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Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren are planning to star in a manufacturing of “The Last Five Years” on Broadway subsequent spring.
Jonas appeared in a number of Broadway reveals as a baby; his one starring position was in 2012, when he stepped right into a manufacturing of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” and his most up-to-date look on Broadway was for a Jonas Brothers live performance stand final 12 months.
Warren is a Tony Award winner for enjoying the title position in “Tina.” She additionally had roles in Broadway productions of “Shuffle Along, or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed” and “Bring It On.”
“The Last Five Years,” by Jason Robert Brown, is concerning the breakup of a wedding. Critics have not often warmed to it, however it has an enormous fan base, and is broadly staged. It has by no means been on Broadway, partially as a result of it’s so small — simply two characters and one act. The present additionally has an uncommon construction: the male protagonist, a novelist named Jamie, tells the story from starting to finish, whereas the feminine protagonist, an actress named Cathy, tells it in reverse chronological order.
It was first staged in Illinois, at Northlight Theater, in 2001, with Norbert Leo Butz and Lauren Kennedy, after which had an Off Broadway run on the Minetta Lane Theater in 2002, with Butz and Sherie Rene Scott. In the a long time since, there have been quite a few nationwide and worldwide productions and variations.
There was a movie adaptation, starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan, in 2015. More just lately, Cynthia Erivo and Joshua Henry starred in a live performance model in 2016, and on the peak of the pandemic Out of the Box Theatrics and Holmdel Theater Company staged a memorable streaming manufacturing filmed inside an condo with Nicholas Edwards and Nasia Thomas. (The variety of licensed productions of the present doubled through the pandemic as a result of the small forged and idiosyncratic narrative construction made it conducive to social distancing.)
The Broadway manufacturing, directed by Whitney White (a Tony nominee for “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding”), shall be produced by Seaview, an more and more prolific producing entity run by Greg Nobile; ATG Productions, a subsidiary of British theater proprietor ATG Entertainment; and the Season, which is the brand new producing entity of theater entrepreneurs Mike Karns and Steven Tartick.
