Oh, what a night! This sleek, seamless production about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons has great music, terrific voices, and a compelling true story.

The Four Seasons were regularly at the top of the Billboard charts from their first hit—“Big Girls Don’t Cry” in 1962 until “December 1963 (Oh, What a Night)” in 1976. Bob Gaudio wrote the songs, Frankie Valli sang the lead, and two other guys from the neighborhood provided the harmony and the chutzpah to get them from the street corner to The Ed Sullivan Show.

Whether this was the soundtrack of your youth or you never knew where all of these rock classics came from, you’re going to love Jersey Boys. Unlike Mamma Mia!—which crafted a fake story to string together songs from the Swedish group Abba—Jersey Boys is the true story of guys who could have been the Sopranos if Frankie Valli hadn’t been able to sing soprano and Bob Gaudio hadn’t started writing hit songs almost before he hit puberty.

And what songs! “Walk Like a Man,” “Sherri,” “Working My Way Back to You”—the list goes on and on. Jersey Boys won four Tony Awards, including best musical, and the road company delivers Tony-worthy performances. Joseph Leo Bwarie has the vocal chops to deliver a performance that would make Frankie himself take notice. Matt Bailey’s Tommy DeVito has the grit of a street kid who never lost the bravado that made him the toughest kid on the block. Josh Franklin is a perfect foil for Bailey—his Bob Gaudio is the outsider—the clean-cut boy-genius songwriter introduced to the group by Joe Pesci (yes, that Joe Pesci). Steve Gouveia carries the bass line as Nick Massi, the guy who got carried along.

I could wax rhapsodic about the set, the staging, the well-paced direction. But it’s the singers and the songs that make this such a terrific show. As they used to say on American Bandstand, “It’s got a good beat, and you can dance to it. I’d give it a 10.”