Introducing: Broadway smash...

San Diego we all did hip hop. It wasn’t ever a thing that we thought that we could do on Broadway. So to be a part of & Juliet is kind of a full circle for me - to grow up doing hip hop in southeast San Diego and then now doing it on Broadway is kind of crazy to me,” de Jesus told us in our interview. “I’m excited that there are three other Filipinos that are here with me amongst many other different types of Asians that are in the show as well.”

De Jesus made his Broadway debut in 2018 as part of “Pretty Woman: The Musical” at the Nederlander Theatre, eventually becoming one of the show’s dance captains. He also played Romeo on Newsies and was a part of In The Heights led by Vanessa Hudgens.

As dance captain, de Jesus says he “assists the dance guys in any way to make sure that the show choreographic-wise remains at the level of when the show opened” and that if new people are coming into the show, they’re also in charge of helping get them into the show seamlessly.

To keep fit, de Jesus follows a strict diet and regimen to be able to perform consistently at a high level.

“My thing is [that] I take care of myself and I treat myself like an athlete,” he shared. “I take it to the extreme - I’m vegan and I do intermittent fasting. I go to the gym every day and it’s all just to maintain, to make sure that my body can do what it needs to do.” n