Director Des MacAnuff and his crackerjack cast turned what might have been just a routine behind-the-music bio (about the rise of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons) into an acclaimed megahit, snagging the Tony for Best Musical and making Jersey Boys tickets a white-hot commodity. The real surprise: the book. Clive Barnes calls it "as tight and absorbing as an Arthur Miller play."

 

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