Jersey Boys on Broadway

photo: Sara Krulwich, The New York Times

This show was so refreshingly fun! I intently watched and listened to get every bit of it right up until the final curtain.

The last few Broadway shows have been terrifically disappointing (yes, including Book of Mormon and Tom Hank's Lucky Guy). But when friends come to visit, you go to a Broadway show. This time I did more homework than usual.

I have discovered the website Did He Like It by Ben Brantley, the chief theater critic for The New York Times. Here various reviews are published side-by-side along with the little guy below. You can click on each summary and see the entire review but, as Brantley himself admits, no one wants to read the entire review for heavens sake.

  Jersey Boys received unanimous thumbs up reviews. I think I can trust it in the future as a general guide due to this experience.