Jersey Boys on Channel 7 right now!! New Years Eve Performances — Page 2

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CurtainPullDowner, I have noticed you make a habit of jumping into almost every Jersey Boys thread and slamming it. Also, started calling John Lloyd Young, John Little Young.

Why? Has he done something to you, personally? I dunno, seems kind of petty. Not sure why you feel the need to attack him.

Did you ever bother to see him in Jersey Boys? I recall a post saying you had no desire to even see him in the show.

I know nothing about his missing so many shows. I know he was sick. I know I have read he is now doing 6 shows a week.

Rath, I am now going to tell you that the TV appearances do not ever do any justice to his acting performance. You need to see him in the show to understand why he won the Tony. I just saw it again (first time since last year) and he is even better...which I find hard to believe.

I don't understand, ever, why people feel free to judge any performer, without seeing a complete performance in the show itself.

Because those incomplete performances have the sole purpose of selling the performers and shows. Why should we spend our hard-earned cash on something that can't hold our attention in positive way for less than five minutes?

I'm not judging his entire performance as I haven't seen it. I'm saying what he's shown me isn't enough to make me want to bother.

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Not from what they've shown me.

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In all honesty, if you watch some of the Frankie Valli performances, and you look at Frankie's face, he's making what my voice teacher, Tim, calls "angry face". JLY isn't the only one who does it, if you look at last year's Broadway Under The Stars, at certain points, Michael Longoria was making faces to, squinting his eyebrows, looking like he was going to cry.

As far as their New Years Rockin Eve performance goes, they were fantastic as always. I didn't think that they were going to do "Beggin", but I had a feeling that they were going to do "December 1963(Oh What A Night)". Out of all of them, Bobby looked like he had the most energy, jumping everywhere, getting the crowd pumped.

The only thing I didn't like was when Ryan Seacrest introduced them, he said "J.Robert Spencer, Daniel Reichard, Christian Hoff, and Tony Winner John Lloyd Young." Umm, Christian is a Tony Winner too, I remember I said the same thing to my sister.

Updated On: 1/2/07 at 12:27 PM

I was in Times Square during the performance and tried to video some of it
Yeah, they sounded good
Good for the show, too

:)

I also loved the performance! What a talented group of singers/actors they are! My husband and I saw the play in October with the full cast and truly enjoyed it...we live in Tampa and made a special trip to NYC to see Jersey Boys. In my humble opinion (I am a fan of musical theater and have been for many years, but I'm not an expert and certainly not even consider passing judgement on an actor sight unseen), I think John Lloyd Young's voice is amazing. All four of the principals have great futures, and I look foward to their next projects!

John is so much better live than he is on TV.

I loved that they did 'Beggin'!

I love Jersey Boys even though I havent seen the show yet, I have seen every TV performance. I agree about JLY's sneer he looks so angry while the other three look very happy to be there. Is this done on purpose. Plus missing performances is not cool.

I was SO excited to see Jersey Boys on ABC, they gave a great performance! (off topic: if anyone stuck around they would have seen a performance by Meatloaf that made me want to throw my doll house sized TV out of my apt window...seriously, he was embarrassingly dreadful *flinches just thinking about it*)

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