CROON WITH THE JERSEY BOYS. MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR JUNE 20TH !!

Turn the clock back and enjoy the signature sound of the Jersey Boys and you can thank the The Midtown Men, the vocal group comprised of four stars from the Original Broadway Cast of Jersey Boys, for the opportunity to enjoy nostalgia with music.

It’s their long awaited New York City Homecoming concert on June 20th, 2015 at New York’s famed Beacon Theatre (2124 Broadway, NYC).

The Midtown Men have been performing nearly 400 concerts across North America, the group’s leading men include Tony Award-winner Christian Hoff, Michael Longoria, Daniel Reichard, and Tony Award-nominee J. Robert Spencer.

The Midtown Men know how to put on a show and that’s using their celebrated arrangements of the greatest hits of the 1960s. This June performance, at the Beacon, will be their final show of this year’s tour.

During their time in the mega-hit musical Jersey Boys, these four talented artists shared the stage for over a thousand performances. Since forming in 2010 as The Midtown Men, they have played in concert halls from coast to coast and have sung with over 20 major symphonies, including the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. In 2012, The Men released their first radio single, “All Alone on Christmas,” written and produced by rock icon Steven Van Zandt and backed by Van Zandt’s bandmates from Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band as a fundraiser for the Red Cross after Hurricane Sandy. They were honored to perform the song at the White House for the National Tree Lighting Ceremony in Washington DC that year. Wrapping up their fifth national tour in 2015, the “Men” continue to sell-out venues across the U.S. and Canada.

Promoted by Live Nation, tickets for The Midtown Men’s NYC Homecoming can be purchased by visiting www.ticketmaster.com or by calling 1-800-745-3000. If fans wish to receive their tickets by pledging to public television, they can visit www.thirteen.org/ticketbooth or call 1-800-468-9913.

The group's PBS/Thirteen television pledge drive special will air on WNET (New York), NJTV (New Jersey), and WLIW (Long Island) starting February 28th at 5 p.m. in NYC. Please check your local listings for additional airings.

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Clint Eastwood: "I challenge you not to leave the film singing!"

The great film-maker Clint Eastwood has a habit of delivering pleasurable movies, filled with strong actors and wrapped up neatly in a satisfying cinematic experience. He's so gosh, darn great at delivering the quality goods, it's hard for most to single out one of their favourites Eastwood film.

His newest, "Jersey Boys," isn't his best but all-in-all it's not a bad film. It just isn't Clint Eastwood great.

The film lifts a page directly from the Tony awarding winning play (Jersey Boys) which is the compelling story of the rise and rocky road to success of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

Eastwood employed a trick Broadway producers often forgot, no doubt influenced by the high produced by triple digit ticket prices: Leave them "hungry" and wanting more.

No stranger to exploring street tough characters, burdened by their machismo pride, he anchors those early scenes of street crime and bar life with welcome weight.

Their misadventures are scrappy and these young men of a era were desperate. It was a crap shoot—fame—and when the band starts racking up No. 1s — fights over girls and money — despite being woefully predictable, does feel momentous.

Two of the Four Seasons were serious musicians, GOD gifted and dedicated to pop-music craftsmanship; two were regular "right place at the right time" guys from a mobbed up neighbourhood who made every effort to stay feeling outclassed.

There are many moments where the music saves the movie, much like it saved the men singing under a city street-light.

It's especially fine when John Lloyd Young (the Tony-winner who originated the Valli role on Broadway) uncorks that falsetto, and the sound of his voice washes away the film's minor infelicities.

In the third act, when the original Four Seasons reunite at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the sentiments that Frankie Valli shared, about the moment that meant most to his chart topping career he stated for history: "Four guys under a street lamp, when it was all still ahead of us, the first time we made that sound — our sound."

That's also one of the best moments in "Jersey Boys" and I challenge you not to leave the film singing and walking "like a man" because frankly " big girls don't cry."

Directed by Clint Eastwood. Written by Marshall Brickman and Rich Elice. Starring John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Michael Lomenda, Vincent Piazza, Christopher Walken, Mike Doyle, and Renee Marino.