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I Curt Schleier Special to the Jewish News T here was a stretch of time between the '60s and the '80s when it was impossible to turn on a radio without hearing a falsetto voice singing songs of teenage angst. "Sher-her-ee, Sherry baby" "Walk like a man, talk like a man." "I'll be a big man in town." Those were, of course, the hits of the Four Seasons, one of the best-known pop groups of all time. Who possibly could have lived through that era and not been a fan of their music? What human being didn't admire the spunk of the young man who told "Dawn" to go away because he wasn't good for her, who had no time for her tears because "Big Girls Don't Cry" and then changed his mind and said, "Let's Hang On (To What We've Got)"? Well, that would be Marshall Brickman. Former Folkie Brickman is the Academy Award-win- ning co-screenwriter of Annie Hall, among numerous films of Jewish angst he co-wrote with Woody Allen. He was the head writer for both the Johnny Carson and Dick Cavett shows. And now he is the unlikely co-writer of Jersey Boys, the new hit musical about the Four Seasons that opened on Broadway in November. "I was a Red Diaper kid," Brickman said in a telephone interview, referring to himself by the name ascribed to the progeny of socialists. "I really didn't know much about them. I wasn't in the back of the Chevy making out to the Four Seasons!' What he was doing was singing and playing folk music. He was a member of a folk group called the Tarriers, a banjo player behind the bestselling Deliverance soundtrack and a member of the New Journeymen, which evolved into the Mamas and the Papas after he left the group. What would he know about life for four Italian kids from the other side of the Hudson? Turns out, he didn't have to know much. This was a story that wrote itself. Friends had arranged a meeting with Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio, the last two active members of the group and the ones who controlled the Four Seasons' rights. "They wanted to do their Mama Mia," Brickman says. "We (he and co- book writer Rick Elice) were looking to do something together. We had a lunch with them, and they opened up about their early life, about getting mobbed up, and it was just a wonder- ful story. It was Shakespearean. It had love, hate, betrayal, jealousy" Write Jewish Though it was not his natural milieu, Brickman wasn't worried about cul- ture shock. Besides, he says there's an old theater adage: Write Jewish, cast British — Or in this case Italian. Certainly, there are Jewish moments to the play. "I think it's inevitable," he says, and goes on to offer an example. In the second scene, Valli and Gaudio are the only two original members left in the group, and Gaudio wants to take on a reduced role. He suggests that the group be renamed Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.