Presented by characters based on the original members of The Four Seasons, Jersey Boys is an incredibly clever history lesson wrapped around some of the greatest songs of our time.

The musical opens with a contemporary French pop-rap version of December 1963 (Oh, What A Night) - Ces Soirées-Là - and Tommy DeVito steps forward to reveal that it's ( Read more... )

As a child, it was never Mary Poppins the film I was interested in. I didn't much care for the spoilt children, their uptight father or their egotistical nanny. The only reason I watched it was for the songs, the fact that it revered in the power of imagination, and for the amusing, charming Bert (Dick van DykeSo it wasn't with an inflated sense of ( Read more... )