Joe Jonas is Selling How to Succeed Tickets and Shedding The Family Friendly Image
The newest generation of Disney stars has a new role model and that role model is Daniel Radcliffe. First he makes enough money to retire by the time he is 16 by starring in the Harry Potter franchise. Next he showed his junk in Equus to bust that squeaky clean image. Then he finished it all off with a move toward legitimacy by starring in the big Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
The latest family-friendly star to try and add the adjective “former” to the list is Joe Jonas. Jonas may be doing nothing more than teasing the press, but he told the Advocate he might be up for doing a nude scene on the live stage as Radcliffe did because he understands the difference between acting and real life. Did he say he would do a nude scene? No, but he did not count it out and that may just be the best way to establish oneself as an adult in the celebrity world without going full frontal.
Besides, though How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying tickets are still selling quite well after the cast replacements (a fact that should not go without recognition). According to Playbill’s box office report, How to Succeed has found that filling the Hirschfeld at 97.5 percent capacity is a pretty solid path to prosperity.
If Jonas follows this return to Broadway with a nude scene he is just going to invite criticism for following Harry Potter’s exact path, albeit a little out of order. Instead, he should keep flaunting his hot Australian singer girlfriend and people will quickly get the point.
Meanwhile, the Advocate article spends a good amount of time dancing around the issue of the Jonas Brothers’ conservative image and Joe’s exposure to the gay community after entering the ranks of a Broadway performer at the age of 8. It is in this long series of questions where Joe Jonas truly establishes himself as an adult. His answers read sincerely with being supportive of the LGBT community while maintaining his faith, making the distinction between an individual believer, the generalized opinion of those high-profile leaders within the church, and everyone’s right to their own belief.




