"The Boiler Room Theatre has an interesting, witty, beautifully produced, well performed piece of theatre on its hands... soulful, soaring music... accompanied by one of the finest ensemble orchestras I've had the pleasure to hear..."

--Leo Sochocki, The City Paper

The Last Five Years
Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown

March 19 - April 17, 2004

We are pleased to present the Middle Tennessee Premiere of the 2002 off-Broadway musical that ingeniously chronicles the five-year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up --or from break-up to meeting --depending on how you look at it. Written by Jason Robert Brown (Parade, Songs For A New World), The Last Five Years is an intensely personal look at the relationship between a writer and an actress told from both points of view. The show is presented in "forward time" as we follow the story of their relationship from Jamie's perspective, as Cathy relates the story in "reverse" -- starting with their breakup and moving backwards in time until their first meeting at the end of the show. With beautiful music and alternately humorous and heartfelt lyrics, it is only in the middle of the show that Jamie and Cathy come together as Jamie proposes and the two are wed. Musicals about relationships are nothing new, but The Last Five Years manages to reinvent the familiar formula and offers up one of the brightest, freshest scores of the new century. Rated PG-13 for adult language.