The Last Five Years

I have seen it on stage twice.

Both cases, with professionals and in tiny theaters, sitting less 10 feet from the stage. It is an emotional show. The 1st time it had a couple of set pieces, chair, table, hair brush, that sort of thing in a couple scenes. The 2nd one was done, on a bare stage and I don't remember any props. I have not seen the trailer. Is there dialog with others in scenes, or are other people say in a party scene just used as props?

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Let me watch the trailer again and I'll get back with you.

I found a trailer (UK) for the movie. They have complete changed the format to make it fit on a screen. The only scene they share together on stage is their wedding. All other scenes are performed by one person, where any "dialog" is one side of the conversation or talking out loud to themselves. Very little of that, they use it to set the scene and go immediately into a song. The trailer doesn't make it clear if the movie maintains the stage version premise of the Kathy telling her story backwards chronologically from when they broke up and Jamie telling his forward from when they met, thus only having them on stage at the same time in the middle during their wedding.


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The trailer doesn't make it clear if the movie maintains the stage version premise of the Kathy telling her story backwards chronologically from when they broke up and Jamie telling his forward from when they met, thus only having them on stage at the same time in the middle during their wedding.

Well this is the IMDB description


Based on the musical, a struggling actress and her novelist lover each illustrate the struggle and deconstruction of their love affair.

... so it sounds like maybe it does.

Apologies for the necropost...

I am seeing it here in San Francisco at A.C.T. later this month. After a highly successful one-night-only concert version last year, they are doing a 3 1/2 week run of a fully staged production. The two leads are Zak Resnick (a replacement Sky in Mamma Mia! on Broadway) and Margo Seibert (Adrian in the OBC of Rocky)

http://www.act-sf.org/home/box_office/1516_season/the_last_five_years.html


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I really liked it! ACT's production was minimalistic but quite beautiful and innovative and all the music was really good. It had everything from funny songs and soaring ballads to really sad and poignant numbers. The reverse timeline storytelling was the most intrigueing and I love how basically the characters never performed together or even interacted except for one brief moment when their timelines "intersected" and then again at the very end.

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I must see this on stage someday. Did you say you had seen the movie? I love it so much. I can't tell you how many times I have seen it. Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick are so perfect in it.




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