- On the opening evening of his new musical The Final 5 Years on April 6, Nick Jonas advised PEOPLE he feels “intimidated” performing within the Broadway present
- “However I believe that is the great thing about storytelling and being an artist and an actor, is that you simply get to take huge dangers and put your self on the market,” he says
- Nick stars alongside Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren in Jason Robert Brown’s two-person musical, which is marking its first Broadway manufacturing
Nick Jonas has carried out numerous live shows world wide as a singer — however on the subject of treading the boards on Broadway, the star admits to experiencing a little bit of stage fright.
On the opening evening of his new musical The Final 5 Years on the Hudson Theatre in New York Metropolis on Sunday, April 6, Nick, 32, advised PEOPLE that whereas he is comfy performing in entrance of his household, it is rather a lot totally different when he is placing on a present for theater fans.
“The factor for me is there are lots of people who love this present, who’ve performed these roles in numerous productions, their highschool or school or no matter. And it is these people who’ve completed it that I really feel most intimidated to do it for,” he explains.
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“However I believe that is the great thing about storytelling and being an artist and an actor, is that you simply get to take huge dangers and put your self on the market. And I like it,” he continues. “As intimidating as it’d really feel generally, I believe it is a actually gratifying expertise to get out and actually put your self on the market and take huge swings and see what occurs.”
In The Final 5 Years — Jason Robert Brown’s two-person musical, which is marking its first Broadway manufacturing — Nick stars alongside Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren. The story explores the connection between up-and-coming novelist Jamie Wellerstein and struggling actress Cathy Hiatt, advised from every of their views and two totally different timelines.
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Nick tells PEOPLE the spotlight of the present for him is when his costar Warren, 37, belts out the music “Summer time in Ohio.”
“She brings a lot humor to this quantity,” he raves. “I believe she is attending to type of flex her varied muscle tissue, musical theater and the soulfulness she brings to the vocals. It is only a actually unbelievable efficiency.”
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As for his character, Nick says he likes to sing “A Miracle Would Occur,” explaining, “It is a humorous type of very actual state of affairs I believe lots of people undergo, however it’s a enjoyable one.”
Within the lead-up to Sunday’s opening evening — the place he was joined on the crimson carpet by spouse Priyanka Chopra and brothers Joe Jonas, Kevin Jonas and Frankie Jonas — Nick bought into the behavior of strolling to the theater for work every single day. He says followers method him “on a regular basis” throughout his commute.
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Nick appreciates the nice and cozy present of assist.
“It is a actually good confidence increase earlier than you go and do a present,” he tells PEOPLE. “It is good to fulfill folks on the road. Most individuals are type.”
“And once they’re not calling me Joe or Kevin, it is nice,” he jokingly provides, referring to his siblings, with whom he performs within the Jonas Brothers.
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Nick additionally famous how his Broadway run — he’ll star in The Final 5 Years by June 22 — has afforded him a possibility to place his often hectic journey schedule on pause and revel in some high quality time along with his household in New York Metropolis. He and Chopra, 42, share 3-year-old daughter Malti Marie.
“[Malti] loves being in New York, and I believe this time for us as a household has been great,” he tells PEOPLE. “We’re so used to being in 10 totally different cities in 10 totally different days. And so to be in a single place and have this time collectively has been very nice.”
“We have been exploring a bit and retaining [Malti] energetic and busy. We’re each clearly busy mother and father, however we have been discovering time to spend time as a household and join amid our loopy schedules and it has been beautiful,” he provides.