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Photo courtesy of Katherine Davis, Channel24.com The SA production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway and West End hit is a must-see and will probably have a greater appeal with a more mature audience. Jersey Boys , the worldwide musical phenomenon written by Academy Award-winner Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice with music by Bob Gaudio and lyrics by Bob Crewe, opens on 19 June 2013 at the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town, after a stint in Singapore and a sell-out leg in Johannesburg. It tells the candid, true-life story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. To be honest, the only Four Seasons I knew of before the show was the luxurious hotel featured in many movies, testament to my lack of musical knowledge from the 1960s. But once these four guys started singing, I recognised the original tunes that have been redone and popularised even further, songs like Big Girls Don't Cry , December 63 (Oh What a Night) and Can't Take My Eyes Off You. The Four Sea...

One of the very first conversations I had with my now husband was after my return from a US trip that  included a stint in New York - where I experienced temperatures to the south of zero and every type of precipitation.  This was followed by a skiing holiday at Lake Tahoe in Nevada.  He on the other hand spent two weeks in Thailand and after hearing his stories, an island holiday instantly appealed to me.  So a year later when we were discussing honeymoon destinations, the decision was easy. We would do a few days in the south on the proverbial tropical island, followed by a trip north to the jungle and then stop in Bangkok.  We departed on 11 May 2009 and returned three weeks later.  This was by far my most memorable travelling experience. Koh Samui   From Cape Town, it’s about an 18-hour flight to Thailand’s capital, Bangkok. Koh Samui is another 50 minute flight from Bangkok. We arrived in the evening and I was struck by the unconvent...