Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren bring the beloved musical ‘The Last Five Years’ to Broadway for the first time.

NEW YORK (AP) — Nick Jonas was only 9 and portraying a teacup on Broadway when he first heard about a buzzy new musical playing way downtown.“All my adult castmates were talking about how great the show was and how amazing the music was,” Jonas recalls of his days in “Beauty and the Beast.” “I went to the record store with my dad and picked up a copy of the cast recording and really fell in love with it.”What he adored was “The Last Five Years,” a two-person stage show with a cult-like following that he is now leading onto a Broadway stage for the first time, capping a 24-year journey. It opens Sunday.“In a time where musicals are based off of movies, are based off records or coming from London, this is a great American piece by an American composer, writer, songwriter,” says its Tony-nominated director Whitney White. “This is kind of one of our great American masterpieces.