“What these actors have done is come up with a viable form of employment. Steven Suskin, a former producer and the author of “The Sound of Broadway Music” (Oxford University Press), said it’s the close identification between their most celebrated roles and their new career that make the Midtown Men unusual. Echoing the “Jersey Boys” template they sing and weave in their own stories: four guys who met in a Broadway hit and kept on making music. Valli) went from playing pop stars in a quartet to trying to be pop stars in a quartet. Longoria (Joe Pesci in the original cast and Mr. and Everyone in Between,” knocking out songs popularized by the Four Seasons and others.īut Mr. Valli in Chicago, has created a solo concert called “A Jersey Voice: Sinatra to Springsteen. Valli again after more than four years away. Valli - recently cut an album and rejoined the cast to play Mr.

John Lloyd Young - who won a Tony for his Broadway debut as the bantam Mr. Stage stars with strong followings, from Audra McDonald to Kristin Chenoweth, have balanced concert hall and stage. The stories they tell now are about being on tour and about meeting as actors in a Broadway hit. Hoff won a Tony for playing the hotheaded Tommy DeVito.

Robert Spencer and Michael Longoria, now the Midtown Men, were all part of the original “Jersey Boys” cast Mr. For more than a thousand performances beginning in 2005, Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, J. If you’re reminded of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, you’re not far off. The Midtown Men is the name of this sort-of boy band, and this private show at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark represented a typical performance: mostly songs from the 1960s, from a group sporting slick hair and skinny ties, one of them packing a strong falsetto. Between numbers they recounted favorite memories from the past few years, like singing “Oh What a Night” with Dick Clark in Times Square on New Year’s Eve. STRUTTING across the stage in red silk jackets, the quartet belted out vintage tunes like “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” “Sherry” and “Happy Together.” Two middle-aged women giggled, then shouted, “Those are Temptations moves!” Sidling up to the microphone, rolling their hands, the singers had the air of the Rat Pack, Motown and a nightclub act rolled into one.

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