"The Last 5 Years," of course, is told backward and forward. Backward: Catherine starts at the end of the relationship in her haunting "Still Hurting" and gets to the beginning in "Goodbye Until Tomorrow." Forward: Jamie starts at the beginning with the hilarious "Shiksa Goddess" and reaches the end when he sings "I Could Never Rescue You," which makes the intertwined "Goodbye Until Tomorrow" so bittersweet it hurts.
Cathy's story is one of always trying too hard for little results, always pushing but to no avail. Sherie René Scott was beautiful when she sat on the pier in "See I'm Smiling," or on a huge pile of copies of Jamie's book in "A Part of That." She was radiant in "A Summer in Ohio," and her incredibly funny delivery in "Climbing Uphill" that had the audience in stitches is captured perfectly. There are no weird little cars, but believe me that "I Can Do Better Than That" had an illusion of motion that loses a little something when you take it out of the context of the show--but its delivery remains flawless.
Jamie is always overwhelmed, and he says as much in one of my favorite Jason Robert Brown songs, "Moving Too Fast." Then there's "Schmuel's Song," which is so tender it actually made me cry today. He becomes a bit less sympathetic as he goes on, but retains his bluntly honest feel in "A Miracle Would Happen." "If I Didn't Believe in You" is his last attempt to hang on to something good, and it's completely abandoned in "Nobody Needs to Know"--but both songs get to a deeper, harder-to-access person in Jamie than you want to think is there.
They also meet in the middle for "The Next 10 Minutes." It's a lovely song, but you miss more from the staging here: the way that Jamie's half of the rowboat conversation begins the piece is perfectly dovetailed when you later see Cathy's half...because they're both alone in the rowboat, but together for the wedding portion. (Ironically, it's scene 8...the one number that is the same forward and backward...)
Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie René Scott were without peer in the Minetta Lane, and they are the same way here. (Actually, I saw the show the day after this album was recorded--so the performances are extremely familiar to me.) It is a complex tale, and most of what you don't get is Jamie reading the story (excerpt?) printed in the back of the CD liner notes. Initially, it's easy to blame Jamie...but his case is presented so well by the end that it's hard to keep the finger on him. He's only human, as he finds out all too well. It's hard to blame Cathy or Jamie for their love's end...a very fitting message from this very delicately constructed human story.
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pleasepleaseplease add "a miracle would happen" or "nobody needs to know" on here.. i love norbie and those songs really show how talented he is.. and i want them on my profile :] heeh. L5Y is amazing ♥.
Please add "A Miracle Would Happen". It's the first song I ever heard from TL5Y and it made me fall in love with it.
P.S. If anyone is going to be in the Tampa bay area this month, TL5Y will be playing at The Gorilla Theatre March 2-19 Th, Fri, Sat, and Sun nights. I'm going twice!
Hey!
Thanks for the add!!!
I've never actually seen the musical, but, I have the soundtrack and it is absolutely AMAZING!!!!
Oh, btw, any way you could add the song Shiksa Goddess??
Love that song!
Haha.
Anyway, TTYL!
i was really excited that someone had a music site for this, because i recently saw the last five years and it was like amazing and then i fell in love with the music, i think you should put i can do better than that on here!! anyways whoever you are, its pretty nifty that you made this so thanks! =)
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