March 11, 2006

Another Rave Review for Runaway Hit Jersey Boys

March 11th, 2006
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    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 [...]

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March 10, 2006

John Lloyd Young’s Journey from Brown to Broadway

March 10th, 2006
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    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 [...]

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March 5, 2006

Jersey Boys Appeals to a Wide Range of Ages

March 5th, 2006
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    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 [...]

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John Lloyd Young Featured on This Week’s “Broadway Beat”

March 5th, 2006
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    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 [...]

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March 3, 2006

John Lloyd Young Reflects on His Early Days on Off-Off Broadway

March 3rd, 2006
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    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 [...]

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March 2, 2006

The Four Seasons Trivia Question of the Day

March 2nd, 2006
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    I found this great photo on Oz Net Music Chart, Australia’s longest running Internet chart service. According to Oz Net, The Four Seasons had five number one singles in the United States but only two in Australia. They were both in the same year, perhaps the year of this classic group photo. Can you name [...]

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February 26, 2006

The Four Seasons–A Working-Man’s Group

February 26th, 2006
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    Atlantic City Weekly’s Steve Angelucci highlights the career of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, who appeared this weekend at Caesars this weekend on the heels of the successful Broadway show, Jersey Boys. Long before the term “doo-wop” came into being, Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi sang street-corner harmony that they [...]

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February 25, 2006

Another Photo of John Lloyd Young at Sardi’s

February 25th, 2006
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    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 [...]

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February 24, 2006

Frankie Valli’s Perseverance Helped to Get Jersey Boys on Stage

February 24th, 2006
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    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 [...]

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Frankie Valli Hangs On to What He’s Got…

February 24th, 2006
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    Wonder if the blue-collar kid from the Newark who had big dreams to be a singer ever thought his life story would be on Broadway? According to Chuck Darrow of the Asbury Park Press, Frankie Valli, the pop-rock legendary lead singer of the phenomenal chat-topping The Four Seasons, had that kind of dream, but never [...]

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February 23, 2006

John Lloyd Young’s Caricature Unveiled at Sardi’s

February 23rd, 2006
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    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, [...]

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Jersey Boys Has a BIG Celebrity Following

February 23rd, 2006
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    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 [...]

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February 22, 2006

Jersey Boys Rock Late Show!

February 22nd, 2006
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    On last night’s Late Show with David Letterman, musical director and sidekick Paul Shaffer couldn’t curb his enthusiasm as he talked about the night’s appearance from the cast of Jersey Boys! Shaffer raved to Letterman about how poignant show is and how you will laugh and cry when you see it (all true!), and how [...]

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February 21, 2006

John Lloyd Young To Be Honored at Sardi’s with a Caricature

February 21st, 2006
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    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 [...]

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Reminder: Watch Jersey Boys Cast Tonight on Letterman’s Show!

February 21st, 2006
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    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.

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February 19, 2006

John Lloyd Young–From Stuggling Actor to Broadway Phenom

February 19th, 2006
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    A lot can change in a year. Just ask actor John Lloyd Young, who’s currently starring as Frankie Valli in this season’s Broadway smash musical, Jersey Boys. Channing Gray, of The Providence Journal notes that a year ago, Brown grad Young was ushering for a Broadway show. Since his Broadway debut in November, The New [...]

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Frankie Valli’s Reflections on the Ups, the Downs, and the Smash Hit Jersey Boys

February 19th, 2006
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    The Providence Journal’s Leslie Gray Streeter states that The Four Seasons are a lot of things: American music icons, the 1960s standard-bearers of doo-wop pop, one of the few groups stateside to withstand and survive in the midst of Beatlemania and the craze over all things British, and the inspiration for one very popular Broadway [...]

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February 17, 2006

John Lloyd Young—The Hot Ticket on Broadway

February 17th, 2006
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    How hot is John Lloyd Young’s Broadway career? Young, who is making his Broadway debut playing Frankie Valli in this season’s smash hit, Jersey Boys, talked to Associated Press reporter Mark Kennedy about his early days as a struggling actor, his current success, and what may be next for him. While Young was studying acting [...]

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February 16, 2006

Frankie Valli’s Chart Topping Hits and the Smash Broadway Hit Jersey Boys

February 16th, 2006
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    In today’s St. Petersburg Times, Frankie Valli, legendary lead singer of the Four Seasons, talks to Marty Clear about the chart topping hits that people still come to hear, four decades later in concert. Valli also talks about his latest hit–Jersey Boys, the smash Broadway musical based on the story of the Four Seasons. Valli [...]

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