It was great to play for a live audience on a stage.

It was great to play for a live audience on a stage.

I think Frankie Valli did everything right. He kept singing. And you also have to remember, he was confined to a certain society, which was this sort of like - the wrong side of the law kind of society of Italian guys from the streets of Belleville, New Jersey. So he found his way.

But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.

I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things to give that Frankie Valli flavor.

I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.

I was a Hollywood musical fan as a kid, and I know how rare it is for someone who originates the Broadway role to get to then do it on screen.