The Last Five Years

The Last Five Years - Jason Robert Brown's musical brought to the big screen with great performances by Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick. We got to see this on stage in 2008 at the Bread and Circus Theatre Bar, a very small venue near Kensington Market. Also got to see Jason Robert Brown in concert at the Glenn Gould Theatre, with some guest artists, and his brilliant Songs for a New World at Tank House, and Isabel Bader theatres, also Parade at the Berkeley in 2011, which at the moment is being done in concert in NYC. He is a brilliant songwriter/composer and it is always a treat hearing his songs sung. In addition the New York photography is brilliant, and the time passes much too quickly. I am already ready to see it again. There are few composers/songwriters who can bring off these almost soliloquy performances, only Sondheim, Jason Robert Brown and Jacques Brel come to mind. Songs like Still Hurting, Moving Too Fast, A Summer in Ohio and If I Didn't Believe in You. The film is filled with love, and heartbreak, and I am afraid too few will see this magnificent filmed musical.