Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren are returning to Broadway!
The 2 will star as Jamie and Cathy within the first-ever Broadway manufacturing of Tony Award-winning Jason Robert Brown’s beloved The Final 5 Years, producers introduced Sunday (June 16).
The manufacturing might be directed by 2024 Tony Award nominee Whitney White, and can open on Broadway in Spring 2025.
The Final 5 Years follows two New Yorkers, rising creator Jamie and aspiring actress Cathy, as they fall out and in of affection over the course of 5 years. The musical explores whether or not a pair, as soon as united by their goals, can stay linked as their paths diverge.
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“The Final 5 Years is without doubt one of the biggest unique American musicals within the canon. I couldn’t be extra excited to deliver it to Broadway for the primary time with Nick and Adrienne, two powerhouse performers and lovers of theatre,” mentioned the director in a press release.
“I fell in love with this musical a few years in the past once I was a pupil at Northwestern. I discovered it then, and nonetheless take into account The Final 5 Years to be such a human portrait and a fantastic train in making time– the one factor we’re all certain to– really feel consequential. The songs are iconic, and the vibes are very two-thousand-and-now as a result of it is a story about artists falling out and in of affection and what occurs when one thing has to come back to an finish. There is no such thing as a place on the earth that may rip individuals aside and produce them collectively like New York Metropolis. I feel all of us perceive how onerous it’s to depart one thing behind; a lover, a job, a rustic, a relationship that doesn’t serve you anymore. However for me, the heartbreak on the heart of the present walks hand in hand with ample love and risk. I do know that audiences might be blown away, as soon as once more, by the brilliance of Jason Robert Brown‘s one-of-a-kind composition, orchestration and musical imaginative and prescient, and that they are going to see themselves in Jamie and Cathy– two younger individuals attempting to determine all of it out.”
“On June 15, 1999, I wrote the primary tune of a brand new challenge,” mentioned Jason Robert Brown.
“It was the primary time I had began a challenge with out realizing the place it was going to finish up, with out a producer or collaborators, simply me very a lot alone needing to seek out the music and phrases that may inform a narrative that was twisting my coronary heart into not possible shapes day by day. For twenty-five years, I’ve let The Final 5 Years lead me on its journey, by means of our very first manufacturing in Skokie in 2001 to our Off-Broadway premiere a yr later, an exhilarating movie model, a record-breaking revival at Second Stage, and 1000’s of productions spanning each continent,” he continued.
“I’ve at all times believed that when the time was proper, The Final 5 Years would make its option to Broadway. To have Nick and Adrienne taking over these roles is a composer’s dream come true, and to have Whitney’s extraordinary steering and imaginative and prescient is the hope of each playwright. It has taken twenty-five years, however the time is correct.”
The actors will current reside on the Tony Awards on Sunday evening (June 16) at 8 p.m. ET and can seem on Good Morning America Monday (June 17) to debate the announcement.
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