The Last Five Years

THE LAST FIVE YEARS
Written and Composed by JASON ROBERT BROWN

The Last 5 Years is a unique, synergetic project which
combines the efforts of two National Cappies Award winning Fairfax County Theatre Arts programs. Students and teaching artists from Rambunctious Theatre Company and Beyond the Page Theatre Company of West Potomac High School are working in conjunction to produce the show as a fundraiser. Both schools were selected to perform at the American High School Theatre Festival in connection with the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August of 2017. The money raised from this production will help to defray the cost for students traveling from both schools to Scotland.

Warning: This musical contains strong language - For mature audiences only

LOVE WON AND LOST:

Relationships are never easy, especially when it feels like both partners’ lives are going in different directions. In his musical The Last Five Years, composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown takes a close-up look at two people fighting to stay together, even as demands of balancing their careers and life as a couple push them apart. The story follows twenty-somethings Jamie and Catherine through the various stages of falling in (and out) of love: from the infatuation of a first date, to moving in together and getting married, to eventual heartbreak. This may sound like a familiar tale, and for anyone who’s plunged head over heels into a new courtship or tasted the bitterness of a breakup, it is- poignantly so. In The Last Five Years, Brown depicts the relatable twists and turns of a constantly evolving relationship with wry humor, soulful intensity, and beautiful music.
It’s rare for any two people in a failing romance to see eye-to-eye on what went wrong between them; both have their own version of events, and it’s not always clear who (if anyone) was in the right. The Last Five Years captures this ambiguity perfectly through its unique structure. In a series of emotionally intimate songs, we move alongside Jamie and Catherine through the course of their five-year involvement, entering into each of their perspectives at opposite points in their love story.

CATHY...........................................Madyson Hanton (Robinson 2016)
JAMIE.............................................David Jarzen (West Potomac 2016)
STAGE MANAGER.........................Madeline Marshall (West Potomac 2013)
CREATIVE TEAM............................Megan Thrift, Dan Deiter, Philip Lee Clark
MUSICAL DIRECTOR/PIANO........Cathy Manley
CELLO............................................Aron Rider
PERCUSSION.................................Philip Drembus (West Potomac 2016)
STAGE CREW/DRESSERS.............Quinn Moore (Robinson 2018)
STAGE CREW/DRESSERS.............Tony Lemus (West Potomac 2018)

WHERE:
West Potomac High School
Kogelman Theatre
6500 Quander Road
Alexandria, VA 22307

WHEN:
July 14th - 7:00pm
July 15th - 7:00pm
July 16th - 2:00pm & 7:00pm
July 21st - 7:00pm
July 22nd - 7:00pm
July 23rd - 2:00pm & 7:00pm

Visit us at westpotomactheatre.org or robinsondrama.org for tickets and complete details about THE LAST FIVE YEARS and for more information about upcoming shows.