What’s the hardest role to cast in theater? Surely, one of them has to be Frankie Valli of ‘Four Seasons’ fame, whose story is told in Jersey Boys. How many actors, after all, can boast Valli’s combination of diminutive stature, Mediterranean complexion – and most important of all, that inimitable singing voice?

Happily, the touring production of Jersey Boys, which is currently playing at Washington, D.C.’s National Theatre, has cast a thespian who’s up to the part. Aaron De Jesus is superb as the falsetto-happy singer, and he’s joined here by a talented cast who play the rest of the band, as well as the producers, managers, and groupies they interacted with.

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