The Last Five Years

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Monday, May 7th, 2012
7:30 PM

REVIEWS FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS:

"the most sophisticated score we've seen in New York in some time." - New York Times

"beautiful and profoundly clever" - Broadway.com

"It's just two wonderful actors and a couple of fabulous musicians, and we're just telling a little story." - Playbill.com

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Starring in the role of Cathy is Nanaimo local Lauren Bush. A graduate from Abilene Christian University in Abilene Texas with a B.Sci in Music and Design, Lauren has performed internationally in Memphis, Barcelona, Toronto, at the Victoria Jazz Fest, the Corpus Christi Jazz Festival, at the Lionel Hampton Festival in Idaho, where she sang a duet with the great Bobby McFerrin. Locally, she performs with her own group, the Lauren Bush Trio. She has been selected three times for the PNE Red Robinson Talent Showcase, the very same competition that launched the career of Michael Buble. She currently teaches music and band at Cilaire Elementary.

Directing & starring as Jamie is Vancouver Island based Jesse Cooper. Jesse since graduating from the University of Victoria, Jesse played Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar in Vancouver's Centennial Theatre, Cable in South Pacific with Bard to Broadway, and Lockstock in Urinetown at VIU. Most recently He played the role of Tom in the Western Edge�s production of Glass Menagerie & directed Dr. Horrible�s Sing-Along-Blog as part of Fringetastic!�s Fundraiser, Geek Week at V.I.U. He is a prize winning playwright and poet and the brains behind Dramarama Theatre Company.

Jason Robert Brown won Drama Desk Awards for the music and the lyrics after the Off-Broadway premiere in 2002. Since then, this show has since been produced at almost every major regional theater in the US, and has been seen in Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Germany, Italy, Canada, and Spain.