All the times Nick Jonas did theatre

The pop star, who grew up performing on the Broadway stage, returns with Adrienne Warren to star in Jason Robert Brown’s romantic drama The Last Five Years.

Nick Jonas may be a pop sensation, but musical theatre is part of his roots. In the spring, the 31-year-old pops back to Broadway with Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren (Tina) in The Last Five Years, Jason Robert Brown’s 2002 Off-Broadway heartbreaker now hitting Broadway for the first time.

Starring in the musical is the latest move for Jonas, whose dynamic career has taken him in many directions. He’s one third of the Grammy-nominated group Jonas Brothers, a solo recording artist whose hits might make others “Jealous,” and a screen actor whose credits include the theatre-centric NBC drama Smash.

On stage, The Last Five Years is as an intimate showcase for two actors. We can’t wait to see both stars step up – and you’re going to want to do the same. In the meantime, get to know more about Jonas’s theatre roles.

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A Christmas Carol

In 2000, Jonas played a young Scrooge and understudied Tiny Tim – and went on! – in Alan Menken, Lynn Ahrens, and Mike Ockrent’s musical version of Charles Dickens’s classic holiday heartwarmer. Frank Langella starred as the big, bad bah, humbug-er in the production at Madison Square Garden.

Annie Get Your Gun

This revival of the Irving Berlin musical opened in 1999 with a Tony-winning Bernadette Peters in the title role of sharpshooter Annie Oakley. Two years later, a young Jonas made his Broadway debut when he took over as Annie’s brother, Little Jake.

Beauty and the Beast

Talk about dishy. In the Broadway musical based on the animated Disney classic, lovely Belle falls for a cursed prince who’s been transformed into a beast. In 2002, Jonas took over the role of Chip, a teacup who’s really a royal servant. Chip takes part in two great songs – “Be Our Guest” and (a clue to the show's ending) “Human Again.”

Les Misérables

Set against 19th-century France’s social upheaval, the beloved musical based on the Victor Hugo classic revolves around ex-convict Jean Valjean's redemption. In 2002, toward the end of the Broadway premiere’s 16-year run, Jonas stepped up as the scrappy street urchin Gavroche.

Eight years later, Jonas made his debut in London's West End as Marius, a student revolutionary who falls for Valjean’s adopted daughter, Cosette. He also showed off his pipes in the musical’s 25th anniversary concert in the U.K. that year.

The Sound of Music

In a production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse in 2003, Jonas played Captain von Trapp's son Kurt, the kid who wonders what grass tastes like. When he wasn’t considering having the lawn for lunch, Kurt showed off in the song “Do-Re-Mi.”

Hairspray

In 2003, this deliciously fizzy musical set in 1962 Baltimore won eight Tonys, including Best Musical. In 2011, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Jonas strutted his stuff as dreamy Link Larkin with Tony-winning original Broadway stars Marissa Jaret Winokur and Harvey Fierstein. EW credited Jonas for doing his share to keep the teens in the audience “screaming all night.”

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

In this 50th anniversary revival of the Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning 1961 musical, Jonas took over the role of J. Pierrepont Finch, a window washer who cleverly climbs the corporate ladder. The role comes with great Frank Loesser songs including “Brotherhood of Man.” Jonas took over after Daniel Radcliffe wrapped a year-long run. (Darren Criss, also on Broadway this season in Maybe Happy Ending, covered for three weeks in between.)

Chicken & Biscuits

Jonas’s next role on Broadway was behind the scenes as producer on Chicken & Biscuits alongside his wife, Pryanka Chopra Jonas. This family dramedy by Douglas Lyons spins around a funeral, where secrets bubble up and tensions boil over.

Jonas Brothers on Broadway

From March 14-18, 2023, Nick Jonas played himself in this concert residency alongside his brothers Joe and Kevin. Subtitled “5 Albums, 5 Nights,” the show featured familiar tunes by the Grammy-nominated Jonas Brothers (“Cool,” “Lovebug”), solo hits by Nick (“Jealous,” “Chains”), and new songs (“Celebrate!”).

The Last Five Years

March 18, 2025 is the start date for the first Broadway run of Brown’s 2002 musical, which was made into a 2014 movie led by Pitch Perfect's Anna Kendrick and The Great Gatsby’s Jeremy Jordan. Jonas plays Jamie, and Warren is Cathy. The couple’s troubled love story unfolds through songs that go both backward and forward in time. Bring tissues.

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