Jukebox musical ‘Jersey Boys’ picks up the pace for today’s audiences

Steven Van Zandt once described Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons’ chart-topping 1963 single “Walk Like a Man” as “the perfect record — the song, the arrangement, the performance, the production.” The musician/actor/radio host also said it “absorbed doo-wop and introduced New Jersey attitude in a tougher and completely original way.”
That realistic East Coast sensibility is part of what set “Jersey Boys” — which det