Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years makes its long-awaited Broadway premiere at the Hudson Theatre March 18, and a new music video is giving us a first listen to stars Adrienne Warren and Nick Jonas singing the show's finale, "Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You." Watch above!
Also new to our ears in this video is Brown's new and expanded orchestration for the 2002 musical, featuring nine musicians instead of the musical's usual six. The music team includes conductor Paul Mutzabaugh on the piano-keyboard, concertmaster Fung Chern Hwei on violin, Maria Im on violin, Adda Kridler on violin and viola, Ken James Kubota on cello, Zachary Brown on cello, Hidayat Honari on guitar, Julia Adamy on bass, and Jamie Eblen on drums, percussion, and celeste, with music direction by Tom Murray and music contracting by Tomoko Akaboshi.
Director Whitney White is leading the creative team, which also includes choreographers Jeff Kuperman and Rick Kuperman (The Outsiders), scenic designer David Zinn (Stereophonic), costume designer Dede Ayite (Jaja鈥檚 African Hair Braiding), lighting designer Stacey Derosier (The Counter), sound designer Cody Spencer (The Outsiders), wig and hair designer Mia Neal (Ma Rainey鈥檚 Black Bottom). Cody Renard Richard will serve as production stage manager, and Baseline Theatrical鈥檚 Andy Jones and James Hickey will handle general management.
The Last Five Years tracks a five-year relationship between Cathy and Jamie from beginning to end via intertwining solo songs, with Jamie's story unfolding chronologically and Cathy's reverse chronologically.
The musical, which premiered at Skokie, Illinoise's Northlight Theatre before a 2002 Off-Broadway run at Minetta Lane Theatre starring Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott, has become a particular favorite among theatre fans. The upcoming Main Stem run will be the work's first, following an Off-Broadway revival in 2013 and a film adaptation in 2014.
Seaview, ATG Productions, and The Season are producing.
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