Adam, Did You Know...John Lloyd Young from Broadway's Jersey Boys

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Adam, Did You Know John Lloyd Young
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2021 Interview:

John Lloyd Young, the Tony and Grammy Award winner who won the coveted awards for playing Frankie Valli in the Tony Award winning musical Jersey Boys, is getting ready for his next live streamed concert, John Lloyd Young By Request: Live From Las Vegas.

Before he takes the stage, John Lloyd took time out to share some everyday details about himself in a new interview series entitled, Adam, Did You Know?

1. TV Series & Movie you could watch over & over again?

  • TV Series: Unsolved Mysteries
  • Movie: Die Hard

2. Go to take out food? Sushi

3. Favorite number? 18

4. Favorite piece of furniture? Reading chair and Ottoman

5. Favorite toothpaste? Aqua Fresh

6. Favorite love song? “You Are So Beautiful”

7. Swear word you say the most? Damn

8. Coffee or Tea? How do you take it?

  • Coffee: Black Coffee
  • Tea: Iced Tea

9. One person you'd like to work with again? Sammi Cannold

10. If you could become any animal, what animal would you want to be? Peregrine Falcon

On May 1, 2021 John Lloyd will be live streaming from Las Vegas’ The Space in a very special show, John Lloyd Young By Request: Live From Las Vegas. The songs will be chosen entirely by fans & ticket holders. 

To request a song: visit John Lloyd’s website or follow him on social media for more details.

Connect with John Lloyd: Website, Facebook, Instagram

More John Lloyd Young Interviews:

2018 (Read Here): Broadway's Jersey Boys & Beyond
2021 (Listen Here): Podcast - Season 2: Episode 5: Jersey Boys + Legacy
2021 (Listen Here): Podcast - Season 2: Episode 11: Lessons Learned
2022 (Listen Here): Podcast - Season 3: Episode 2: Jersey Boys, Stage Mishaps, Fan Questions


More on John Lloyd Young:

Film, stage and concert artist, John Lloyd Young, is a Tony and Grammy winner, multi-Platinum recording artist and Presidential Appointee. As the original “Frankie Valli” in Broadway’s 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 London’s 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 “disciplined one-in-a-million high tenor shading into falsetto that he can direct through the stratosphere” (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 Eastwood’s Tehama Country Club, New York’s Café Carlyle, Feinstein’s in NY and San Francisco, Radio City Music Hall, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade and New Year’s Eve in Times Square.

Appointed to the President’s 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.

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