Apr 26th 2012 10:30PM

Attention Nick Jonas Fans!

Nick only has two months left in his Broadway run, starring as Finch in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying! If you haven’t succeeded yet in seeing the star-studded musical, we’re here to help.

One lucky winner will score a pair of plane tickets to the Big Apple, two nights at the trendy Roger Smith Hotel New York, two tickets to “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” a “Meet & Greet” with Jonas and a signed Playbill and poster!

Enter once (may the odds be ever in your favor!) by filling out the form here before 6:59 PM PST / 9:59PM EST on April 30, 2012.

The Nick Jonas in NYC Giveaway is open only to individuals who are legal residents of the fifty (50) United States (including the District of Columbia), between 13 and 26 years of age. Brought to you by: Cambio, Roger Smith Hotel New York & Serino/Coyne. See the official contest rules.

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Hey everyone! I hope you’re all doing well. I’ve been great… just enjoying the last few days of the holiday break. Its been such an amazing year, and I can’t wait for all the amazing things coming up in 2012! I can’t believe I start rehearsals for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in less than a week! I have been so blessed reading all your amazing tweets wishing me good luck, and telling me you’re coming to see the show! How was everyones holiday? Did you get what you wanted? Did you enjoy time with your family and loved ones? I did! I’ve been Hawaii enjoying quality time with my loved ones. We had so many conversations about how blessed we all are by your continued support and dedication. You are truly the best fans in the whole word, and we all respect and love you with all our hearts. I pray that you all have an amazing New Year… and I look forward to seeing you in the big apple in 2012.
yours truly,
NJ

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Climbing the Ladder
Jonas Brother Nick heads back to Broadway in How to Succeed.
Posted December 12, 2011 by Melinda Newman

Long before Nick Jonas became a teen idol as part of the Jonas Brothers, he was a Broadway baby.
On January 24, when he starts a six-month run as the indefatigable J. Pierrepont Finch in the Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on Broadway, it will mark a return to Jonas’s first love.

How to Succeed ends a nine-year absence from the Great White Way for Jonas. He first trod the boards when he was eight in A Christmas Carol, while growing up in Wyckoff with his parents and three brothers. Roles in Annie Get Your Gun with Reba McEntire, Beauty and the Beast and Les Miserables followed.

Shortly thereafter, Jonas shifted his focus to a recording career and signed with Columbia Records, initially as a solo artist before the label brought in older siblings Joe and Kevin to form the Jonas Brothers. The group then moved to Disney-owned Hollywood Records and, with the power of the Disney hit-making machine behind them, including their own show on the Disney Channel, the brothers became global superstars. Among other achievements, they were the first group ever to have three albums simultaneously in the top 10 of the Billboard album chart.

The siblings, who last toured in 2010, are taking a break, although Jonas, who released a solo album in 2010 as Nick Jonas and the Administration, says they may record again.

At 19, Jonas has the poise and intensity of a seasoned performer. All those years of giving interviews and being on stage have served him well; there’s never an “um” or “like” in his conversation, and he speaks extemporaneously with ease. Even though Jonas is young to play the part made famous first by Robert Morse and then Matthew Broderick, the show’s director and choreographer, Rob Ashford, believes he has the right actor, especially since this new production is built around a younger Finch. The current run began last year with Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame in the role of Finch, a fresh-faced go-getter who strives to climb the corporate ladder by following the dictates of a self-help book.

“Nick fits the bill perfectly,” says Ashford. “You can imagine his Finch at the moment in his life when he wants success and has the determination to follow the book’s advice at almost any cost.

Finch also needs to be able to sing and dance, as well as act. Nick has all those talents and the charm to get the audience behind him on his journey.” Also, says Ashford, given Jonas’s history, “he knows the amount of work it takes to prepare for the role and how much it takes to sustain an eight-show week. I think he’s very excited by that challenge.”

Indeed, Jonas looks forward to being a song-and-dance man. “There’s something to be said about being able to act, sing and dance all on one stage, where you can put it all together in front of an audience that is gripped by the show and the story,” he says. “It’s such an amazing and fulfilling thing as a performer.”

Jonas’s path to Broadway began at the age of three, when his family moved from Dallas to Franklin Avenue in Wyckoff after his pastor father was offered a position at Wyckoff Assembly church. A few years later, his parents came home from seeing Les Miserables and remarked that they knew he was capable of a similar role. That passing comment planted a seed with Nick. “My whole attitude from the time I was young was I want to do this, and it felt like it was already a part of me,” he says.

A little while later, the natural performer was singing away in the beauty salon as his mom was getting her hair done. A fellow patron heard his strong voice and gave Jonas’s mom the name of a talent manager. Next stop, Broadway.

An early misstep only made Jonas more determined to succeed. His roles in A Christmas Carol included Tiny Tim’s understudy, and he had to step in one night with minimal notice and only one short rehearsal. “The first couple of chords of music start, and I’m standing there waiting to sing, and it’s the only moment of my entire life and my entire career where I had stage fright and I just froze,” he says. The incident lasted for exactly 32 bars of music—but it left an impression that will last a lifetime. “I was basically so humiliated that I decided that I would never ever have stage fright again, and from that moment on I didn’t.”

For the first few years as he moved from one show to the next and before his mother began home schooling him, Jonas balanced his Broadway duties with his regular elementary school schedule at Eastern Christian Academy in Midland Park. On Mondays and Tuesdays, he would attend school full time. On Wednesdays—matinee days—he’d leave school at 10 am, and then go back to full school days on Thursday and Friday. “It was a pretty good schedule. I’d have to be in the city every night by about 7:30 for a 8 pm show,” Jonas recalls. “I was not tired. I think a lot of that was because I enjoyed what I was doing.”

Plus, it was “pretty fun” getting paid at 8 years old. “I’m not going to lie,” he says. “I was aware of finances and trying to be a good steward of my money at a young age,” although he admits the mammoth Times Square Toys “R” Us, which he passed on the way to the theater, got its fair share of his hard-earned money.

Jonas still found time to hang out with his friends at the local Dairy Queen and Boulder Run shopping center and to play sports, including participating on a T-ball team and in a soccer league. “I played two or three years,” he says of his soccer career. “My dad coached the team [even though] he’d never played a day in his life or watched a full game. He did a great job. We were actually undefeated three years in a row.”

When Jonas was 13, the family moved to Little Falls. “In that house, we basically wrote the first record we released on Hollywood. It has a special place in our hearts,” Jonas says. “We were living in a three-bedroom home—four boys, our parents and an uncle.” That self-titled disc became the first of two platinum albums for the brothers, signifying U.S. sales of more than 1 million copies each. As the brothers’ career soared, the Jonas family relocated to Los Angeles. They have since returned to a family home in Texas.

Jonas’s oldest brother, Kevin, 24, has moved back to New Jersey; he lives in Montvale with his wife, Dani, who is originally from Denville. Jonas, who has rented an apartment in Manhattan for his Broadway tenure, says he looks forward to “enjoying the quiet” with them in Montvale on his days off.

As far as making New Jersey his home again, Jonas would never rule it out. “There might come a time and I want to settle down and be in a peaceful place,” he says. “It depends on the season in my life…. I consider [New Jersey] where I grew up. I love New Jersey with all my heart.”

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Welcome to FanDrop – the most awesome way to experience a live performance with your favorite music artists. In this first installment, watch as 20 lucky fans get dropped into a secret rehearsal with Nick Jonas for an exclusive intimate concert and a behind-the-scenes experience. Nick was nice enough to share his birthday with the lucky fans who were more than happy to sing along with the singer as he and his band rehearsed for his upcoming tour dates in South America.

Catch the premiere episode of FanDrop on Tuesday, December 13th at 8PM EST / 5PM PST.

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Of all the mood-elevating musicals spawned in the last decade, “Hairspray,” based on John Waters’ bouncy 1988 film, has always been for me the most reliably uplifting. Friday night’s opening at the Hollywood Bowl, where the show touched down for a blissful weekend, offered an extra-strength formula of this merry fable of racial integration at a local Baltimore TV show, in which teens with formidable hairdos compete on the dance floor for the title of Miss Teenage Hairspray.

Back in their colorfully low-rent, early 1960s garb, Harvey Fierstein and Marissa Jaret Winokur reprised their Tony-winning performances as the sizable mother-daughter team of Edna, house-frump extraordinaire, and Tracy Turnblad, would-be queen of the hop. The show’s lovable leads, as fizzy as they were on Broadway, were backed by a glittering supporting cast that featured some captivating crooning by Nick Jonas (cue the squealing Jonas Brothers fans) in the role of heartthrob Link Larkin, one of the dance show regulars who sees past Tracy’s girth and falls in love with her effervescent spirit.

Musicals at the Bowl aren’t a natural fit. The oceanic vastness of the stage typically leaves actors swimming for their lives as rip currents take them to places only visible on the giant video screens. But director Jerry Mitchell, whose original choreography was always one of the chief assets of “Hairspray,” kept this 2003 best musical Tony winner as tightly focused as possible. The opening number “Good Morning Baltimore,” recalibrated around David Rockwell’s enlarged set, seemed to lack some of its usual verve, but the production’s initial shyness was quickly lost as the actors found their footing and released themselves to the madcap adventure of Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan’s appropriately loose-jointed book.

Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman’s pastiche score, with its irresistible R&B hooks and winking lyrics, allows “Hairspray” to thrive in a format that feels like a hybrid between a fully-staged affair and a concert. Naturally, it helps to have a singer as electric as recording artist Darlene Love in the role of Motormouth Maybelle, whose gospel-tinged civil rights number, “I Know Where I’ve been,” was so sumptuously delivered it deserved an immediate encore. Love’s legendary voice, aged like a brilliant Bordeaux, melted refrains into aural ecstasy.

Nearly everything, save the microphone of Susan Anton, who played (somewhat wobbly, truth be told) the snooty stage mother of Tara Macri’s menacing Amber Von Tussle, was working. Drew Carey, as Wilbur, Edna’s amorous spouse and Tracy’s indulgent dad, was affectionately game. John Stamos, while vocally not very commanding, played TV host Corny Collins with his patented mischievous charm. Corbin Bleu, of the “High School Musical” franchise, was a slyly charismatic Seaweed J. Stubbs, who bucks up Tracy’s morale in detention by teaching her some fresh dance moves from the black side of town. Diana DeGarmo, alum of “American Idol” and the Broadway production of “Hairspray,” had spry fun returning to the part of Penny Pingleton, Tracy’s BFF who trades in her dopey skittishness for seductive brazenness once Seaweed’s kiss leaves her swooning.

Jonas is a bona fide trouper, who can do more than ignite feverish adulation in adolescent girls. Link, a teen superstar in the making, may not be much of an acting stretch, but Jonas had the discipline to stay in character while flaunting triple-threat talents that will undoubtedly have Broadway producers pounding at his door.

Of course, the vitality of this American fairy tale, in which the fat girl gets her prince while advancing the cause of social justice, owes the greatest debt to Fierstein’s timeless drag act and Winokur’s unforced ebullience. Fierstein’s voice might sound like a smashed kazoo these days, but his tremendous musicality and outsize grace carry a rectifying moral force. And Winokur hasn’t lost that gracious underdog appeal that keeps you rooting for irrepressible goodness to prevail.

The production, in short, lit up the summer night like a wayward moonbeam. Fittingly, the grand orchestra, conducted by musical director Lon Hoyt, sent us home humming the anthem “You Can’t Stop the Beat”—an undeniable fact for both the actors and the audience. For a weekend crammed with dire news, it was just the pick-me-up so many of us needed.

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Artists:
Jerry Mitchell, director/choreographer
Lon Hoyt, musical director

Cast to Include:
Harvey Fierstein (Edna Turnblad)
Marissa Jaret Winokur (Tracy Turnblad)

Susan Anton (Velma Von Tussle)
Corbin Bleu (Seaweed J. Stubbs)
Drew Carey (Wilbur Turnblad)
Diana DeGarmo (Penny Pingleton)
Mo Gaffney (Prudy Pingleton / Gym Teacher / Matron)
Nick Jonas (Link Larkin)
Darlene Love (Motormouth Maybelle)
Tara Macri (Amber Von Tussle)
Michael McDonald (Harriman F. Spritzer / Principal / Mr. Pinky / Guard)
John Stamos (Corny Collins)

View more GREAT videos of Nick under the cut!

Original ‘Hairspray’ stars, Marissa Jaret Winokur and Harvey Fierstein, have reunited to rehearse for a one-off concert version of the musical at the Hollywood Bowl. John Stamos and Nick Jonas also join the cast for the musical event. (Aug. 4) (The Associated Press)

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Britney Spears Nabs Joe Jonas For Femme Fatale Tour
Jonas Brother also tweets news that Fast Life delayed until October 11.
By Jocelyn Vena (@jocelyn1212)

There was a time when Joe Jonas was rumored to be an opener for Britney Spears on her Femme Fatale Tour. Well, it seems that rumor turned out to be true — for one date, at least. Jonas tweeted Friday (July 29) that he’s opening for Spears at her August 5 stop in New Jersey.

“This just in … I will be performing at the @BritneySpears concert in NJ on Aug 5,” the Jersey native wrote. Just last week, it was announced that DJ Pauly D will also appear on several dates of the tour, which also features Nicki Minaj, Nervo and Jessie and the Toy Boys.

Jonas also shared in the same tweet that the release date for his forthcoming debut album has been delayed. He added, “And get ready for #FastLife in stores Oct. 11.”

Fast Life was originally slated to hit stores September 6, but fans will have to wait an additional few weeks to hear what the middle Jonas Brother has up his sleeve on the long-simmering solo project.

Jonas was recently spotted in Paris shooting the music video for the album’s second single, “Just In Love With You.” He was seen getting cozy with a model at various locations in the City of Lights. The song is a follow-up to his single “See No More,” written by Chris Brown.

While fans might have to wait a little longer to hear what Jonas has been working so hard on, he has made it clear that this album is all about them. “I was really excited,” he told MTV News about hearing fans’ comments about his first solo song. “I love the world we live in where you can know what people are thinking right away.”

Are you eagerly awaiting Fast Life? Tell us in the comments below!

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We are pleased to announce two new dates have been added to Nick’s South American schedule: September 29 at the Jockey Club in Asuncion, Paraguay, and October 2 at Orfeo Superdomo in Cordoba, Argentina! Your Team Jonas ticket pre-sales begin Friday, July 29 @ 10am local times.

Members, simply login to TeamJonas.com and click to the TOUR page where you will find the fan club pre-sale codes and ticketing links. If you are not yet a member, click here and learn more about Team Jonas.

Please read the following information for important details on each pre-sale.

SEPT. 29 • JOCKEY CLUB • ASUNCION, PARAGUAY
After you enter the Team Jonas password on the ticketing site, the page will display your pre-sale options:
1) BY TELEPHONE (available until 6pm PYT on July 29). Please note, phone purchases include an additional service fee.
2) AT RETAIL SALES POINTS (available until 9pm PYT on July 29).
Fans who live outside of Paraguay may purchase tickets by phone. RED UTS will reserve your tickets on the system for a 24/48hr period until your wire payment is received.

OCT. 2 • ORFEO SUPERDOMO • CORDOBA, ARGENTINA
Please follow these instructions to purchase tickets:
1) You must register for an account on the Orfeo Superdomo site. If you already have an account, simply login.
2) Once you are registered and logged in, enter the Team Jonas password to purchase your tickets.
3) The Team Jonas pre-sale ends at 10pm ART on July 29.

Tickets go on sale to the general public on Saturday, July 30 @ 10:00am local times.

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report.

More than one hundred teenage musicians recently attended a summer camp in Los Angeles to learn about the music business. Some of the advice they received came from the youngest member of the Jonas Brothers, eighteen-year-old Nick.

NICK JONAS: “Social media was incredibly important for my brothers and I at the beginning of our career and still is today. With Twitter and YouTube and Facebook, there are so many instant ways to connect with your fans.”

Nick Jonas appeared in Broadway musicals before he became a pop star with his brothers.
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Joe Jonas pops out of a Volvo as he continues to film his new music video for “Just in Love” in Paris on Wednesday (July 27).

The 21-year-old musician and his love interest strolled along the River Seine for new scenes today, going in and under bridges before ending up at the docks. Yesterday, the twosome were spotted at the train station.

Joe recently told MTV, “It was scary in the beginning just because I knew this is my one opportunity to show people my journal: the good and bad of every relationship I’ve been in, you know, [and] what I look for [in relationships].”

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EDIT: We now have added photos of Joe Jonas filming on July 27th.

2011 – Out in Paris Shooting A Video For “Just In Love With You” (Joe) – 7/26

2011 – Out in Paris Shooting A Video For “Just In Love With You” (Joe) – 7/27

Some 21-year-old pop stars, adulated by millions since their mid-teens, cocooned by entourages whenever they leave a hotel room, and protected by publicists at every enquiry, do not make the most scintillating company. Many go off the rails, others can barely utter a sentence (they have someone else to do it for them), and few grow into affable young men with admirable manners and a good line in conversation.

Somehow Mr Jonas has broken the mould. After huge success as a member of the Grammy-nominated, purity-ring wearing Jonas Brothers (the third album with his two siblings topped the Billboard chart in 2008), a successful Disney Channel movie or two, a reality TV series, more than 2,250,000 Twitter followers and 942,936 Facebook fans and counting, this American singer seems very grounded indeed. And we should know: in the past three months MR PORTER has had the pleasure of Mr Jonas’ company three times in three different cities.

We first made his acquaintance at our dinner held at the Chateau Marmont in LA in honour of the designer Mr Simon Spurr. Mr Jonas is a big fan of fashion (more of which later) and turned out to be delightful company: one of those rare beasts who, despite being in the spotlight and the subject of a thousand press junket questions, manages to engage his dinner companions by asking, as well as answering, questions – a rare attribute in certain demographics today.

A few weeks later, the MR PORTER team drew up outside the Principe hotel in Milan where we were staying for the biannual menswear shows to find the entrance surrounded by gaggles of teenage girls peering eagerly into the tinted windows of each car that pulled up. They appeared very disappointed when they saw it was only us; we were equally disappointed to discover that we were not the reason they’d been camping outside on the pavement for the previous two days.

Away from the mayhem, tucked inside the hotel’s resplendent lobby, Mr Jonas was taking tea with his team; he chatted happily to well-wishers who stopped by to say hello; and later that evening was equally comfortable enjoying the hotel’s lively bar scene. The only clue there was a pop star in the house was the sizeable bouncers and the fact that one of the hotel’s lifts had been cordoned off for sole use by the Jonas entourage.

The singer was in Milan to attend the Calvin Klein fashion show while on a promotional tour of Europe prior to releasing his first solo album. Leaving the comfort and adulation teen band membership must give you, and launching yourself as a “grown-up” artist, must be a daunting task. You just know you’re going to be judged: judged by the teen fans who never want you to stop being a prepubescent Jonas brother; judged by the big boy pop world who’ll be very suspicious that you’ve decided to try to join their club; and judged by your peers who’ve tried and failed to successfully make the transition from cute to cool.

“It’s bizarre to think it’s all on me this time,” he says, when we meet again in a photographic studio in north London for this shoot. “But the feedback from fans so far has been great. But it also helps that I have my brothers’ support. They understood that I wanted to do something on my own, and told me to take my time.” Have they heard his album yet? “Yes, I got a lift in my brother’s car and he had it playing. I didn’t even know he had a copy – he must have got it from the record company. Luckily, they really like it.”

Mr Jonas says his solo debut, due out in September, is an upbeat album with a dance/electro sound. “It’s fun; something you’d listen to when hanging out with your friends,” he says. The lyrics, however, are very honest and raw. The first single, ‘See No More’, which he co-wrote with Mr Chris Brown, is a mid-tempo ballad about the breakdown of a relationship (he split up with the Twilight actress, Ms Ashley Greene, earlier this year). “It was an emotional, upsetting song to write, but I truly find music the easiest way through which to express my feelings. Releasing a song is a bit like handing your journal over for people to read.”

For the moment, his legions of female fans will be delighted to hear he says he’s enjoying being single, although there are rumours he’s dating the Marc Jacobs model Ms Karlie Kloss. “It’s nice to focus on one thing sometimes, and for now that’s my music. It’s tough when you’re far away from someone for long periods of time and so when you’re single you don’t need to feel bad about that. “But,” he adds, “you’re always looking for the right person.” And who would that perfect person be? “Hmm, that’s hard to say. I change my mind all the time; and if you do name someone it’s then awkward when you bump into them.” When asked to name who he thinks is, or was, the most beautiful woman in the world, he finds it easier. “Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing,” he smiles.

Now that the awkward questions are over, he gets ready to model for the fashion pictures above, something he clearly enjoys. “I love fashion,” he explains. “Over the past year I’ve got heavily into it. Whether I’m going out for the night, or during the day, I love putting on something that pops and makes you feel comfortable.” Brands he favours include Simon Spurr, Gucci, Alexander McQueen, Burberry and Calvin Klein. “I’m a big shoe guy, too. I have far too many pairs. Whenever there’s a new style out, I’ll text my stylist: ‘Can we get a pair of those?’”

For all the plush hotel suites, limos, assistants and fashion front rows these young prodigies have access to, it’s a strange life they lead. Although Mr Jonas gets to travel the world in style, he’s been on the road for months with only two days off at home in LA, has a diary that’s fully booked with commitments until next spring, and has fans and record company executives closely watching his every move – eager to see if he can do a Timberlake and hop over the Disney fence to mainstream credibility. But, happily, he seems to enjoy the pressure. And if he does find it stressful, he has the good grace to hide it well. Mind you, I suppose there aren’t many jobs where you leave work with a new Givenchy jacket and a pair of Margiela trainers. Mr Jonas liked them so much, and asked so politely, we couldn’t say no. After all, most pop stars would have just nicked them and not said a word.

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