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March 19, 2008
The Last Five Years at Westport's
MTC MainStage
MTC MainStage, Music Theatre of Connecticut's
Professional Equity Acting Company, presents The Last
Five Years, with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
and directed by MTC MainStage Artistic Director Kevin Connors.
Performances are April 4-13 and take place at the MTC MainStage
Studio Theatre in Westport, CT.
The Last Five Years is an emotionally
powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers, Jamie
Wellerstein, a rising novelist, and Cathy Hiatt, a struggling
actress, who fall in and out of love over the course of
five years. The Last Five Years premiered in Chicago
in 2001 and was then produced off-Broadway in March 2002.
The Off-Broadway production won the Drama Desk Award for
outstanding music and lyrics, as well as receiving Drama
Desk nominations for Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Actor,
Outstanding Actress, Outstanding Orchestrations, and Outstanding
Set Design. It also received the Lucille Lortel nomination
for Outstanding Musical and Outstanding Actor, and the Outer
Critics Circle Award nomination for Outstanding Off-Broadway
Musical.
Kristin Huffman of Milford plays Cathy,
and recently appeared in the Tony winning and Grammy nominated
revival of Stephen Sondheim's Company, in which she
played a leading role as well as flute, sax and piccolo.
Kristin has performed with professional operas, theatres
and symphonies around the US and in Europe, favorite roles
include Meg in Brigadoon, Gooch in Mame, Grace
in Annie and Anna in The King and I. Her varied
background also includes Miss Ohio and Runner-up Miss America.
Kristin will be blogging throughout the rehearsal and production
of The Last Five Years on her Broadwayworld.com column,
"Actorquest."
Robert Sutton plays Jamie, and was most
recently seen as Sam Carmichael in the Las Vegas company
of Mamma Mia!. On Broadway, he was the understudy
for both The Beast and Gaston in Disney's Beauty and
The Beast. His other recent credits include Japheth
in Off Broadway's The Ark and P. Puff Diddy Daddy
in the Las Vegas cast of We Will Rock You. Regionally,
Rob has performed roles in Children of Eden (Ford's
Theatre), Camelot (Westchester Broadway Theatre),
Oklahoma! (Reagle Players), Mame (North Shore Music
Theatre) and The Scarlet Pimpernel (Sacramento Music
Circus).
The Last Five Years is directed
by Kevin Connors, MTC MainStage Executive Artistic Director
and co-founder of Music Theatre of Connecticut. Musical
direction by Matt Castle, scenic design by James Burns,
lighting design by Graham Kindred, costume design by Diane
Vanderkroef and stage management by Anna Becker.
Music and lyrics for The Last Five Years
are by Jason Robert Brown who was hailed as "one of
Broadway's smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since
Stephen Sondheim" by The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jason
Robert Brown's other musicals include Songs for a New
World, Parade, Urban Cowboy and 13.
The MTC MainStage 2007/08 Season is generously
sponsored by Shoff Darby Companies, Inc., with additional
support from The Daphne Seybolt Culpeper Memorial Foundation.
Performances take place April 4-13, Fridays
at 8pm, Saturdays at 5pm and 8pm, Sundays at 3pm at MTC
MainStage Studio Theatre, 246 Post Road East in Colonial
Green (lower level) in Westport, CT. Tickets are $35. Student
and senior tickets available on a limited basis for some
performances. Special gala performance on Saturday, April
5 at 8pm. Reservations suggested. The Last Five Years
contains adult language and themes and may not be suitable
for younger audiences. For reservations or more information,
call MTCMainStage at 203.454.3883 or visit www.MTCMainStage.org
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