Yes, there’s professional theater in the Sierra Nevada — and has been for 43 years, thanks to Sierra Repertory Theatre.
And this summer, after you’ve boated in nearby New Melones Lake or bombed down Big Hill Road on your bicycle, you can cap off your excursion in Columbia — the historically preserved Gold Rush-era town in Tuolumne County — with the snappy rhythms and infectiously joyful melodies of the Four Seasons.
“Jersey Boys,” which is directed by Jerry Lee, is one of the new millennium’s most successful jukebox musicals, telling the unlikely story of how a quartet of working-class kids — with a few robbery convictions and parole violations among them — catapulted to superstardom.
With a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, the musical uses the four seasons of the year as its structure, with each bandmate taking a turn as narrator — correcting, qualifying and elaborating on what the last one said, all to the toe-tapping tunes of “Sherry,” “Stay” and “Rag Doll.”