Original Off-Broadway Cast - Last Five Years
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Track List: Last Five Years
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- Still Hurting - The Last 5 YearsDownload & Buy
- Shiksa Goddess - The Last 5 YearsDownload & Buy
- See I'm Smiling - The Last 5 YearsDownload & Buy
- Moving Too Fast - The Last 5 YearsDownload & Buy
- A Part Of That - The Last 5 YearsDownload & Buy
- The Schmuel Song - The Last 5 YearsDownload & Buy
- A Summer In Ohio - The Last 5 YearsDownload & Buy
- The Next Ten Minutes - The Last 5 YearsDownload & Buy
- A Miracle Would Happen/When You Come Home To Me - The Last 5 YearsDownload & Buy
- Climbing Uphill - The Last 5 YearsDownload & Buy
- If I Didn't Believe In You - The Last 5 YearsDownload & Buy
- I Can Do It Better Than That - The Last 5 YearsDownload & Buy
- Nobody Needs To Know - The Last 5 YearsDownload & Buy
- Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You - The Last 5 YearsDownload & Buy
Album Details: Last Five Years
- Release Date:
- 04/16/2002
- Label:
- Ghostlight
- UPC:
- 791558400120
User Reviews: Last Five Years
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Totally worth it
, August 18, 2007Reviewer: KT-chan - See all KT-chan's reviews -
AMAZING
, November 12, 2004Reviewer: Angie - See all Angie's reviewsPros: very great story
Cons: sad ending
i LOVED this soundtrack. it was very touching and made me cry at several points.
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Pro Reviews: Last Five Years
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Jason Robert Brown's one-act song cycle +The Last 5 Years -- which earned an off-Broadway production that opened at ~the Minetta Lane Theatre in New York's Greenwich Village on March 3, 2002 -- is a two-character pocket musical about the relationship between a successful young writer and an aspiring actress. Brown adopts a particularly complex structure to tell this contemporary New York City love story; Jamie (Norbert Leo Butz) presents his version in chronological order, while Catherine (Shere René Scott) moves backward in time. Thus, the show begins with Catherine's "Still Hurting," about her pain from the breakup of her five-year marriage to Jamie, and the second song is Jamie's "Shiksa Goddess," in which this young Jew exults in having met Catherine, whose chief attribute for him is that she isn't Jewish. And so back and forth it goes: In "See I'm Smiling," the third song, Catherine details the reasons why the marriage is falling apart, then in the fourth song, "Moving Too Fast," Jamie describes his rapidly advancing writing career. The odd structure serves to add interest to what otherwise is a fairly clichéd story line of boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl. But it isn't what makes the work important. The real value of +The Last 5 Years lies in the writing. Brown's songs are beautifully written -- melodic, engaging, and full of witty, literate lyrics that comment on contemporary life. He has a good ear for vernacular speech, which may make his words sound dated eventually, but makes them sound like ordinary speech circa 2002, even as they rhyme and fit the music well. The conflict between love and career is one that will be familiar to anyone in early 21st century America, and in Butz and Scott, Brown has found two excellent actor-singers to express it. - William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide |
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Pros: Everything
Cons: You really have to listen to the songs in order
This is such an amazing score, with songs that are great for solo performances (if you are so inclined to give them). Norbert Leo Butz plays Jamie, the quintessential successful playboy, a stark contrast to the struggling and imperfect Cathy (Sherie Renee Scott). Some highlights are the two opening numbers, Still Hurting and Shiksa Goddess; the one time the two sing together, The Next Ten Minutes; Cathy's desperately intense (yet humorous) Climbing Uphill; and the finale.
Just watch out: this is a depressing musical. It's all about a failed marriage, and if you find that uplifting, I suggest psychiatric evaluation. There is no happy ending. You know from the very first song that Cathy and Jamie are doomed.
Refering to my cons, the music can really be best appreciated if you listen to the tracks in order. They lead into each other beautifully (my favorite being from See I'm Smiling to Moving Too Fast) and the transitions are seamless. So if you're the type to put your iPod on shuffle, just be warned: some of the tracks cut off suddenly.
But all in all it's a GREAT purchase - one of my favorite soundtracks.
"I swear to God I'll never understand how you can stand there straight and tall, and see I'm crying...and not do anything at all." ...