Summer Reading Series: THE LAST FIVE YEARS by Jason Robert Brown

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• Tuesday, Jul 25, 2023  7pm

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July 25 | 7 PM | KIN | Doors open at 6 PMFood & drinks available for purchase from ART HAUS Bar before/after reading.NO PETS OR OUTSIDE FOOD/DRINK ALLOWED.Tickets $10 (advance/door)ART HAUS Bar Menu: https://www.kinboise.com/art-haus-cocktail-barThis is an outdoor event, with the bulk of seating on KIN's grassy hillside, so bring a blanket or low-backed chair.THE LAST FIVE YEARS by Jason Robert BrownModern musical ingeniously chronicles the five-year life of a marriage.Drama Desk award-winner THE LAST FIVE YEARS is Jason Robert Brown’s intimate window into a couple’s doomed marriage. Cathy, a struggling actress, and Jamie, a budding novelist on the brink of wild success, are 20-somethings in New York who meet, fall in love, marry, and divorce over the span of five years. Cathy tells the story from the end of their marriage; Jamie begins when they first meet. As the musical unfolds, Cathy moves backward in time to the beginning of the relationship, as Jamie moves forward from their first date to their last goodbye; they meet only once, in the middle, at their wedding. Since its Off-Broadway premiere, Brown’s funny, poignant, and devastatingly honest two-person production has enraptured audiences around the world with its spellbinding and emotional score and libretto.REVIEWS:
"The American musical is afflicted with a sea of ills — cartoonish plot lines, garish spectacles, prohibitive ticket prices — but none is killing it so quickly as the limp, forgettable melodies at its core. When he says, “I don’t want to live in a world of 27 C-major chords,” [Jason Robert] Brown speaks for all of us. We, too, long for the days of “Leonard Bernstein and Frank Loesser and Steve Sondheim and Jule Styne, Meredith Willson — these really smart musicians who created these worlds of music that were really great to live in.Which is what makes THE LAST FIVE YEARS ...such a welcome surprise. The saga of Jamie and Cathy (he’s a budding novelist, she’s a struggling actress) couldn’t be simpler — a he-sings, she-sings tale of young love’s bloom and fade." -Scott Vogel, The Washington Post"an engaging chamber musical infused with intimate, emotionally perceptive, nonstop songs in which the woman tells their story backward in time from the breakup and the guy tells his side from the smitten beginning." - Linda Winer, Newsday