You may have caught the Oh What a Night! Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons tribute show when it came to town in 2014.
The tribute performers are back at Laurentian University's Fraser Auditorium Nov. 26 to present their holiday show, Oh What a Night! - The Christmas Show.
This time, the show combines the best of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons with the music of Andy Williams and the Williams Brothers.
The show will also feature holiday favourites such as “White Christmas,” “It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” and of course, Williams' signature song, “Moon River.”
Both Frankie Valli and Andy Williams — who's well known for his '60s and '70s television variety show The Andy Williams Show — were both popular in roughly the same era.
But that's not why Oh What a Night! is now presenting Williams' music, said the show's director, producer and creator, Michael Chapman.
He said the tribute artists performed at Williams' Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri for years.
“We were actually on stage with Andy at his very final performance,” he said. “No one knew at that time it was going to be his last performance.”
When Williams, who passed away in 2012 at the age of 84, first became ill, he asked the Frankie Valli tribute artists to take his place in his annual Christmas show.
“He said 'Nobody better to take my spot then you guys,'” Chapman said.
While the music is that of the baby boomer era, he said anybody who comes to the show will enjoy it. This is classic, timeless music, Chapman said.
“In the nine years we've been doing it, I don't think there's been one instance where we haven't gotten numerous standing ovations,” he said.
“People are just dancing in their seats or aisles. There's no particular age group it's appropriate for. Grandparents in their 80s bring their seven- or eight-year-old grandchildren.”
Tickets to the show cost $57.91 each, and are available through Sudbury Theatre Centre's box office. Showtime is 7 p.m.
