#the last five years

[chungledown-bimothy]

norbert leo butz and jonathan bailey both have played fiyero and jamie wellerstein. the next logical step, then, is wondering about jeremy jordan. obviously he's not been in a production of wicked, but maybe there was something adjacent, maybe a cover in a cabaret show.

i got three words into searching "jeremy jordan dancing through life" and remembered exactly why we will never get jeremy doing fiyero

[trinitea-fics]

Nothing makes my brain go brrrrrrrr than a musical told non-linearly

Company? Merrily We Roll Along? Ghost Quartet? The Last Five Years?

BRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

[jay-birds-fly]

Oh wow, this character is really neat and can sing really well! I wonder who could possibly play them-

Huh? I don’t think I’ve ever seen him in anything-

[olympain]

JEREMY JORDAN AS ALL THE ROLES (ⅠⅠ - nostalgic favourites)

'Put a Little Love in Your Heart' from The Flash 'Let Me Make You Proud' from Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure 'The Schmuel Song' from The Last Five Years 'Opening Doors' from Merrily We Roll Along 'I Can't Let Go' from SMASH 'Cell Block Tango' from Chicago 'Big Cat' from A Killer Party 'Meant to be Yours' from Heathers 'The World Will Know' from Newsies

[graciehart]

GET TO KNOW ME  ✰ [2/10] Musicals ⤷ The Last 5 Years (2001)

"Maybe your heart's completely swayed but your head can't follow through."

[crystaltreebee]

If I had a nickel for every time Jeremy Jordan showed up in random media I’d have-

so many nickels. Someone needs to stop this man. Please.

[d-criss-news]

thelastfiveyears: Take us back to the red carpet. *Darren Edit

[teenytinysandwiches]

The Last Five Years (pt. 1)

[bootleglesbian]

available bootlegs

this is everything i currently have available (updated 06/18/24). if you have anything to trade i generally prefer that but i am open to gifting any of the titles that are not starred! as a rule, if no cast is listed or only some members are listed, that means that i do not know the cast but i am happy to send a screenshot if you would like (and if anyone is interested in helping me identify unknown casts or dates of any files, let me know!).

green = video, pink = audio, starred = trade or donations only

*Anastasia (Hartford Theatre pre-Broadway run - Christy Altomare, Derek Klena)

*Anastasia (Broadway - Christy Altomare, Derek Klena)

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Broadway, 06/24/18 - Melissa Benoist)

Beetlejuice (Broadway, 10/31/19 aka Halloween)

Book of Mormon (Broadway - Ben Platt)

Come From Away (Broadway - Jenn Collela)

Falsettos (Proshot)

Falsettos (Broadway - ORC, not proshot)

Falsettos (Tour - Max von Essen, Nick Adams, Eden Espinosa, Nick Blaemire, Audrey Cardwell, Bryonha Marie Parham)

*Falsettos (Tour - Max von Essen, Nicka Adams, Eden Espinosa, Nick Blaemire, Audrey Cardwell, Bryonha Marie Parham)

Freaky Friday (La Jolla)

*Ghost (Broadway - Caissie Levy)

Hamilton (Broadway - Lexi Lawson)

Hamilton (First National Tour - Michael Luwoye, Solea Pffeifer, Joshua Henry, Emmy Raver Lampman, Isaiah Johnson, Jordan Donica, Mathenee Treco, Ruben J. Carbajal, Amber Iman, Rory O'Malley)

*Hamilton (Chicago Act 1 only - Karen Olivo, Ariana Afsar, Samantha Marie Ware, Miguel Cervantes, Joshua Henry)

*Hamilton (Broadway - OBC, not proshot)

*The Last Five Years (Off-Broadway - Betsy Wolfe, Adam Kantor)

*Lempicka (Broadway, 03/38/24 - Eden Espinosa, Amber Iman, Andrew Samonsky, George Abud, Natalie Joy Johnson, Zoe Glick, Nathaniel Stampley, Beth Leavel)

*Mean Girls (Broadway, 02/22/20 - Renee Rapp, Erika Henningson, Barrett Wilbert Weed, Grey Henson, Kate Rockwell, Krystina Alabado, Kyle Selig)

*Mean Girls (National Tour)

*Mystery of Edwin Drood (Broadway - Stephanie J. Block, Betsy Wolfe, Jessie Mueller)

*The Prom (Alliance Theatre pre-Broadway - Caitlin Kinnunen, Anna Grace Barlow)

*She Loves Me (Broadway - ORC proshot)

Waitress (ART pre-Broadway run - Jessie Mueller, Jeanna de Waal, Keala Settle, Drew Gehling, Joe Tippett, Dakin Matthews, Christopher Fitzgerald, Eric Anderson)

*Waitress (Broadway - Jessie Mueller, Keala Settle, Molly Jobe, Drew Gehling)

*Waitress (Broadway - Sara Barielles, Chris Diamantopoulos, Charity Angel Dawson, Molly Jobe, Will Swenson, Christopher Fitzgerald)

*Waitress (Broadway, 06/19/17 - Betsy Wolfe, Drew Gehling)

Waitress (Broadway, 12/14/17 - Stephanie Torns, Jason Mraz)

Waitress (Broadway - Shoshana Bean, Jeremy Jordan)

*Waitress (Broadway - Shoshana Bean, Jeremy Jordan)

Waitress (Broadway, 02/03/19 - Sara Bareilles, Gavin Creel)

Waitress (Tour, 08/26/18)

Wicked (Broadway, 02/01/15 - Caroline Bowman, Kara Lindsey)

Wicked (Broadway, 02/10/13 - Donna Vivino, Ali Mauzey, Kyle Dean Massey, Randy Danson, Adam Grupper, Catherine Charlebois, F. Michael Haynie, Tom Flynn)

Wicked (unknown - Eden Espinosa, Megan Hilty)

*Wicked (Broadway - Stephanie J. Block, Annaleigh Ashford)

*Wicked (Broadway - Lindsay Mendez, Katie Rose Clark)

[freckleslikestars]

Jamie has new dreams he's building upon, and I'm still hurting.

25 films for 25 years {16/25} THE LAST FIVE YEARS (2014) dir. Richard LaGravenese

plot description from IMdB, [insp: ☆★☆★ ]

[godlessondheimite]

KARL WASN’T EVEN A REAL LITTLE PERSON??? CATHY WAS JUST HEIGHTSHAMING SOME GUY???

[brooklynbadboys]

so you’re trying to tell me that the great gatsby, the last five years AND the greatest showman are all coming to the UK and none are gonnna star Jeremy Jordan?

someone get me on a call to the west end asap.

[afireformyheart]

"hottie, hottie broadway hottie"

"i don't think that's what she wanted..." x

[slozhnos]

okay so jeremy’s concert on wednesday.

he started it by singing ‘broadway here i come’ and joking about how the show got cancelled right as he joined.

he then sang ‘moving too fast’ and mentioned the first time he sang it in a concert was not long before the movie came out, and some people in the audience were there at that concert. he said that concert was the first time anyone else heard him sing it outside of ithaca’s practice rooms and his kitchen.

after that he sang a bonnie and clyde medley while wearing the clyde hat from broadway. it was thrown to him, he caught it. he tried to tuck a rose from the vase on the piano into ben’s blazer pocket.

after that, there was the first ✨hair check✨ bc apparently the night before his hair got messed up from the hats.

he sang ‘for her’ which was beautiful and i loved it so much, he talked about how much he was going to miss the cast and the backstage pranks.

[becabeale143]

[mattivoda]

This post isn’t targeted towards this person in particular but I see this same sort of tiktok come up on my timeline every couple of months and it feels me with a very specific RAGE because of how wrong it is about the core message of this show.

For those who don’t know, the music from the TikTok comes from the musical The Last Five Years, made by Jason Robert Brown. It originally opened in Chicago in 2001, then making its way to Broadway in 2002 after great reviews from critics and audiences.

the elevator pitch of the show is simple; a writer exploding with success (Jamie) and a struggling actress (Kathy) and the rise and fall of their marriage.

Normally this would be a pretty basic musical, right? However the true genius comes from one key part of its storytelling: the order at which the story is shown to you.

Jamie performs his side of the story in chronological order, from the start of the relationship ending with their divorce. Kathy, however, tells her story flipped; starting with their divorce and ending when Kathy first meets Jamie.

The two actors almost never interact on-stage, singing solo songs for every single song except for the act one ending song The Next Ten Minutes, where Jamie proposes and the two marry.

Now you might be asking: why is this important to the story? and which character was supposed to be the “bad guy” in the marriage?

If you delve into the story and look at the way the story depicts both characters’ perspectives on what happened then an obvious fact becomes clear:

Jamie is an asshole and was the main problem in the marriage. You aren’t, and never were supposed to side with him.

Throughout the show, Jamie is shown to be obsessed with his own fame, gloating about how he seems to only be able to exponentially succeed in his writing. His obsession makes him blind to the struggles of his wife, even going as far as deluding himself into thinking his wife’s struggles is simply her being jealous of his success. By the end of the show, Jamie cheats on Kathy and proceeds to blame her for not allowing him privacy.

THAT’S why the storytelling of The Last Five Years is so compelling. By only showing these characters seperate from each other, it forces us to become familiar with Jamie and Kathy as individuals rather than a couple. It allows us to see Jamie’s douchebaggery up-close and personal, with the entire first act highlighting this glaring detail and allowing us to see the consequences of this as his marriage devolve in the second act. Just the simple fact that Jamie’s story is chronological creates a beautiful dichotomy between Kathy’s frustrations, sadness and abandonment and Jamie’s cocky, happy-go-lucky success story.

Before I finish writing this and go to bed, i’d like to say I don’t blame those who hold this view for thinking this about The Last Five Years for one reason only; the only way they got to see it was the movie version.

the film adaption of The Last Five Years (2014) decided that the reason the musical worked was because “interesting timeline go brrr” and decided to keep the original timeline, but instead had both characters constantly interacting.

Instead of having this abstract deconstruction of these two characters, with both Kathy and Jamie monologuing their personal thoughts and emotions separately, they mash together and create this weird, realistic depiction of a breakup. The performances from Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan were amazing, don’t get me wrong, but these choices in the adaption rip the emotion and soul out of its inspiration and sell the corpse for $20 a viewing.

Jamie and Kathy’s marriage is a cautionary tale about what happens when you don’t listen and understand your partner. It is not a desperate attempt of a composer to appear in the right about his marriage and it shouldn’t be a sloppy retelling of a failed marriage with a quirky form of storytelling. Please please PLEASE if you agree with this original TikTok’s message just know you are so UNBELIEVABLY wrong.

tldr; you are not supposed to side with Jamie!!!! he is in the wrong!!!! that’s the whole point of the musical!!!!! don’t watch the movie it sucks and is innacurate!!!!!!! RAHHHHHHHHHHHH