Jersey Boys Blog

John Lloyd Young, star of Jersey Boys, made his Broadway debut as singer Frankie Valli in the megahit musical based on the ascent of the Four Seasons. In a recent Exitweekly.com article, Amy Kuperinsky talks to Young about his days as a struggling actor, his significant boost of experience from university plays and New Jersey [...]

New Orleans Times-Picayune theatre reviewer David Cuthbert observed that the party in the August Wilson Theatre at Jersey Boys started even before the show began, with the audience clapping in unison with the music right from the start. He was especially impressed with the sensational performance by John Lloyd Young, who brings Frankie Valli to [...]

Taylor Barnes of the Brown Daily Herald provides an insightful interview with ’98 alum John Lloyd Young, who is garnering much Tony nomination buzz for his portrayal of Frankie Valli in the Broadway blockbuster hit Jersey Boys. When asked why he chose Brown University over a conservatory to further his theater career, Young tells Barnes [...]

Broadwaywold.com has some great photos taken by Ben Strothmann from Monday night’s “Ain’t Nothin’ Like a Dame” benefit, including pictures of Jersey Girls Heather Ferguson, Jennifer Naimo, Erica Piccininni, and Sara Schmidt. You’ll also see some photos of Jersey Boys Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, J. Robert Spencer, and John Lloyd Young, who made a surprise [...]

Some recent threads on Broadwayworld.com’s message board said that last night’s “Nothin’ Like a Dame” benefit concert was terrific and included an appearance by Jersey Boys Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, J. Robert Spencer, and John Lloyd Young. The Jersey Girls (Heather Ferguson, Jennifer Naimo, Erica Piccinni, and Sara Schmidt) came out in Jersey Boys costumes [...]

The hit musical Jersey Boys, of course, features the phenomenal chart-topping hits of one of the biggest pop groups of all time, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. The appeal of this music reaches way beyond the Baby Boomers or even the Gen- X’ers. You can download a video of two-year old fan Ryan singing [...]

This week’s “Broadway Beat”, available on streaming video on Broadwayworld.com, features a fabulous interview with Jersey Boys‘ John Lloyd Young at his caricature unveiling at Sardi’s last month. The program’s host, Richard Ridge, talks to Young about his breakout role playing Frankie Valli, his years as a struggling actor in New York, about being “warmly [...]

Reporter Amy Krivohlavek of Offoffonline.com’s interview with Jersey Boys’ John Lloyd Young provides one of the most interesting and in-depth interviews regarding his early days in off-off Broadway theater. Even though Young is now receiving accolades playing Frankie Valli from critics and fans alike as he plays to sold-out audiences eight times a week, his [...]

Broadway.com covered Sopranos’ star James Gandolfini’s visit last month with the Jersey Boys gang after seeing the hit musical with old acting pal Arthur J. Nascavella and Sgt. John Lankford, who escorted him to Iraq.

You’re in for a treat if you check out Broadway.com’s photo coverage of John Lloyd Young’s caricature unveiling at Sardi’s last week. You’ll see photos of JLY with his dad, Karl Young, his girlfriend, Alison Franck, several of his friends (including castmate Christian Hoff), co-book writer Rick Elice, and his boss, Jersey Boys lead producer–Dodger [...]

BroadwayWorld.com’s Linda Lenzi provides some spectacular photo coverage of The New York Musical Theatre Festival’s (NYMF) one-night only benefit concert, The Best of Fest Bash, on Monday, February 27 at Dodger Stages. Included in the photos are Jersey Boys’ John Lloyd Young, who was on hand to co-host the benefit. In addition to the photo [...]

Check out the Playbll.com photo of John Lloyd Young posing with his caricature at the Sardi’s unveiling on February 23. Sardi’s has a long-held tradition of honoring Broadway’s biggest headline grabbers each season. Young, who portrays Frankie Valli in the stage show, was on hand to see his likeness join the many others on Sardi’s [...]

Although Frankie Valli lives 3,000 miles from the August Wilson Theater, he is the star of this season’s hit musical, Jersey Boys. How’d that happen? Valli tells NorthJersey.com’s David J. Spatz that his persistence to bring the story of the Four Seasons to the stage finally paid off. At first, Valli and his partner, original [...]

John Lloyd Young, currently starring as Frankie Valli in Broadway’s megahit Jersey Boys, had his caricature unveiled at Sardi’s Restaurant on Thursday, February 23, 2006. Young’s likeness will join the ranks of Broadway royalty who have been honored with a caricature on the famous walls of Sardi’s. For photos of Young, Alison Franck, Christian Hoff, [...]

NYC City Guide Magazine reports that the unstoppable musical Jersey Boys has a big, big celebrity following. Among the A-listers spotted taking in the splendid Four Seasons biography in recent weeks were Nicole Kidman, Kevin Spacey, Pierce Brosnan, Katie Couric, Michelle Pfeiffer, Calvin Klein, Joan Rivers, Larry David, Shirley MacLaine, Harvey Keitel, Helen Hunt, Sherry [...]

Jersey Boys cast members will be making appearances at events throughout New York City over the next month. Below are some announcements about upcoming events: 2/27/06: John Lloyd Young will be among the performers making a special appearance at the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) in the one-night-only benefit concert, The Best of Fest [...]

Both Broadwayworld.com and Playbill.com report that John Lloyd Young, currently starring as Frankie Valli in Broadway’s hit musical Jersey Boys, will have his caricature unveiled at Sardi’s Restaurant on Thursday, February 23, 2006 at a 5PM presentation. Young will join Broadway luminaries who have been honored on the famous wall of Sardi’s, a Broadway landmark [...]

From Broadwayworld.com News Desk: The cast of Broadway’s Jersey Boys will perform on CBS’s “Late Show with David Letterman” tonight Tuesday, February 21 between 11:35pm and 12:35am (Eastern). Stars Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, J. Robert Spencer and John Lloyd Young will lead the cast in performing several Four Seasons tunes from the hit Broadway musical.

Broadwayworld.com is now featuring streaming video episodes of Broadway Beat, the popular weekly television program for and about the theater world with host Richard Ridge. This week’s Broadway Beat features for Encore’s “Kismet,” “ABC Daytime Salutes BC/EFA,” and The Drama League’s “So In Love Concert.” At The Drama League’s “So In Love Concert,” Ridge talks [...]