Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren plan to star in 'The Last Five Years' when it opens on Broadway next spring.
Jonas appeared in several Broadway shows as a child. His only starring role came in 2012 when he took part in a production of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” and his most recent Broadway appearance was last year in the Jonas Brothers concert stand. .
Warren won a Tony Award for her performance in the title role in “Tina.” She also had roles in the 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 a story about the breakdown of a marriage. Although critics reacted little favorably to the work, it had a huge fan base and was widely performed. I've never been to Broadway. Partly because it's so small. With just two characters and one act. The structure of the drama is also unique: the male protagonist, novelist Jamie, tells the story from beginning to end, and the female protagonist, actress Cathy, tells the story in reverse chronological order.
The work was first performed at the Northlight Theater in Illinois in 2001 with Norbert Leo Butz and Lauren Kennedy, and later had an Off-Broadway run at the Minetta Lane Theater in 2002 with Butz and Sherie Rene Scott. In the decades since, there have been numerous national and international productions and adaptations.
There was a film adaptation in 2015 starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan. More recently, Cynthia Erivo and Joshua Henry appeared in a concert version in 2016, and Out of the Box Theatrics and Holmdel Theater Company performed it at the height of the pandemic. A memorable streaming production filmed in an apartment with Nicholas Edwards and Nasia Thomas. (The number of licensed productions of the show has doubled during the pandemic, as its small cast and unique narrative structure are conducive to social distancing.)
The Broadway production, directed by Whitney White (Tony nominee for “Jaja's African Hair Braiding”), will be produced by Seaview, which operates Greg Nobile's growing production company. ATG Productions, a subsidiary of British theater owner ATG Entertainment; and Season, the new production arm of theater marketers Mike Karns and Steven Tartick.