Safely ensconced in the LaSalle Bank Theatre for the next year and a half, the mega-jukebox musical “Jersey Boys” has stirred up a “perfect storm” of industrial-strength nostalgia. Replete with doo-wop harmonies, piledriving rock anthems and blue-collar verismo, all of course the trademarks of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, this well-packaged blast from the past may soft-peddle the Mafia-ridden New Jersey that produced these pop geniuses, but it’s the performances, as much inspiration as imitation, that sell these terrific numbers. You can’t fool a happy crowd and Monroe Street will be full of them from now on.

—Lawrence Bommer