still hurting: 0:38 shiksa goddess: 5:08 see im smiling: 9:08 moving too fast: 15:05 a part of that: 20:03 schmuel song: 24:26 summer in ohio: 32:12 the next ten minutes: 36:21 a miracle would happen: 43:32 when you come home to me: 46:04 climbing uphill: 49:04 if i didn’t believe in you: 56:41 i can do better than that: 1:01:18 nobody needs to know: 1:06:17 goodbye until tomorrow: 1:12:44 i could never rescue you: 1:15:30 :)

Thank god this isn’t a bootleg of “The Last 5 Years”

I was studying this musical for my final musical project in high school and I remember after listening to Shiksa Goddess looking at the comments someone wrote something along the lines of, "Their relationship was doomed from the start. The very first song that Jamie sings about Cathy, he sings about all the things she isn't instead of the things that she is like 'kind funny sweet' etc." Ever since reading that it really made me realise that if someone idolises the idea of you and who they could turn you into, not you and who you are the relationship really is doomed.

I love the little detail of Cathy flipping through the book during “I’m a Part of That” as if she’s trying to find herself in the dedications and confirm she is literally ‘a part of that’ and it seems she doesn’t find her name. I’ve always taken that song to be Cathy trying to convince herself that she’s a part of it despite feeling isolated and left behind in Jamie’s shadow and a lot of Cathys don’t really portray that angle I don’t think, so the detail with the book I think really added to the song and makes the meaning of it more literal as Cathy tries and fails to be a ‘part’ of the book/Jamie’s career. This was a fantastic production of this show!

WOW I LOVE HER VOICE. Also someone said they always thought Cathy sang “Jamie has new dreams, he’s building a pond” and now I can’t unhear it lmao

honestly, this cast is so good and it's so refreshing to see a new take on Jamie

Margo’s portrayal of Cathy in this is so good omg 😩♥️

My heart breaks every time Cathy and Jamie sings the last "Do" of "I do" in The Next Time Minutes.. the only note they ever sing in unison **sobs** Forever loving the storytelling in this show

I'm a minute in and this is already the best staging I have seen for this show. Update: that was the best version of this show i have ever seen

the LIGHTING CHOICES my goodness

zak’s runs & belts give me LIFE

not me re-watching "isn't he wonderful just 28, the savior of writing?!" on loop for 25 minutes... god she KILLS IT

“I will not be the girl stuck at home in the burbs with the baby the dog and the garden of herbs” 👁👄👁 me watching this knowing my mom tried to be a broadway actress and when she failed she married my author dad and moved to the suburbs

the amount of times i audibly gasped and reacted out loud.This was EVERYTHING.I felt like I was seeing this show for the first time.

first likable jamie ive ever watched lmao i really like this guy

Ooof...the part where she is flipping through his book stating/asking that she is "a part of that" start of the heartbreak for Cathy...

36:33 pov: Jamie thinks you're John Lennen

This Jaime comes off as so much more genuine and less condescending and it makes the show even more sad honestly

That light cue at the beginning I-

piano goes so crazy 24/7

Damn. These actors really made both Cathy and Jamie more endearing and likable, which, of course, makes the whole thing even more devastating.

I think that whoever directed the stage version was team Jamie while the director of the movie was team Cathy

tag yourself, i’m the person sniffling during The Next Ten Minutes

gasp my first time hearing Cathy with a lower voice :’) I love itttt

I love the staging of this version so much - who would have thought that a scarf could make me cry? Also I really really love the way Jamie is characterised as - kind of a naive dumbass who grows and changes and gradually becomes more and more worn down and bitter and lonely. I really believe that he loved Cathy, and so it really hurts to watch him realise that he has to leave her. The most random thing I love is the decision to make Shiksa Goddess an internal monologue type thing, and not something he's saying directly to Cathy or a shadow Cathy. It makes a nice parallel to Cathy's bit of Goodbye Until Tomorrow, and it makes some of the more exaggerated stuff slightly more palatable if it's something he's saying to himself, and not a cheesy one liner. (nobody has ever called me a goddess to my face, but I feel like that would kind of make me cringe a bit). Plus it means that "Maybe I could be in love with someone like you" is a genuine moment of realisation and not a kind of - backhanded compliment that he gives to every girl he sleeps with. My only grievance with this production is that they added a lot of depth and humour to Jamie without doing the same for Cathy - I do thing Margo Seibert is a good singer, and she gave a great performance, but her Cathy is pretty one note, just kind of uptight and angry, which is a shame. It makes it a bit hard to see why the young goofy Jamie would feel he could relate to her. Her voice is gorgeous though. But all things considered this is a really beautiful production and the director and actors did a wonderful job.

"If I hadn't believe in you, I wouldn't have loved you at all" always gets me. The first time I ever saw the show that was the line that punched me in the gut and it still always makes me hate Jamie (even more than him yelling or cheating). Idk if that's just me, but this Jamie was great so it just struck me again.

Lord in heaven this dude is a good Jamie

Ok Summer in Ohio was literally perfect

This is absolutely incredible. After so much time spent with the movie version, their takes on the characters are so full and refreshing.

MARGO is a GENIUS WTF I LOVE THIS

This show is great for Covid times I saw it a few days ago and they never had to touch and it didn’t seem to change the legacy of the show!

I LOVE THIS CATHY!!!!

This is the best "If I didn't believe in you" I've ever seen. He gets it perfectly. It's a pep talk he's annoyed to be having, and the eye roll to that escalation at the bridge was just a perfect choice.

I love when the cast comes out for bows smiling and proud while I am literally sobbing

Oof, this made me see things from Jamie's point of view in ways I never wanted to. The part where he calls her, excited to share his news, and he cuts him off and grills him about a woman he isn't into (yet). Obviously Jamie makes mistakes, but he did genuinely love her at one point.

this is margo's world and we're all just living in it

this is genuinely the best production of this show I have seen, zak and margo are just incredible.

Never knew a scarf could make me cry damn

i was lucky enough to see this production and have been dying to watch it all over again since i left! tysm!

the moment that he sees her for the first time when she gets in the boat is so beautiful , it made me cry so hard

I LOVE this Jamie’s version of "Nobody Needs to Know" because the pain and inner conflict with himself is so apparent in this. You can see that he loves Cathy and is truly freaked by his actions. He’s generally torn between being committed to Cathy vs getting the love he really needs. It's clear that this affair was caused by miscommunication and feeling distant from Cathy. Whereas in Jeremy Jordan's version, it’s clear that he HAS to be loved by someone and is more desperate for connection. It feels like he has less love for Cathy than this Jamie does. Both versions are fantastic, but I really like this one because of how deeply conflicted he is and how scared he is of his actions

im someone who's indirectly hurt by cheating by people like my father or even my grandparents. so i walked into this musical fully expecting to hate jaime. and somehow the actor managed to get me to emphasize with him. genuinely phenomenal acting. from both jaime and cathy's actors

we LOVE a healthy belt holy shittttttttt chILls

These two are the BEST by far, their voices and delivery

It would be such a shame if this was a bootleg of "last five years". So glad it's not.

This is my first time watching a stage version of The Last Five Years and I would say the transition going back to Cathy in The Next Ten Minutes is much more effective in here rather than in the movie. I LOVE IT SO MUCH I WAS LIKE SCREAMING THE WHOLE TIME! HAHAHAHA🤣

WOW , Zak is gorgeous , 6'3 and fit. And he's got a voice. I am a fan.

"My people have suffered for thousands of years and I don't give a shit" is lowkey my favourite line ever

This musical makes my mood rise and fall more than Jamie’s jackets

I love this show because there are so many moments to pull honestly from in each character that if you watch two different versions you could get two different stories. Did she really mean that? Is he just being defensive? Was this a retaliation or an instigation? There are so many complexities, probably because it's based on someone's actual life and story.

this is like my fav one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! multiple productions like villainizing jamie (it's also very easy to do so, pick a side and go from there) we know right. i love how this version plays it, cuz as far as i know, tl5ys is not about how jamie is a monster who fucked is marriage for fun and more abt a relationship that didn't... work; not bc there's a villan or whatever, but more in the sense that some relationships end. this musicals screams that to me. jamie and cathy arent even in the same vibration, u can see that they're so disconnected by the way the story is told. i think it's so dumb how people like arguing abt which side is the right one when clearly there isn't.

Oh my god the actors are so good!!!! Margo is an amazing cathy!!!😍🤗

One of the best stagings I have ever seen.

The version of shiksa goddess in this is amazing!!!! 🥰

Dancing in Next ten minutes is so great! Fits perfectly!!!

can't get enough of Jamie's voice!!!

Wow, "Nobody Needs to Know" is spectacular. Definitely one of the best I've seen. Great job by the both of them overall!

My gosh I've been rewatching this again and again for a year now! Thank you for this gem.

AWESOME performances of actors and musicians!!!! Thanks!

I love this production and that it's viewable here. Go from the last scene to the first...never been able to do that before. Kudos to the staging here...

This is amazing!! I love this show and the recording quality is great!! Thank you!!

watch me have a crush on another broadway actor...you know now that im really listening he kinda sounds like ben platt

This is such an incredible production, thanks for sharing it! Makes TL5Y feel new again

This is only my second time seeing a live stage production of this musical but I've listened to the original cast recording probably over 500 times at this point and I'm absolutely shook at so many of the little details here that really add to it: their costumes as a way of showcasing the passage of time (the watch, the scarf, the rings). The parallel shot of her picking up his scarf and smelling it vs. him backstage holding the scarf out. Her putting the watch in the box vs. him giving it to her during The Schmuel Song. The little touches of humor here and there and like many other comments say the softening of Jamie's character -- I've never been really team either one of them bc I think they're both pretty awful people to each other BUT this made me feel so much sympathy for both of them, just in the way they were acted. Massive kudos to Margo and Zak. Also, something that really struck me watching it is how a lot of the musical's tragedy comes from how isolated both Cathy and Jamie are forced to be. They both go through the highs AND lows of their relationship entirely alone, and so does the audience. Even though we see both of their sides of the same/similar events as the musical progresses, it's very clear how separated they're meant to be seen from the start. Even The Next Ten Minutes, which is their literal wedding, only brings them together chronologically for about six and a half minutes before they're separated again, and here it was staged so well I teared up: the way it starts with him not wearing a coat and talking to her in the boat, and then she shows up in his coat and it ends with him giving it back to her so we see her on the other side of the boat talking to him? Please. I don't know why this is one of my favorite musicals of all time because it is just SO sad and I normally hate sad endings but here we are, lol.

this is sooooooo goooood omg thanku

CHILLS LITERAL CHILLS

Thank you thank you thank you. THAT WAS INCREDIBLE

When I first watched this show, I was kinda like “Team Cathy, duh! Jamie was never there and he cheated”. But after rewatching it, I began to understand Jamie’s side even more. He was trying his best but he couldn’t help Cathy because her problems were more internal and they wouldn’t be fixed with external presence & words & stuff… In the end, they’re both wrong at some point and it’s just so SAD This show is just so raw and profound and even with the simplicity of the production, staging, & orchestration, the way it’s told is so poetic and *beautiful* And also, THIS PRODUCTION DID SO WELL IN PORTRAYING THE STORY **sobs**

Thank you so much for this!!

THIS JAMIE IS AMAZING !!! 😍😍

I love this so much, they're so good!

This show is so heartbreakingly beautiful

zak is unreal

23:08 one of the most heartbreaking moments in the show tbh

i saw margo in in transit a little after this show happened! i thought she looked familiar!

rewatching this and feel like I noticed something... during Im apart of that she looks through the book at the end. I’m assuming she is looking for her name in the dedication of his book but doesn’t see it.

theory: "i could never rescue you" plays at their wedding bc that's the moment their relationship was doomed to end badly

58:35 oh my god i always find new things in this boot to love! i actually saw Zak at a stage door visiting a friend but I didn't want to interrupt them

This is so good the Jamie is so good ❤️

god zak's vocals choices are so fucking good

Its good that this is not a bootleg, I was worried at first. I sure hope no one goes and posts a bootleg of the 2013 version with betsy wolfee and Adam Kantor either.

I’m a minute in and I already love it!!

Thank you!!

this is terrific

tfw your husband cancels you

Better than almost every other production I've seen of The Last 5 Years! Like so natural and not these fake pop sounding people. These guys, Norbert and Sheri are my favs.

fantastic!

Thank you, I’ve been looking everywhere for this! Would you happen to have a google drive link?

Get this guy to sing these songs in a studio pls

I think Margo spots the camera in “I Can Do Better Than That”

Its refreshing to see a Cathy that isn’t naisley

they'd be perfect for a Will & Grace musical

Hehehehe good one :) great upload!!

AH beautiful!!

I think I'm responsible for at least half of this bootleg views

WHAT will you post NEXT for our musical theatre enjoyment?

That is one attractive Jamie

Mesmerizing.

As someone who was first exposed to The Last Five Years through Jeremy Jordan & Anna Kendrick's portrayals, I have to say it's very interesting how the stage production does things. If I had no clue what the show was about and I had watched the play live first, I feel like it would have been more confusing, though? I mean, obviously you get the playbill but was there any kind of brief announcement about the "synopsis" or the show before it started?

if anyone has this with samantha barks and jonathan bailey i'm dying to relive that show