Arts & Entertainment
'Sweet Surrender' on the Ocean City Boardwalk
The Frankie Valli tribute 'Oh What a Night' has the parents and grandparents rocking in the aisles.
Don't tell the kids.
Mom and dad were caught clapping and singing along, perhaps a bit too loudly, the other night. Grandma and grandpa were spotted dancing in the aisles.
A live tribute to Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons at the new Moorlyn Family Theatre on the Ocean City Boardwalk has audiences out of their seats as a cast of four professional singers performs three decades of hits. The show runs Sunday, Monday and Tuesday evenings at 8 p.m. through August.
Taking note of the active audiences and a growing number of "young" groupies returning to see the show for second and third times, Moorlyn Family Theatre Artistic Director Seth Bazacas said he's happy to see the growing support.
"I want shows like this to become part of the experience when you come down to the shore," Bazacas said.
Bazacas, a 2005 graduate of Ocean City High School, is part of the show and has toured with it for about five years.
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- See video of the show on YouTube
- Learn more about the show at OhWhatANightTribute.com
- Learn more about the Moorlyn Family Theatre and its new programs
Written by Motown historian George Solomon, produced by Michael Chapman and choreographed by Paul Holmquist, the show intersperses Four Seasons hits with comic banter and facts about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members.
Like the Broadway hit "Jersey Boys," the show covers the full range of Frankie Valli hits from "Sherry" to "Grease," but unlike that show, it's not set up as a chronological history of the group.
The live music is part of the new lineup of movies and entertainment at the refurbished Moorlyn Family Theatre, which was purchased by the Ocean City Tabernacle in October 2012, shortly before Superstorm Sandy struck. The owners have given new life to a theater that has operated at the same location for almost a century.
Tickets for the show are $25 and can be purchased at the door or reserved in advance by calling the box office at 609-399-0006.
The show is appropriate for all ages and the Frankie Valli hits timeless, but if a show earlier this week is any indication, it will be the older generations who will be singing, "Sweet surrender, what a night."
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