JORDIN SPARKS BACK ON STAGE THIS WEEK AFTER INJURING HER HIP

Friday, September 03 2010 05:13

Jordin Sparks returns to the Broadway stage this week after missing a batch of In The Heights performances due to an injured hip. According to Playbill.com, she was under doctor's orders to rest. Sparks' understudy had to fill in, and as the American Idol alum tweeted earlier this week, "At the Dr 4 ths dang hip! Hopefully I'll be back asap! I miss the cast & the stage! I went crazy ystrday having 2 stay off of it!"

We caught up with Sparks while on tour this summer -- prior to her debut on Broadway last month. At the time she told us that she was worried about the rigors of performing: "Being on this tour is definitely helping me with the stanima part because being on Broadway is going to be totally different. I mean it's going to be a two-hour show every night for eight times a week. Ah. Which is going to be super insane. It's not like my regular tour where do my show, sing an hour and then I have a day off. It's every single night we're going to be having a show, and it's going to be pretty intense."

In The Heights follows three days in the Washington Heights area of New York City.

Sparks portrays Nina Rosario, the daughter of Kevin and Camila. She is the first to go to college -- Stanford University -- and nearly everyone in the neighborhood admires her. But she hits some trouble along the way.

Sparks' stint is expected to end on November 14th.