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Young Raises Money for BC/EFA with BWW's Tony Video

By: Nov. 19, 2006
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John Lloyd Young, who took home the Tony for Best Actor in a Musical in 2006 is raising money via his official website for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. In addition to several items listed on his site and EBAY, the most recent addition is a limited number of signed DVDs of the exclusive video chronicling his Tony experience created by BroadwayWorld.com.

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Young states on his website, "Last time around, through this website alone, you helped raise over $12,000 for JERSEY BOYS' efforts, more than 10% of JERSEY BOYS' $110,000 total!  Now that JERSEY BOYS is a bona-fide hit and the 2006 Tony-winner for Best Musical, I think you and I together can reach $25,000, this time, and I'm determined for us to get there."

"John Lloyd and I were speaking a week ago about all the wonderful things BC/EFA does for the community and how supportive his fans were last year in his fundraising efforts," said BroadwayWorld.com's Multimedia Director Craig Brockman.  "John Lloyd is offering some pretty fantastic and unique items - so we came up with the idea to offer a limited number of fans the ability to get a signed copy of the exclusive video documentary we did the day and night of the Tonys to help him reach his personal goal."

Information on how you can pick up a copy of the signed DVD, or any of the other items John Lloyd Young is offering, visit his blog located on his official website.

In all, the musical won four of the coveted statues that night, including Best Musical. Christian Hoff took home the award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical as Tommy DeVito and Jersey Boys also scooped up the Best Lighting Design of a Musical award.

Jersey Boys is written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, choreography is by Sergio Trujillo, and is directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Des McAnuff. The show is currently playing at Broadway's August Wilson Theatre (245 West 52nd Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue). The show "is the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons: Frankie Valli (Lloyd 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.







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