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Julia Murney and Jason Robert Brown to Star in One-Night-Only L.A. Reprise! Production of The Last 5 Years

Jason Robert Brown
(Photo © Michael Portantiere)
Jason Robert Brown
(Photo © Michael Portantiere)

Julia Murney and Jason Robert Brown will star in a one-night-only performance of Brown’s award-winning musical The Last 5 Years on Monday, January 30 at the UCLA Freud Playhouse in Los Angeles. The show is part of the Reprise! Broadway’s Best Marvelous Musical Monday series.

The show chronicles the five-year relationship between Cathy, a struggling actress, and Jamie, a successful novelist. His story moves chronologically forward while hers is told backwards. The Last 5 Years won the Drama Desk Award for Best Music and Best Lyrics.

Brown’s other shows include Parade, for which he won two Drama Desk Awards and received a Tony Award nomination, and Songs for a New World. He recently released Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes, a solo CD of new songs. Murney was seen on Broadway in Lennon; her Off-Broadway credits include The Wild Party, Time and Again, A Class Act, and First Lady Suite. She will release her first solo album, I’m Not Waiting, this spring.