'ABC World News Tonight' Features John Lloyd Young, 6/16

John Lloyd Young, who recently won a Tony Award for his performance as Frankie Valli in Broadway's Jersey Boys, will be featured on"ABC World News Tonight," hosted by Charles Gibson, on Friday, June 16th. The show airs 6:30-7:00pm EST. ABC will interview Young about his recent Tony win and go backstage as he prepares to perform at the August Wilson Theatre.

Jersey Boys is the winner of the 2006 Tony Award® for Best Musical. Other Tony Awards® include Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical (John Lloyd Young), Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical (Christian Hoff), and Best Lighting Design of a Musical (Howell Binkley).

Jersey Boys is written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, and directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Des McAnuff. The show is playing at Broadway's August Wilson Theatre (245 West 52nd Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue).

Jersey Boys "is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli (Young), Bob Gaudio (Daniel Reichard), Tommy DeVito (Hoff) and Nick Massi (J. Robert Spencer). This is the story of how a group of blue-collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks became one of the biggest American pop music sensations of all time. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide - all before they were thirty," state press notes.

A cast recording is available now on Rhino Records.

Tickets to Jersey Boys are available by calling Telecharge.com at (212) 239-6200, (800) 432-7250 outside the NY metro area, online at Telecharge.com, and at the August Wilson Theatre box office (245 West 52nd Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue). Group sales tickets available by calling (877) 5-Dodger / (877) 536-3437. Visit www.JerseyBoysBroadway.com for more information on the show.