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The Last Five Years Film to Release Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick are the newest Jamie and Cathy to be recorded for posterity.

Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick will lend their voices to the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for The Last Five Years.
Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick will lend their voices to the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for The Last Five Years.

Time to add another Last Five Years album to your rotation. Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick — stars of the new film adaptation of the Jason Robert Brown musical — will soon join the recorded ranks of the original Jamie and Cathy, Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott, as well as revival performers Adam Kantor and Betsy Wolfe, as Sh-K-Boom Records prepares to release an original motion picture soundtrack.

The album will be available in stores and online February 10, 2015, before the film's February 13 release in theaters and VOD. Directed by Richard LaGravenese, the musical follows the five-year relationship between Jamie and Cathy, whose stories travel through time in opposite directions.

"Releasing this record is like coming full circle for our label," says president of Sh-K-Boom Records Kurt Deutsch. "The first cast album we ever released was the original off-Broadway recording of The Last Five Years, so this material has been very close to our hearts and souls, and it makes perfect sense that it would be the first film we ever produced. We are incredibly fortunate to have these amazing artists be a part of this project. It's a dream come true."

Featuring new orchestrations by Jason Robert Brown, the album was produced by Kurt Deutsch, Lawrence Manchester, and Richard LaGravenese, and executive-produced by Steve Norman, Lauren Versel, and Janet Brenner.