Kristi Slager
@ The Skylight Theater

October 5-13, 2007


Camelot Artists
The Theater Company of the Beverly Hills Playhouse
presents
Kristi Slager as Catherine
in The Last 5 Years

Jason Robert Brown's one-act song cycle The Last 5 Years -- which earned an off-Broadway production that opened at the Minetta Lane Theatre in New York's Greenwich Village on March 3, 2002 -- is a two-character pocket musical about the relationship between a successful young writer and an aspiring actress. Brown adopts a particularly complex structure to tell this contemporary New York City love story; Jamie (Sean MacArthur) presents his version in chronological order, while Catherine (Kristi Slager) moves backward in time. Thus, the show begins with Catherine's "Still Hurting," about her pain from the breakup of her five-year marriage to Jamie, and the second song is Jamie's "Shiksa Goddess," in which this young Jew exults in having met Catherine, whose chief attribute for him is that she isn't Jewish. And so back and forth it goes.

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