[NoHo Arts District, CA] – El Portal Theatre proudly presents Tony and Grammy Award winner John Lloyd Young: Broadway’s Jersey Boy.on Sunday, November 23 on the Debbie Reynolds Mainstage at the historic El Portal Theatre in the heart of the NoHo Arts District.
About John Lloyd Young: Broadway’s Jersey Boy
Tony and Grammy winner, John Lloyd Young, burst onto the scene as the charismatic original star of Jersey Boys on Broadway and on screen in the Warner Bros. movie, directed by Clint Eastwood.
Young’s appearance at El Portal Theatre marks the 20th Anniversary of Jersey Boys opening on Broadway!
His unique musical point of view has made him a hit with audiences across the globe. Young’s thrilling interpretations of classic favorites and unexpected, genre-bending knockouts range from nostalgic pop to R&B, from jazz to Broadway and beyond. The show features such classics as Sherry, Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, and Unchained Melody as well as iconic songs originally introduced by the likes of The Platters, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Smokey Robinson, and Roy Orbison.
As the original Frankie Valli in Broadway’s Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys, Young 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.
Over the years, Young has sung selections from Jersey Boys several times at the White House, in the halls of Congress, and to Kennedys, Clintons, Bushes, Obamas, Bidens, Trumps, Pences, 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, Young 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, Mar-a-Lago, 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.
About El Portal Theatre
El Portal Theatre is a cherished historic landmark nestled in the heart of North Hollywood, in the vibrant San Fernando Valley, just minutes from Universal Studios, Warner Bros., Disney, ABC, Radford, and NBC Burbank. Originally opened in 1926 as a vaudeville house, El Portal quickly became a cultural centerpiece. Over the decades, it evolved from hosting vaudeville acts to screening silent films and later Academy Award-winning movies, earning its place as the premier movie house in the Valley.
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