‘Oh, what a night!’ - Jersey Boys at Bristol Hippodrome

If Michael Eavis still needs to fill any ‘legends’ slots for this year’s Glastonbury festival, he might want to get on the phone to Frankie Valli’s agent.

After all, the American singer’s back catalogue is still packing out theatres thanks to the return of the award-winning musical Jersey Boys and the songs have stood the test time. Sunday afternoon Glasto-goers would love it.

From opener December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) to the finale of Rag Doll, the Bristol Hippodrome audience were clapping and singing along for more than two hours of back-to-back 1960s and 1970s classics.

Jersey Boys is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, four ordinary boys from the mean streets of New Jersey who became an international pop sensation and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

With fellow band members Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi, Valli took the Four Seasons to the top at the same time as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.

Jersey Boys is crammed with most of the hits, including Sherry, Walk Like A Man, Big Girls Don’t Cry, My Eyes Adored You and Let’s Hang On (To What We’ve Got).

In fact, by the time, the cast get to Bye Bye Baby, Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, Working My Way Back to You and Fallen Angel, you soon remember just how many classics they released.

As Valli, Ryan Heenan reaches all of those eye-poppingly high falsetto notes with impressive ease. He has strong support from Dalton Wood as guitarist Tommy DeVito, Blair Gibson as Bob Gaudio and Christopher Short as Nick Massi.

Only 80-year-old Gaudio and 88-year-old Valli remain from the original line-up of the Four Seasons but thanks to the enduring success of Jersey Boys, their music lives on.

I wonder if they are free to fly over to perform a few of these much-loved hits in a muddy field in Glastonbury at the end of June?

Jersey Boys is at Bristol Hippodrome until January 21. For tickets, click here.