The Last Five Years (Vocal Selections)

The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown. For Piano/Vocal/Guitar. Vocal Selections. Broadway. Difficulty: medium. Songbook. Vocal melody, piano accompaniment, lyrics and chord names. 126 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Jason Robert Brown, the creator of Parade and Songs for a New World, has written a distinctive new Off-Broadway musical. The Last Five Years tells the story of a failed marriage of 20-somethings: he a successful novelist, she a struggling actress. Her story is told in reverse, his conventionally moving forward. They meet in the middle at the point of their wedding. Brown's strong writing has found a solid following among musical theatre fans.

Our songbook features piano/vocal arrangements of 12 songs: Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You * I Can Do Better Than That * If I Didn't Believe in You * Moving Too Fast * The Next Ten Minutes * Nobody Needs to Know * A Part of That * The Schmuel Song * Shiksa Goddess * Still Hurting * A Summer in Ohio * When You Come Home to Me.

"Short, bittersweet and nearly perfect, Brown has come up with a winning combination of music and book." - Variety