The Last Five Years

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The Last Five Years is a contemporary two-person musical by Jason Robert Brown that chronicles a couple’s five-year relationship through intersecting, reverse-chronological and forward-chronological narratives.

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instanceOf musical
stage work
awarded Drama Desk Award
surface form: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music
bookWriter Jason Robert Brown
centralTheme romantic relationship over five years
characterOccupation Cathy Hiatt – struggling actress
Jamie Wellerstein – novelist
composer Jason Robert Brown
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Jason Robert Brown
filmAdaptationDirector Richard LaGravenese
filmAdaptationLeadActor Anna Kendrick
Jeremy Jordan
filmAdaptationReleaseYear 2014
firstProductionDate 2001
genre chamber musical
contemporary musical theatre
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language English
lyricist Jason Robert Brown
mainCharacter Cathy Hiatt
Jamie Wellerstein
narrativeDevice forward chronology for Jamie
reverse chronology for Cathy
numberOfActs 1
numberOfCharacters 2
offBroadwayOpeningDate 2002
offBroadwayTheatre Minetta Lane Theatre
premiereCity Skokie, Illinois
premiereLocation Northlight Theatre
settingPeriod late 20th century
song A Miracle Would Happen
A Part of That
A Summer in Ohio
Goodbye Until Tomorrow
I Can Do Better Than That
I Could Never Rescue You
If I Didn’t Believe in You
Moving Too Fast
Nobody Needs to Know
See I’m Smiling
Shiksa Goddess
Still Hurting
The Next Ten Minutes
The Schmuel Song
When You Come Home to Me
structure two intersecting timelines
subjectMatter artistic ambition
career vs. relationship conflict
marriage and divorce

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