't kill that
too badly. But there are two different guys playing Frankie Valley because I think that's such a physically
demanding role. And Miguel's kind of limited, though. I mean, he says on air, he's, but sort of say
Matt Naze Sunday, Matt Naze Sunday evening. Right. If you, if you want to understand how
demanding this role is vocally and physically, you got to have two people play it. You know what I mean?
I, I thought these guys all four rock solid all the way through chat. Absolutely. Absolutely.
Not a bad performer among them. I got to say that the last shot of the first act,
where they're actually facing the other way. Yeah. The audience is technically backstage. That was an
amazing shot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One of the rules killed it. One of them was one of the
issues with the life of the stage lights. One of the basic rules in, you know, plays and stuff is
you try to never have your back to the audience. Right. And they flat out did it, but it works.
Well, they, they did it for a reason. Yeah. And I stand in it work. Because that's one of the
sins I remember from, you know, classes and high school and stuff like that. He's always trying
to face the crowd regardless, but how they're just flat to the back, but that scene worked doing
gorgeous. Yeah. What else? And the acting, my shout out, believe it or not, is a guy who, who played
Nick Massey, Keith Heinz. Right there with you. Right there with you. That's really great.
It's going to start a new band. I guess it's a new group. I mean, he just when he goes, his
comedy and style made that character. I, he made him love the character and he made him love the comedy
that he added to it. I thought he's my, which I put in my written view at the clubhouse podcast.com.
That is our website. Thank you. I put in there. He's my shout out role. But I'll tell you
for me, and I don't know that I've ever been able to say this. I don't have one. You don't have a shout out
role? No, everybody in this production was so strong. Well, I'm not doing play. I'm playing anybody.
But that's what I say. There's nobody that I can tell you, pull the head of the pack. You know,
Frankie does what he does. He has to be the leader. So there's an expectation there.
That's an expectation. I was not an English major. But there's this whole cast from top to bottom
is so strong that I can't give you a stand out in my personal opinion. This was so great. So
well done. Like my eyes were glued the entire time. You know, I, I did look at my watch a couple
of times for a completely different reason. That was not related to the production. Yeah, I wonder
what we were a little bit on a time schedule. Yes, you guys were. But I mean, everything worked out.
So, you know, no complaints. But this production was so amazing. What? I want to add to the
scene. I mean, Dave, he suits how he played Frankie. He crushed it. And I put again in my review that.
I put that it's kind of like, is it real? It's a memory. It's kind of thing when we had about it.
But this is recording because these guys sounded spot on. Yeah. I was expecting Frankie
Valley to come out with a microphone of picking from behind the curtain like, fool, Jeff. This got
crushes it. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, that's just him, but the whole band,
but the whole band. But that guy's voice is not an easy voice to mimic. Oh, no. And I will tell you this.
I have not seen the film directed by Clint Eastwood. Seeing the musical makes me, I've got
it on my DVR. I've had it there forever. I now and more motivated to watch the film at
the scene, the musical. And that's hard to say because a lot of people are like, once you've seen
the stage production, you really don't want to see the film version. I want to see the film version
or do now. Because I think the film version probably goes deeper into some topics that maybe the
the musical doesn't have the time to go into. Very interested to see the film. And this may
make the film a more of a disappointment after seeing that. That's possible. I can't say that it's not
possible. It's strong. It's, I just, I can't say a good enough good things about this. Anything
else we want to add before we get to the final analysis? Not at all. This was really a remarkable
process. Yeah, the last thing for you to find a lot. Again, we thank you so much for this whole year
to Cindy and everybody at the pack or it couldn't be, it didn't be so packed and in the
performance center. There's so good. This whole year how they intrigued us incredibly. We have
to thank them and happy holidays all those people there. Thank you so much. The way we do the final
analysis on this show. We don't give you thumbs up thumbs down. We don't give you letter grades,
numbers one to ten. We don't do anything like that. Our audience, who will be affectionate
or virtually in the impair? We think they deserve more than that. So it's going to be two questions.
Question number one is would you see this production again? If the answer is no, then we're done here.
If the answer is yes, it's a little bit different than when we do movies because
I want to know where you want to sit versus how far you're willing to go because it's kind of the
same thing with kind of different. Don, would you see this again? Oh, definitely. How far you're
willing to go? I would do right in that section right from the soundboard like the center of the center.
Yeah, it's center of the floor and again, we're not complaining about where we're going to be at all.
Yeah, we thought they'd see it. Yeah, but yeah, but yeah, yeah, it's like that point clear. But
I'd say probably a couple of rows and why were we sent for any that one time? Okay, but three
four rows before this. Yeah, same thing exact same thing. I would see this again. I don't care if I'm
sitting in the fourth balcony. To me, there's not a bad place to sit to see this particular
person. Oh, no. Get in the building anyway, you can. And with that performance area, that center there,
the acoustics aren't credible. I mean, no matter where you sit, you're going to get great music.
You're going to hear it incredibly, no matter where you're at. Anything else for we do the plug gentleman?
Now that we're good. All right, then let's do the plugs.
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