- Oh!
This is fascinating.
Hey, I'm Nick Jonas, I'm about to be unboxed.
(intense music)
Today we're unboxing.
But this is a different kind of unboxing,
we're going through memories today.
Memories throughout my life and career,
of now 18 years of doing this.
Good thing I got my manicure done today,
take a look at this beauty shot of these hands.
Right?
'Cause you're gonna get some good closeups of these boxes.
First one here...
Oh, oh.
Must've called my mom for some of this stuff, this is rich.
This is the playbill to the first Broadway show I did
with Frank Langella, of A Christmas Carol.
Let's see, I think we got the tickets here, beautiful.
And then this was my pass.
I wore this with pride.
And then this in my favorite ornament.
I used to get an ornament from every show that I would do,
and this is the ghost of Christmas past,
I believe, or future.
I'm not sure, he's one of the ghosts.
So one of my most formative memories from this show,
I played Scrooge at eight,
which is a real character in the show.
But I was the understudy for Tiny Tim.
Patrick Stogner's the kid in this photo
doing the peace sign, he was Tiny Tim.
He got sick, my parents got a call
that he had laryngitis and had to miss four shows.
So without any rehearsal I had to go on and play Tiny Tim.
And when the big set piece turned around
I was supposed to sing my opening line, I went blank.
And I looked at the conductor, who was this frightening man,
ready for me to sing, and it was just silent.
(cricket chirps)
Silence on the Broadway stage
is just about the worst thing in the world.
And after the show, I expected him to come up to me
and tell me that I had failed.
Instead he came up and said,
"This happens, it's live theater,
"you'll do better next time."
Which became an important thing for me to hear,
'cause later on in my life and career
I'd had many moments where I'd messed up.
But it was back to this moment, that shaped who I became.
(pop music)
Hm, let me see.
It's not a dog or cat, so obviously it's a...
Oh, very nice.
This is the first song I wrote and recorded,
and that was released, Joy To The World, A Christmas Prayer.
♪ Joy to the world ♪
Are these the real lyrics and chart?
This is fascinating.
Yeah, there it is, right there.
Written by Kevin Jonas Sr. and Nick Jonas.
I was 10 when I wrote this song with my dad.
They did a CD every year for the Broadway community,
called Equity Fights AIDS,
and they would do a collection of Christmas songs.
But my dad and I asked if I could write a song,
and record it, for the compilation CD.
I think at first they were kinda like,
no that's a terrible idea.
And then we showed them the song and they loved it,
and they said, "Yeah we would love to have you record it."
So they put it on the compilation.
And then someone heard it from Sony Records.
Turns out he was the head of international for all of Sony.
So he had us come in, me and my dad,
and we met with David Massey.
Who would then go on to be the guy that signed me
as a solo artist at 11 years old.
And the first recording I did was this one.
And then it was released as a single.
You know, it actually did pretty well.
It charted, I know that much,
I don't know where, but it was there.
And we'd hear it on the radio, it was very exciting.
And we would package these CDs up ourselves,
and then we'd ship them out to people
who had ordered them online.
And that was the start to my recording career.
(pop music)
Alright, on to the next box.
I'm anxious to see what's in here.
Oh!
These young guys.
Wow.
And this of course is us on the TRL stage.
So we had this big break
to come and premiere our music video.
But it was actually a three part music video
that we did for our first single, called Mandy.
It was a trilogy basically.
I couldn't tell you now what they story was, I have no idea.
Rosy cheeks, that's one thing that stands out immediately.
And then of course this, this was a staple of my wardrobe.
Which you might think was, sort of like ironic,
like to just wear a big belt buckle
that says, praise the Lord.
But it wasn't ironic.
I was fully praising the Lord everywhere I went.
I'm gonna have to take this home with me, this is great.
(pop music)
Alright, on to the next one.
Oh, it's heavy.
What could possibly be inside?
Maybe it's some dumbbells,
maybe some other workout materials.
I don't think so.
It is...
An iPad, that's it.
Okay, let's see what's on the iPad.
I know what this is.
Let's watch.
("SOS" by Jonas Brothers)
Yep.
It's what I thought.
Here we go, the glass is about to break.
(glass shatters)
And, down he goes.
One more time.
Let's just watch that one more time.
Come on, uh oh.
One more time.
And...
Oh.
Little known fact, after this performance,
which we thought, was potentially the end of our career,
'cause Joe fell on stage at the AMAs,
our album sales went up, and up, and up, and up.
We got the sympathy vote, and it was great.
So we were all thanking Joe afterwards,
even though he was pretty sad about it.
And as we're walking off the stage,
he had blood on his knee, in this white suit,
Beyonce was there and she said "Great job."
So Beyonce watched Joe fall.
And in that moment, you know,
he wasn't really able to hear the compliment.
But I think it says something, every performer falls.
And maybe Beyonce knew
the sympathy vote would come in because of this.
So we should've planned more performances where we fell.
Album sales could've been even better.
And at the end of this performance,
the best part is this was planned, I'll show you.
We planned a fan running on stage.
Here it is, and Big Rob scoops her up.
Yeah, Johnny Wright was one of managers at the time,
and he said, "We should have some girls run on stage
"just to reinforce the craziness."
And I said, "I don't wanna hear about this.
"If this happens or not it's up to you guys."
And they came over and they sort of, just like, patted me.
They should've tackled us,
that would've been a better approach.
No one had to know.
Till now, basically I just outed our secret.
I'm Nick Jonas, and I just got unboxed.
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