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The Last Five Years

The Last Five Years

Shows · The Last Five Years

Jamie, an ambitious young novelist, and Cathy, a struggling actress, tell the story of their five-year relationship from opposite ends. Jamie narrates from their first date to their divorce moving forward in time, while Cathy begins with the divorce and moves backward to the moment they fell in love, with their timelines meeting only once — at their wedding.

Opened
2002
Performances
177
Type
Musical
Era
Modern
Music: Jason Robert BrownLyrics: Jason Robert BrownBook: Jason Robert Brown

Productions5 on Broadway

2002 Original Theatre not recorded. · Daisy Prince 177 performances
2007 Apollo Theatre Transfer.
2017 Transfer Theatre not recorded.
2025 Hudson Theatre Revival. April 6, 2025 90 performances
2025 Transfer Theatre not recorded.

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International The Last Five Years matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

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In the literature9 passages

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. book:dominic-mchugh-the-oxford-handbook-of-musical-theatre-screen-adaptations-2019-ox#p41

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. book:broadway-yearbook-2001-2002-a-relevant-and-irreverent-steven-suskin-kindle-2003-#p95

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. book:ever-after-the-last-years-of-musical-theater-and-beyond-barry-singer#p207

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. book:ever-after-the-last-years-of-musical-theater-and-beyond-barry-singer#p208

Last Five Years, The, 243-44, 247, 248, 293n—-94n book:ever-after-the-last-years-of-musical-theater-and-beyond-singer-barry-1957-new-yo#p349

Think of Cathy in The Last Five Years, Christine in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and most especially, the character of Sherie Rene Scott in Everyday Rapture, the “fictionalized autobiography” Scott penned with Dick Scanlan and for which they were both nominated for Tony Awards. book:here-s-to-the-ladies-conversations-with-more-of-the-great-eddie-shapiro-oxford-u#p230

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