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#1jersey boys
Posted: 6/27/07 at 3:36pmhow many shows a week does JLY actually do? I'm guessing when my friend said 4 he was joking?
Can, can I have it?
#2re: jersey boys
Posted: 6/27/07 at 3:36pm6
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#2re: jersey boys
Posted: 6/27/07 at 3:38pmI guess he went to The LaChanze School for Tony Winners(tm)
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bwaygal1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/07
#3re: jersey boys
Posted: 6/27/07 at 3:57pm
In his defense-he does six shows a week because vocally he arguably has the most challenging male role on Broadway. (I think my avatar has the hardest female role.)
John Lloyd Young doesn't want to ruin his voice by trying to push through those extra two performances a week. It's much better for him to rest and be 100% than to be less than stellar.
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#4re: jersey boys
Posted: 6/27/07 at 3:59pmAnd didn't he have an alternate BEFORE he won the Tony?
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#5re: jersey boys
Posted: 6/27/07 at 4:02pmI have no idea. I was just being a bitch to be a bitch. I couldn't care either way. Though if I was some sucker who paid $400 for a seat, I'd be a little ticked (though I will never, ever be that sucker)
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bwaygal1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/07
#6re: jersey boys
Posted: 6/27/07 at 4:02pm
Only a standby. I'm sure there was an unspoken understanding that since the Tony voters wanted to see him and not his alternate, he would get the alternate after he won the Tony.
"A birdcage I plan to hang. I'll get to that someday. A birdcage for a bird who flew away...Around the world."
"Life is a cabaret old chum, only a cabaret old chum, and I love a cabaret!"-RIP Natasha Richardson-I was honored to have witnessed her performance as Sally Bowles.
popular_elphie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/05
#7re: jersey boys
Posted: 6/27/07 at 9:17pm
bwaygal1, I think Christine Daae may be the hardest (vocal-wise) role on Broadway.
He's out this and next week. I was around the theater today, and people were raving about Michael Longoria. No worries.
wicked_mimi
Leading Actor Joined: 11/24/04
#8re: jersey boys
Posted: 6/27/07 at 11:57pm
John isn't the only person who plays Frankie (there are two tours) and neither one of those actors do 8 shows a week either. It is simply too vocally demanding a show. John used to do 8 shows a week before his first contract was renewed and always had the option of doing 7 if he felt he needed a show off. When he got his new contract after the Tonys though it was decided that he, along with all future Frankie's, would only do 6 shows a week with another person doing the matinees on 2 show days.
He never had an alternate. If he wasn't on an understudy went on. And it wasn't so much the fact that he won the Tony that he stopped doing 8 shows a week... it was the fact that was when his contract was up.
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