THE LEGACY THEATRE 2 21 SEASON MAINSTAGE: September 1-26 The Last 5 Years Written & Composed by JASON ROBERT BROWN 1 130 Shore Dr. Branford, CT 06405 (203) 315-0005 rossovino.net A Proud Supporter of Legacy Theatre Broadway bEATS 2 THE LEGACY THEATRE Stony Creek, CT presents The Last 5 Years Written & Composed by JASON ROBERT BROWN with TESS ADAMS* EMMETT CASSIDY Lighting & Set Designer JAMIE BURNETT Costume Designer ELIZABETH BOLSTER Prop Designer CALLIE LIBERATORE Sound Engineer JASON GERMAINE Technical Director RICH BURKAM Assistant Stage Manager KIERSTEN BJORK Production Stage Manager SARAH PERO Musical Direction MATTHEW HARRISON Directed by KEELY BAISDEN KNUDSEN Originally Produced for the New York stage by Arielle Tepper & Marty Bell Originally Produced by Northlight Theatre, Chicago, IL THE LAST FIVE YEARS is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com *Actors appear through the courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings of this production and distributing recordings or streams in any medium, including the internet, is strictly prohibited, a violation of the author(s)’s rights and actionable under United States copyright law. 3 The Company TESS ADAMS EMMETT CASSIDY Cast (in alphabetical order) Cathy ...................................TESS ADAMS Jamie .............................EMMETT CASSIDY The Last Five Years is a musical about the same love story told from Jamie’s point of view forward in time five years, and from Cathy’s point of view backwards in time five years, meeting in time only once, halfway through the musical. It is ultimately a celebration of love, in all its stages - when it is lost and when it is found. 4 Musical Numbers ”Still Hurting” ................................... Cathy “Shiksa Goddess” ................................. Jamie “See I’m Smiling” ................................. Cathy “Moving Too Fast” ................................ Jamie “I’m A Part of That” ............................... Cathy “The Schmuel Song” ............................... Jamie “A Summer in Ohio” ............................... Cathy “The Next Ten Minutes” ..................... Jamie & Cathy “A Miracle Would Happen / When You Come Home to Me” ................ Jamie / Cathy “Climbing Uphill / Audition Sequence” ................ Cathy “If I Didn’t Believe in You” .......................... Jamie “I Can Do Better Than That” ........................ Cathy “Nobody Needs to Know” .......................... Jamie “Goodbye Until Tomorrow / I Could Never Rescue You” .................. Jamie & Cathy THE LAST 5 YEARS WILL BE PERFORMED WITHOUT AN INTERMISSION Follow Legacy on social media for behind-the-scenes photos, interviews, exclusive offers and more! facebook.com/LegacyTheatreCT @legacytheatrect @legacytheatrect 5 Who’s Who TESS ADAMS (Cathy) is thrilled Pirates of Penzance (Frederick). A to return to Legacy Theatre where graduate of The American University she recently performed with her of Rome, Emmett’s other passions mother, Anne Runolfsson, as a part offstage include music, reading, writing, of the Broadway Concert Series, and carpentry, and playing Dungeons & in A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Dragons with his friends. the Branford Green. Tess made her Broadway debut at the age of seven in JASON ROBERT BROWN the 2006 revival of Les Misérables and (Writer & Composer) is the ultimate worked actively as a child performer, multi-hyphenate - an equally skilled singing as a principal soloist for The composer, lyricist, conductor, arranger, Boston Pops, National, San Diego, orchestrator, director and performer - Seattle, and Utah symphonies, often best known for his dazzling scores to under the baton of the late great several of the most renowned musicals Marvin Hamlisch. She has spent her of our time, including the generation- life traveling & performing all over the definingThe Last Five Years, his debut world––from famed New York venues song cycle Songs for a New World, and such as Birdland Jazz Club and 54 Below the seminal Parade, for which he won to wonderfully adventurous places such the 1999 Tony Award for Best Score. as Estonia, Russia, Finland, Hawaii, Jason Robert Brown has been hailed as the middle of the Baltic Sea, and more. “one of Broadway’s smartest and most She is an alumna of the BADA classical sophisticated songwriters since Stephen acting training program in London Sondheim” (Philadelphia Inquirer), and a recent graduate of Quinnipiac and his “extraordinary, jubilant theater University where she earned BAs in music” (Chicago Tribune) has been Theater and English, graduating Magna heard all over the world, whether in Cum Laude. one of the hundreds of productions of his musicals every year or in his EMMETT CASSIDY ( Jamie) is a own incendiary live performances. The Branford native, with a true passion for New York Times refers to Jason as “a acting, traveling, and storytelling. He leading member of a new generation has performed in several productions of composers who embody high hopes with Legacy, such as Hamlet (Laertes), for the American musical.” Jason’s score Private Lives (Elliot), Joan Joyce (Mr. for The Bridges of Madison County, a Marinara, Joe Joyce Sr., Jr., Reporter), musical adapted with Marsha Norman Jamal (Connor), Oedipus Rex (Chorus from the bestselling novel, received Leader / Shepherd). Other productions two Tony Awards (for Best Score and include Hairspray (Link Larkin) and Orchestrations). Honeymoon In Vegas, 6 Who’s Who based on Andrew Bergman’s film, orchestral adaptation of E.B. White’s opened on Broadway in 2015 following novel The Trumpet of the Swan with a triumphant production at Paper Mill the National Symphony Orchestra, Playhouse. A film version of his epochal and recorded the score for PS Classics. Off-Broadway musical The Last Five Future projects include a new chamber Years was released in 2015, starring musical created with Daisy Prince and Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan Jonathan Marc Sherman calledThe and directed by Richard LaGravenese. Connector; an adaptation of Lilian Lee’s His major musicals as composer and Farewell My Concubine, created with lyricist include: 13, written with Robert Kenneth Lin and Moisés Kaufman; Horn and Dan Elish, which opened on and a collaboration with Billy Crystal, Broadway in 2008 and was subsequently Amanda Green, Lowell Ganz and directed by the composer for its West Babaloo Mandel on a musical of Mr. End premiere in 2012; The Last Five Saturday Night. Jason is the winner of Years, which was cited as one of Time the 2018 Louis Auchincloss Prize, the Magazine’s 10 Best of 2001 and won 2002 Kleban Award for Outstanding Drama Desk Awards for Best Music Lyrics and the 1996 Gilman & and Best Lyrics (and was later directed Gonzalez-Falla Foundation Award by the composer in its record-breaking for Musical Theatre. Jason’s songs, Off-Broadway run at Second Stage including the cabaret standard “Stars Theatre in 2013);Parade , written with and the Moon,” have been performed Alfred Uhry and directed by Harold and recorded by Ariana Grande, Audra Prince, which won both the Drama McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Billy Desk and New York Drama Critics’ Porter, Betty Buckley, Renée Fleming, Circle Awards for Best New Musical, as Jon Hendricks and many others, and well as garnering Jason the Tony Award his song “Someone To Fall Back On” for Original Score; and Songs for a New was featured in the Walden Media film, World, a theatrical song cycle directed Bandslam. As a soloist or with his band by Daisy Prince, which has since been The Caucasian Rhythm Kings, Jason has seen in hundreds of productions around performed concerts around the world. the world since its 1995 Off-Broadway For the past four years (and ongoing), debut, including a celebrated revival at his monthly sold-out performances at New York’s City Center in the summer New York’s SubCulture have featured of 2018. Parade was also the subject of a many of the music and theater world’s major revival directed by Rob Ashford, most extraordinary performers. His first at London’s Donmar Warehouse newest collection, “How We React and then at the Mark Taper Forum and How We Recover”, was released in Los Angeles. Jason conducted his in June 2018 on Ghostlight Records. 7 Who’s Who His previous solo album, “Wearing Theater; the 1992 tribute to Stephen Someone Else’s Clothes”, was named Sondheim at Carnegie Hall (recorded one of Amazon.com’s best of 2005, and by RCA Victor); Yoko Ono’s New is available from Sh-K-Boom Records. York Rock, at the WPA Theatre; and Jason’s 2012 concert with Anika Noni Michael John LaChiusa’s The Petrified Rose was broadcast on PBS, and he was Princ at the Public Theatre. Jason the featured soloist for a live episode of orchestrated Andrew Lippa’s john and Friday Night Is Music Night, broadcast jen, Off-Broadway at Lamb’s Theatre. live from the London Palladium and Additionally, Jason served as the featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra. orchestrator and arranger of Charles His collaboration with singer Lauren Strouse and Lee Adams’s score for a Kennedy, “Songs of Jason Robert proposed musical of Star Wars. Jason has Brown”, is available on PS Classics. Jason conducted and created arrangements is also the composer of the incidental and orchestrations for Liza Minnelli, music for the Broadway revival of You John Pizzarelli, and Michael Feinstein, Can’t Take It With You, David Lindsay- among many others. Jason studied Abaire’s Kimberly Akimbo and Fuddy composition at the Eastman School Meers, and Kenneth Lonergan’s The of Music in Rochester, N.Y., with Waverly Gallery, and he was a Tony Samuel Adler, Christopher Rouse, and Award nominee for his contributions to Joseph Schwantner. He lives with his the score of Urban Cowboy the Musical. wife, composer Georgia Stitt, and their He has also contributed music to the daughters in New York City. Jason is hit Nickelodeon television series, The a proud member of the Dramatists Wonder Pets as well as Sesame Street.