A Musical
music and lyrics
by Jason Robert Brown
Presented in Weathervane's
John L. Dietz Theater
November 1 -- 18, 2006
SPONSORED BY MARGARET J. DIETZ
Directed by Jacqi Loewy
Photo by Alan Scott Ferrall
Andrew Rothman as Jamie and Joanna May Hunkins
as Cathy in The Last Five Years.
THE PRODUCTION TEAM
Musical Director/Pianist
Jordan Cooper
Cellist
Corie Lint
Stage Manager
Bill Berry
Costume Designer
David Cooper
Lighting Designer
Mark A. Zimmerman
THE PLAYERS
JOANNA MAY HUNKINS
Cathy
ANDREW ROTHMAN
Jamie
About the Cast
JOANNA MAY HUNKINS (Cathy) makes her Weathervane debut with The Last Five Years. A graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College, she has previously been seen as Soupy Sue in Urinetown, Susan in The Full Monty (both at the Beck Center for the Arts), Eve in Children of Eden (the Players Guild Theatre), Woman One in And the World Goes 'Round (Solon Center for the Arts), and several roles at Mercury Summer Stock, where she also serves as company manager. Joanna could not be more excited to part of this show, having seen the original off-Broadway production and attending multiple master classes with the show's composer, Jason Robert Brown. She thanks Jacqi, Jordan, Drew, Bill, Kim, Brooke, Ron, Patrick, family and friends for their encuragement, and you, the audience, for supporting live theatre!
"For you, the inspiration within!"
ANDREW ROTHMAN (Jamie) has been seen in a variety of theatrical and musical venues around Northeast Ohio. His recent appearance was this past spring in Chagrin Valley Little Theatre's production of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change!, for which he received an award from the Ohio Community Theatre Association. Previous roles have included Eugene in Biloxi Blues, Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors, and Rapunzel's Prince in Into the Woods. He is also a regular cast member of Those Seven Little Words, a cabaret show. This marks his first appearance at Weathervane. Andrew currently serves on the board of directors at Chagrin Valley Little Theatre, where he also handles publicity and website/graphic design. When time allows, he can be found singing behind his drums or acoustic guitar at various Cleveland-area venues. He currently works for Main Sequence Technologies, Inc. (makers of PCRecruiter software) as web designer and jack-of-all-trades. He thanks "The Three J's" for sharing this amazing work with him and dedicates his performance with best wishes to the new Mr. and Mrs. Vargo, and with love to his own "Shiksa Goddess," Kristan Oelbracht. Check out Andrew's website at www.ARothman.com.
What's The Show About?
One of the most important musicals to emerge from the recent off-Broadway scene, The Last Five Years is a time-shifting,
two-person musical that tells the story
of a relationship from two points of view: one from the beginning of a romance up to its break-up, and the other from
the reverse order.
Cathy is a young Irish-Catholic woman who is also an aspiring actress, "climbing uphill" in her struggle to break into the business. She meets and falls in love with Jamie, a "nice Jewish boy" and a talented writer.
If men are truly from Mars and women are truly from Venus, The Last Five Years demonstrates through songs both hilarious and heart-breaking that relations between men and women will always be a mixture of happiness and strife.
Performance Schedule
November 1 -- 18, 2006
About the Dietz Theatre
The Last Five Years is presented in
the John L. Dietz Theater at Weathervane Community Playhouse. The Dietz Theater is an intimate, "black-box" style theater that seats only 45 patrons per show.
All tickets to The Last Five Years are sold as general admission only (or, in other words, "open seating").
The Last Five Years is performed
with NO INTERMISSION.
For seating, all ticketholders are encouraged to arrive 30 to 20 minutes before showtime.
Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the theater management, and may not be seated until an appropriate break
during the performance.
Learn More on the Web
Composer Jason Robert Brown's
official website
Jason Robert Brown's on Wikipedia
The Last Five Years on Wikipedia
Buy the score/libretto
Buy the original off-Broadway
cast recording
A The Last Five Years fansite
