From Stage to Screen: Adapting Jersey Boys
Jersey Boys is the story of the rise and fall of The Four Seasons, the “clean-cut,” all-American rock band that actually had two ex-cons and enough mob connections to satisfy a Scorsese film. Yet in the early 1960s the band sold themselves as the (Jersey) boys next door, and created some deathless tunes in the ...
John Lloyd Young is Frankie Valli in Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys
For a Broadway debut, it doesn’t get any better than winning the coveted quartet of stage awards. Such was the case for John Lloyd Young, who took home the 2006 Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards for lead actor in a musical following his stellar, if not life-altering, turn as Four ...
