The last 5 years

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The last five years (engl. Original title The Last Five Years ) is a chamber musical with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown . It premiered in Chicago in 2001 and was produced in March 2002 at the Minetta Lane Theater on New York's Off-Broadway .
The German version is by Wolfgang Adenberg and premiered on June 18, 2005 in the Rex Theater in Wuppertal. Patrick Stanke and Charlotte Heinke played the main roles . Directed by Daniel Witzke and Christoph Drewitz .
The London premiere took place on July 18, 2006 at the Menier Chocolate Factory.

The musical was filmed with Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick in the leading roles. The film was first shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014 .

The musical tells of the relationship between a couple, Jamie and Cathy, who get to know each other, get married and split up after five years. Brown chooses an unusual narrative style: the plot is transported exclusively through fourteen songs, with hardly any spoken dialogues. Jamie and Cathy take turns in their songs. While Jamie tells the story of their relationship from the start, Cathy looks back, from their breakup to their first rendezvous. Only once, at the wedding, do the two narrative strands meet.

The songs

  • I stand there crying (Still hurting) (Cathy)
  • My Goddess (Shiksa Goddess) (Jamie)
  • See I'm smiling ( Cathy)
  • Moving Too Fast (Jamie)
  • I'm part of it (Part of That) (Cathy)
  • The Shmuel Song (Jamie)
  • A summer in Ohio (Cathy)
  • The Next Ten Minutes (Jamie & Cathy)
  • If the world were perfect (A Miracle Would Happen) (Jamie / Cathy)
  • I'm getting on (Climbing Uphill) (Cathy)
  • If I Didn't Believe in You (Jamie)
  • I'll be better (I Can Do Better Than That) (Cathy)
  • Nobody Needs to Know (Jamie)
  • Take care until tomorrow / I could never be your savior (Goodbye Until Tomorrow / I Could Never Rescue You) (Cathy / Jamie)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Last Five Years review - pitch-perfect Anna Kendrick performance. The Guardian, April 16, 2015, accessed October 15, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Toronto Film Festival Lineup Includes Denzel Washington's 'Equalizer,' Kate Winslet's 'A Little Chaos'. Variety, July 22, 2014, accessed October 15, 2018 .