The Last Five Years

This 2002 he-sang, she-sang musical by the gifted Jason Robert Brown (Parade) tracks soon-to-be exes along different lines of an X-shaped structure, in which his story moves forward in time and hers is told backward (in the sliced vein of Merrily We Roll Along). The callous rising novelist Jamie is played by pop pin-up Nick Jonas, and his "shiksa goddess" Cathy, an aspiring actress, is essayed by Tina idol Adrienne Warren. Whitney White (Jaja’s African Hair Braiding) directs the show's belated Broadway premiere.