See What they are saying about "The Last Five Years"!
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★★★½....
Years is an alternately touching, funny, and compelling work to behold....an intimate tale that might just leave you walking out into the night air resolved to make the next five years better than the last.
Another Production Company’s directors Langston and Cleveland rise to the challenges of telling such a simple tale with a complex conceit....
Musical director and pianist Charlotte Rivard-Hoster shines brilliantly on the piano, which is almost a third cast member...
Reid and Riddle are energetic and endearing, creating an out-of-view chemistry wherein the audience only knows of their love and troubles as mirrored in the other’s eyes and their one shared intersection...
Reid’s...almost always compelling as a presence. Riddle...unbelievably charming...has an old-school appeal that plays nicely off Reid’s more contemporary approach
Chicago Theater Beat
Clint May
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Years is an alternately touching, funny, and compelling work to behold....an intimate tale that might just leave you walking out into the night air resolved to make the next five years better than the last.
Another Production Company’s directors Langston and Cleveland rise to the challenges of telling such a simple tale with a complex conceit....
Musical director and pianist Charlotte Rivard-Hoster shines brilliantly on the piano, which is almost a third cast member...
Reid and Riddle are energetic and endearing, creating an out-of-view chemistry wherein the audience only knows of their love and troubles as mirrored in the other’s eyes and their one shared intersection...
Reid’s...almost always compelling as a presence. Riddle...unbelievably charming...has an old-school appeal that plays nicely off Reid’s more contemporary approach
Chicago Theater Beat
Clint May
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"The Last Five Years" for the Next Four Weeks: Invest In It, and It Will Reward You
Both of these young Chicago actors have marvelous voices...Reid..cuts a remarkably beautiful figure in her creamy, dreamy wedding gown...Riddle...is a thoroughly competent pop singer and a handsome, engaging presence....
The acting is strong in this production as well, in that I really felt a connection between the characters, even though they are mostly alone when they sing to us...
The music in this show is beautiful, due to a combination of Brown’s compositional skill, the singers’ voices and the musical direction, conducting and accompanying of Charlotte Rivard-Hoster....Brava to them!
Riddle and Reid, and the orchestra with them, make you care, force you to pay attention, and lead you into the hope that your own relationships don’t suffer a similar fate.
Be prepared to think, to feel, and to be challenged. It’s a rewarding evening of Chicago-style musical theater...
Broadwayworld.com
Paul W. Thompson
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Both of these young Chicago actors have marvelous voices...Reid..cuts a remarkably beautiful figure in her creamy, dreamy wedding gown...Riddle...is a thoroughly competent pop singer and a handsome, engaging presence....
The acting is strong in this production as well, in that I really felt a connection between the characters, even though they are mostly alone when they sing to us...
The music in this show is beautiful, due to a combination of Brown’s compositional skill, the singers’ voices and the musical direction, conducting and accompanying of Charlotte Rivard-Hoster....Brava to them!
Riddle and Reid, and the orchestra with them, make you care, force you to pay attention, and lead you into the hope that your own relationships don’t suffer a similar fate.
Be prepared to think, to feel, and to be challenged. It’s a rewarding evening of Chicago-style musical theater...
Broadwayworld.com
Paul W. Thompson
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