The run closed June 22, 2025
- Opened
- 2002
- Closed
- June 22, 2025
- Performances
- 177
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- —
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 100th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Last Five Years 4 more that season
| 2007 | Apollo Theatre Transfer | |
| 2017 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2025 | Hudson Theatre Revival | 90 perf. |
| 2025 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it4 named
4 of these 4 names have a person record behind them and link to one. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters2 roles recorded
Joshua Henry Jamie Wellerstein
Betsy Wolfe Cathy Hiatt
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Daisy Prince
- Choreographer
- Jeff Kuperman, Rick Kuperman
- Orchestrations
- Jason Robert Brown
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
The Last Five Years is a musical written by Jason Robert Brown. It premiered at Chicago's Northlight Theatre in 2001 and was then produced Off-Broadway in March 2002. Since then it has had numerous productions, both in the United States and internationally, and a Broadway production in 2025. The story explores a five-year relationship between Jamie Wellerstein, a rising novelist, and Cathy Hiatt, a struggling actress. The show uses a form of storytelling in which Jamie's story is told in chronological order (starting just after the couple have first met) and Cathy's story is told in reverse chronological order (beginning the show at the end of the marriage). The characters do not directly in…
The Last Five Years (Jason Robert Brown) Northlight Theatre, Skokie, Illinois, May 23 The Musical A Concise History Second Edition Ga Nzl Kurt Findlay Jamie 2 2022010, p. 488
- Much more conventional is the film version of The Last Five Years, which even has a Broadway performer (Jeremy Jordan) rather than a Hollywood name in one of the only two roles. Dominic Mchugh the Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations 2019 Ox, p. 41
- Just prior to Thou Shalt Not, he attracted acclaim in the Chicago premiere of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years— which he repeated off-Broadway after Thou Shalt Not closed. Broadway Yearbook 2001 2002 A Relevant and Irreverent Steven Suskin Kindle 2003 , p. 95
- Rather than let The Last Five Years disappear unrecorded, Rosenfield opted to share the show with a three-year-old independent label founded by a 35-year-old actor named Kurt Deutsch, whose wife, Sherie Rene Scott, was one of the musical's stars. Ever After the Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond Barry Singer, p. 207
- Over the course of 2001-2002, actor Norbert Leo Butz had delivered a breakout, Tony Award-nominated performance in Thou Shalt Not before starring with Sherie Rene Scott in The Last Five Years. Ever After the Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond Barry Singer, p. 208
- Last Five Years, The, 243-44, 247, 248, 293n—-94n Ever After the Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond Singer Barry 1957 New Yo, p. 349
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for The Last Five Years at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.