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[Review] "The Last Five Years: Bringing A Musical to Gwangju"
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GIC Talk Review
SPEAKERS: Heather Aitken, Calen Cygan, and Caitlin O’Neill
WRITERS: Juyeon Lee and Ashlyn Winter
DATE: June 20, 2015
GIC TALK TITLE: “The Last Five Years: Bringing A Musical to Gwangju”
Heather Aitken, the Musical’s Director, started out the GIC Talk by telling the audience about ”The Last 5 Years” and introduced Jason Robert Brown, the Musical’s Author. Heather described Jason as a young and upcoming author with creating unconventional music styles. The play, a modern romance, is a story about the conception and ending/culmination/termination of a relationship between a husband and a wife, Jamie and Cathy.
This play is really interesting because the two characters do not meet until the middle of the story, and each character is telling a different side of the story, their side of the story.
We were introduced to two other cast members, Calen Cygan and Caitlin O’Neill, the other two Speakers. Also, Chris Bleeker, the Musical’s Stage Director, shared a few words as well. Caitlin even sang a song entitled “A Summer in Ohio” that will be performed in this show. It was brilliant and a great motivator to go and see the show!
The show is being performed on Friday, July 17, Saturday, July 18 (with 2 shows) and Sunday, July 19 at the Gwangju Art Hall Downtown. You can reserve tickets at www.gpptickets@gmail.com. Tickets cost 12,000 if they are reserved before the show or you can also buy tickets for 15,000 at the door (depending on availability).
For more information, find the Gwangju Performance Project online (www.gwangjutheatre.com) and on Facebook.
