Picking the music for Jersey Boys now coming to Theatre Under the Stars at the Hobby. tutshouston hobbycenter
In 2004 there wasn’t yet the great collection of juke box musicals that has come in the years since. “It was still a relatively new genre,” remembers music arranger Ron Melrose. But, of course, with the success ofMelrose got called in to work on one such project, but one with a distinct difference.wouldn’t just use the music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, it would tell the story of how Tommy DeVito, Nick Massi, Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio got together.
director Des McAnuff was handing him a crucial task when he called him in. Melrose began sorting through the Four Seasons catalog — Gaudio wrote or co-wrote most of their music — and was faced with a lot of hard choices in weaving songs into the story structure. There was just so much to choose from.
"Or a song that was just a major hit and people would go home satisfied if they didn't hear that song got extra points." Any biography of Melrose includes the note that he has a degree in philosophy from Harvard. an initial head-scratcher until he explains why he got that degree despite an early interest and eventual career in music.
and John Kander of Kander and Ebb, who's the composer of that show came up to me in the room and said 'This is going to be one of the strangest conversations you've ever had. I got my break when I was playing auditions for Jule Styne'sand he lost his dance music arranger that morning and on a whim he asked me if I would write the dance music for the show.
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