Baring It All with Call Me Adam Podcast Interview
Season 3:
Episode 2:
John Lloyd Young
Jersey Boys' Stage Mishaps, Fan Questions
I'm so excited to welcome back John Lloyd Young who won the Tony & Grammy Award for playing Frankie Valli in the Tony Award Winning musical Jersey Boys.
In this episode, John Lloyd is Baring It All with Call Me Adam about:
- Jersey Boys stage mishaps,
- Upcoming Feinstein's/54 Below concerts
- We take some fan questions!
Feinstein's/54 Below Concerts:
- January 25-28 & 30, 2022: John Lloyd Young: Broadwayâs Jersey Boy - a celebration of classic hits from the â50s and â60s presented in the authentic acoustic style of original rock ânâ roll, Doo-Wop and R&B standards.
- January 29, 2022:Â John Lloyd Young's Broadway - interprets the showstoppers that shaped John Lloyd's earliest Broadway aspirations.
Special Thanks:
- Candi Adams, Candi Adams PR
- Theme Song by Bobby Cronin
- Podcast Logo by Liam O'Donnell
- Edited by Drew Kaufman
- Outro Music Underscore by CueTique
More on John Lloyd:
Film, stage and concert artist, John Lloyd Young, is a Tony and Grammy winner, multi-Platinum recording artist and Presidential Appointee. As the original âFrankie Valliâ in Broadwayâs Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys, John Lloyd garnered unprecedented accolades from the New York and national media, going on to become the only American actor to date to win all four major Broadway Leading Actor in a Musical honors for a Broadway debut: the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Award. John Lloyd starred in Jersey Boys on Londonâs West End, and was hand-picked by director Clint Eastwood to reprise his role in the Warner Bros. film adaptation, becoming one of only a select-few actors in entertainment history to take his Tony-winning role to the big screen.
Over the years, John Lloyd has sung selections from Jersey Boys several times at the White House, in the halls of Congress, and to Kennedys, Clintons, Bushes, Obamas, Bidens, the Prime Minister and First Lady, Shinzo and Akie Abe, of Japan and the President and First Lady of Finland, Sauli Niinistö and Jenni Haukio.
As a concert artist, John Lloyd has taken his expertly-curated repertoire of classic pop and R&B to filled-to-capacity rooms, thrilling his audiences with a âdisciplined one-in-a-million high tenor shading into falsetto that he can direct through the stratosphereâ (The New York Times). He has played The White House, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Hollywood Bowl, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the U.S. Embassy in Finland, Clint Eastwoodâs Tehama Country Club, New Yorkâs CafĂ© Carlyle, Feinsteinâs in NY and San Francisco, Radio City Music Hall, the Macyâs Thanksgiving Parade and New Yearâs Eve in Times Square.
Appointed to the Presidentâs Committee on the Arts and Humanities by Barack Obama, John Lloyd was sworn in at the Supreme Court of the United States by Justice Elena Kagan. As a member of the Committee, John Lloyd represented the United States on the first U.S. Cultural Mission to the Republic of Cuba, along with fellow Committee members Kal Penn and Alfre Woodard, guest artists Usher, Smokey Robinson, Dave Matthews, violinist Joshua Bell, playwright John Guare, U.S. arts officials, including the Chairs of the NEA and the Smithsonian Institution, and members of Congress.
Be The First To Know
The Call Me Adam Digest will give you a front row seat to my interviews, podcast episodes & other behind-the-curtain adventures.
We will never sell your information. Yon can unsubscribe at any time.