Broadway baby gets TV show (about Broadway)

By Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY

Posted June 15, 2012

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ORG XMIT: 146116610 NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 12: Singer/actor Jeremy Jordan attends 2012 A Night Of Broadway Stars at Frederick P Rose Hall on June 12, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images) ORIG FILE ID: 146236210 (Credit: By Stephen Lovekin, Getty Images)

Rising Broadway star Jeremy Jordan just got a little busier. The actor, who earned a Tony nomination for his role in the Disney musical Newsies, is poised to join the cast of Smash, the NBC series about the making of a Broadway show.

Though casting has not been officially announced, various reports confirm that Jordan will join the show in its next (second) season, playing a talented, sexy young performer from Brooklyn with a few issues. (The term "self-destructive" has been used to describe the character.)

Jordan will apparently continue in Newsies, where he plays another working-class New Yawk kid, a newsboy who leads his colleagues on a strike. The actor lost the Tony for lead actor in a musical to Steve Kazee, of Once -- formerly the boyfriend of Smash star Megan Hilty.