Jersey Boys returns to Ireland next week - and it's definitely not a jukebox musical

Despite their squeaky clean image, Frankie Valli and his group came from a tough background. Jersey Boys doesn’t shirk this, writes Ed Power

THE stars of Jersey Boys are taken aback slightly when their show is off-handedly referred to as a “jukebox musical”. No slight is intended.

I was merely pointing out that the Broadway smash — returning to Ireland for a limited run next week — is in the modern tradition of song and dance productions that serve up old hits in a crowd-pleasing new context.