06 April 2003

Someone in the cast made a copy of The Last Five Years for me. Its the most recent musical by Jason Robert Brown, the writer/composer of Songs for a New World. Its the story of a relationship where the guy starts at the beginning and the girl at the end and they meet in the middle and sing a song together and then end up where he's at the end and she's at the beginning. Its quite good. Listen to it if you get a chance. Here's a lyric excerpt from the end of the first song:

"Jamie is over and where can I turn?
Covered with scars I did nothing to earn?
Maybe there's somewhere a lesson to learn,
But that wouldn't change the fact,
That wouldn't speed the time,
Once the foundation's cracked
And I'm
Still hurting."

Incidentally there's a song in the middle called "A Summer in Ohio" about her on tour with some show while he's back in New York and ends up cheeting on her (well the song is just about her in Ohio going to libraries and finding his book getting more and more famous), but fortunately it isn't very good, I would have been really annoyed if it had been one of these songs written just to break Noah's heart.

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