Of course Joe and Kevin Jonas were in the house on Tuesday night (March 18) to support their brother Nick Jonas in his return to Broadway in The Last Five Years. The siblings were reunited on the stage with Nick’s co-star, Adrienne Warren in a family snap at the kick-off of preview performances at the Hudson Theatre in New York.
The show tells the story of a relationship’s end from the perspective of aspiring novelist Jamie (Jonas) and struggling actress Cathy (Warren) in a Rashomon-like tale in which Jamie tells his side in chronological order and Cathy starts at the dissolution of their marriage and works her way backwards.
In the production in which Warren and Jonas are the only on-stage actors, Nick said in an Insta video earlier this week that returning to Broadway feels “so intense. This is a very intense show. And I am honestly ready for it, but it’s natural to feel a little nervous. So I think I’m trying to step into this with real focus and confidence, but it’s a big show. And it’s got a lot of fans all over the world.”
The Last Five Years premiered in Chicago in 2001 before moving to New York for an off-Broadway run in 2002 and a second off-Broadway stint in 2013. In 2015, it was adapted into a rom-com starring starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan.
The current production will officially open on April 6 and run for 14 weeks, closing on June 22. It marks Jonas’ return to Broadway 13 years after starring in the 2012 revival of the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
Watch Jonas and Warren take their first bows at the end of Tuesday night’s show below.
