Talk:The Last Five Years
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Is 7/8 really considered "challenging" these days? Bonalaw 09:36, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
No. I'm removing a lot of the POV here, and correcting the grammar (WAY too much passive voice) --C-squared 09:42, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
Does anyone know anything about the apparent upcoming London production? -- MikeyB!
- I know of two in CA that JRB is involved in but I haven't heard of anything in London. Cmouse 03:10, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
- : Apparantly a West End premiere will occur in 2006 MikeyB! 17:12, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
The West End production's closed now. Shame. ~
[edit] Synopsis
The synopsis section contributed by 161.253.29.138 is overlong for an encyclopedia entry (although it would be appropriate for a press kit or production booklet). It should be cut down here. --C-squared 07:46, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
- I've gotten through part of the synopsis—I made it through the first half of the show, right before "The Next Ten Minutes"—and cleaned up a few things. Unfortunately, some of my attempts to shorten it failed miserably, and it actually got longer in some places (clarifying ambiguities, for example). I think I did succeed in removing some of the production-specific points in the synopsis (e.g., "the lights come up on _____", "the curtain falls/rises", etc.), but there's still a lot of work to be done.
- I'm going to try first to clean up the writing with the rest of the synopsis, then tackle cutting it down. --C-squared 16:40, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
- Okay, after several months of putting it off, and looking over the thing again now... I just want to delete the entire synopsis. I really don't believe something this detailed belongs in an encyclopedia entry. This section should be two paragraphs at most, and really, the musical's not even that long. One might argue that trudging through this synopsis takes longer than the actual show. Please discuss. --C-squared 10:12, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Lyrical References
Should there perhaps be a section devoted to this topic? I mean JRB uses lots of Jewish words which I didn't understand and had to look up. Also there are lots of references to the publishing world (Random House, Sonny Mehta) as well as references to Cathy's work (Backstage magazine, for example). MikeyB! 11:43, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Nobody Needs to Know"
An interesting edit suggested that the song "Nobody Needs to Know" could be about Jamie sleeping with a man rather than a woman (because he calls the person "kid" rather than specifying gender). That is an interesting idea, but I think it is probably original research rather than anything that's specified in the show. First, the person in the song is almost certainly Elise. Beyond that, Jamie sings about dating lots of Jewish women, and about being constantly tempted by women that he's "always wanted to sleep with." Nothing in the show hints at him secretly also dating, or being tempted by, men. And, of course, the show is largely autobiographical and Jason Robert Brown is apparently not gay (he's married to a woman). So it's interesting, but I think it's someone's idea for a re-working rather than a description of the show, and hence not encyclopedic. However, it's good to see a new editor contributing, and I hope they'll keep on doing so.--TheOtherBob 03:36, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
