S11 Ep33: Ellis Kirk, alternate Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys

So...

So are you kind of like, is it sunk in that you're in Jersey Boys and this is your life now for a

bit? No, not really.

I think I just, I don't know.

I think I just, yeah, just go with my life.

And then you get on stage and then like you get to the bows or something.

And every now and again, you just think, this is a bit weird.

This is kind of my life.

So I literally just, I just kind of, dance around and make noises on a stage and pretend to be people and, you know, people actually enjoy that, so.

Well, when you're playing Frankie Valli, it's quite specific noises that you're making.

Very specific noises.

Like, quite unusual noises.

very high pitched not yeah not many humans can create those noises so wait if we rewind like before i don't know before it came up this time was this role was this show on the radar it's kind of like known as a bit like a male alphabet situation it is so hard it's so grueling it's so specific not many people can do it genuinely so like did you know of it have you seen it what what did you what was like your relationship with josie boys before this

So I always knew of it from probably when I kind of started training, so to speak.

So like, well, when I was like 16 to 18, I kind of went to a sixth form and did musical theatre there.

And so kind of when I got into that, I did loads of research on musicals in general because I just I wasn't really a big musicals person as a kid.

I was very, I was probably more films.

I was more film and TV that I loved.

So I wasn't as big on musicals.

I did, I did no musicals and stuff, mainly through kind of the Saturday school that I did.

I went to like a Saturday school called Rebel that I just did every Saturday.

Where did you

grow up? I grew up in Huddersfield.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But yeah, and I just had, I just loved kind of performing really.