Exit 7 Players
The Last 5 Years
June 6, 7, 8, 20, 21, 22 at 8pm
June 9, 23 at 2pm
Exit 7 Players Theater, 37 Chestnut St., Ludlow, MA 01056
The musical The Last 5 Years follows two sides of rising author Jamie and aspiring actress Cathy’s relationship. As Jamie travels forward through their 5-year relationship, Cathy travels backwards, and the two only cross once in the middle. The show is accompanied by a bright and hopeful but sometimes personally haunting score, and it highlights how beautiful and building love is, while simultaneously highlighting how painful and sometimes devastating the challenges of living through a dwindling relationship can be.
Tickets and More Info
The show is traditionally done with a heterosexual couple – however, as a special Pride month event, Exit 7 Players has received permission and will be performing the show portraying Jamie and Cathy for the first time as a queer-representing couple! The company hopes that this contemporary spin on the show will help people see the similarities between queer and heterosexual romances, and that these relationships are often alike regardless of gender. Further, in another first and in response to widespread COVID concerns throughout the pandemic, the company will be performing the show with two rotating casts who will understudy for each other in any necessary event! The show stars Kelly Gagner and Kate Stango as Jamie and Shealyn Berube and Mal Sillars as Cathy. Both casts present their own unique energies and characterizations all without changing any words between one another, and the company excited for potential repeat audience members to see this!
