Posted on April 17, 2013 at 8:27 pm
Hey all my delightful fans, friends and family!
The NY Times is running an article next week about the lingering influence of “The Last Five Years” and the passionate devotion the show has inspired over the years, and they’re asking for the recollections of fans and alumni of the show, as well as photos of any mementos. I would be so grateful if you would send them some of your memories and impressions. The Times has never been very kind to this show, and it means a lot to me if we can let them see what an amazing shadow “The Last Five Years” has cast over the years, with actors, musicians, students, teachers, designers, writers, and everyone else who has fallen in love with Jamie and Cathy’s story.
I hope you’ll take a second to go to this link:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/calling-super-fans-of-the-last-five-years/
and let the folks at the New York Times know how much this show means to you. It certainly has meant so much to me.
(And hey, copy me on those emails if you’d like! I’d love to see what you all write!)
Thanks so much,
Jason Robert Brown
2 comments
This is what I posted:
I vividly remember the first time I heard, “Nobody Needs to Know”. I was sitting in the parking lot of the grocery store while my young daughter slept in her car seat, and I contemplated my own failing marriage while listening to Jonathan Schwartz on WNYC. That song hit me like a ton of bricks, but Jonathan being Jonathan he didn’t say anything about it and segued into the next song. I NEEDED to find that song, so I emailed Jonathan at NPR and got a form email response stating that the volume of fan mail prevented them from responding to individual emails. I was crushed.
A few days later a kind intern at NPR responded to let me know it came from L5Y. I bought the CD and played it over and over again.
I was divorced six months later and couldn’t afford much, but I bought myself a used piano. On those night when I needed to take out my frustrations on the divorce process, I banged away at “Shiksa Godess” (badly, I might add, because JRB’s music is impossible for anyone to play but him). When I needed a good cry, I played “Nobody Needs to Know”. My daughters were both into high school theater, and as newly single girls, we belted “Climbing Uphill” on the drive to rehearsals. When I landed my first really good job as a single mom, “Moving Too Fast” was my anthem, and when I remarried 8 years later, we played “Next Ten Minutes” at the reception.
What’s amazing is that JRB could condense all the emotion from that 10 year roller coaster into an hour and a half show!
Hello !!
My name is Julia Guez and I won the 1st prize of a musical theatre contest directed by LARA FABIAN with a song of TLFY translated in french : “Climbing Uphill” becoming “Monter sur scène” (2011).
– Here is the link of the contest :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnEqyOIqEyc
– Photo of the day’s contest, with the french press :
http://www.google.fr/imgres?um=1&client=firefox-a&sa=N&rls=org.mozilla:fr:official&hl=fr&biw=1366&bih=605&tbm=isch&tbnid=-8MlhtC8IKIvWM:&imgrefurl=http://www.concours-cicm.com/news/julia-guez.html&docid=r9IXCTS-xVNINM&imgurl=http://www.concours-cicm.com/images/news/CICM2011-juliaguez.jpg&w=510&h=215&ei=AblzUaS3B_K00QWkpoCgBQ&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=374&page=1&tbnh=122&tbnw=243&start=0&ndsp=24&ved=1t:429,r:10,s:0,i:113&tx=133&ty=21
Jason Robert Brown, you are the best !!!
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