Monday, May 21, 2007

LAST Last Five Years Edit

The Last Five Years gets all of its power from its brilliant lyrics written by Jason Robert Brown. The wiki article does a great job of incorporating some of these lyrics as they tell the story of the play. However, I felt that one little lyric was missing as Jamie's christmas song for Cathy, "The Schmuel Song" is discussed. I decided to add that he tells Cathy indirectly through the song to "unlock the dreams you've lost" which pertains to her dreams of becoming an actress. This song is really cool, the way it parallels this dressmaker's life with Cathy's. To understand more fully the context of the lyrics, check out the article here, along with my edit!