The Midtown Men are set to take the River Center by Storm: Daniel Reichard gives DIG the inside scoop.

Over seven years ago, John Lloyd Young, Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, and J. Robert Spencer took to the stage in the heavily-awarded and critically acclaimed Broadway musical Jersey Boys. After concluding a stellar run on the musical, which is presented as a kind of documentary about the lives of 1960s musical quartet The Four Seasons, the four vocalists reunited as The Midtown Men in 2007, the first time that a vocal group has been formed from the principal cast of a Broadway show.

The Midtown Men are set to perform 140 shows on their current tour, which lands in Baton Rouge at the River Center Theatre on November 26.

A History of Violence: Elephant’s Graveyard examines America’s relationship with violent spectacle through pop-history introspective.

On September 12, 1916, a circus elephant named Mary flew into a momentary rage on a very public street and killed her inexperienced handler, Walter “Red” Elridge in Kingsport, Tennessee. The following day, Sparks World Famous Shows proprietor Charlie Sparks reluctantly transported Mary 35 miles north to the town of Erwin. There, she was put to death before an audience of over 2500 in a bizarre display that resembled a public execution—or a lynching. The power required to electrocute the elephant was inconceivable at the time; tearing her apart with steam-powered locomotives was determined to be too grisly. Instead, she was hung by her neck from a railway crane.

News of the event spread, along with a photograph of Mary so haunting that its afterimage was burned into the public consciousness of the last century.