Jersey Boys Tony Winner Young Will End Broadway Run at Thanksgiving
By Ernio Hernandez
22 Oct 2007
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John Lloyd Young
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| photo by Peter Hurley | John Lloyd Young, the Tony Award-winning star of Broadway's Jersey Boys, will play his final performance in the Tony-winning musical at the August Wilson Theatre prior to Thanksgiving Day.
Young — who won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his work in Jersey Boys — noted on his website that he "finishes his Tony-winning run as 'Frankie Valli' in the original Broadway cast of Jersey Boys Thanksgiving 2007." (Production spokespersons could not confirm any details at press time, although Playbill.com has learned that Young's last day will likely be Nov. 21.)
The star is scheduled to perform a solo concert as part of Lincoln Center's American Songbook Series on Feb. 23, 2008, at New York City's Allen Room at Columbus Circle.
It was also recently announced that Young's co-star, Daniel Reichard, will depart Jersey Boys following the Jan. 6, 2008 performance. The singing actor is then scheduled to play the title role in the New York City Opera's mounting of Leonard Bernstein's Candide, which begins performances April 8, 2008.
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Des McAnuff (The Who's Tommy, Big River) directs the story of American pop group The Four Seasons — the highs, the lows and all in between — which comes to life in the musical Jersey Boys with the help of their hits "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Walk Like A Man," "December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)" and more. The show began on Broadway Oct. 4, 2005 and opened at the August Wilson Theatre Nov. 6.
Jersey Boys features music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, and a book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice. The production garnered four Tony Award wins for stars John Lloyd Young and Christian Hoff, lighting designer Howell Binkley and for the top prize Best Musical.
Young (The Drawer Boy, The Chosen at Paper Mill) joined the cast for the Broadway run. Original stars Hoff (The Who's Tommy), Daniel Reichard (Radiant Baby, The Thing About Men) and J. Robert Spencer (Side Show, Lucky Duck) reprise their roles from the La Jolla Playhouse world premiere.
Tickets to Jersey Boys at the August Wilson Theatre, 245 W. 52nd Street, are available by calling (212) 239-6200 or (800) 432-7250. For more information on all incarnations of the musical, visit www.JerseyBoysInfo.com.
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