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Broadway Rose’s Filmed Production of “The Last Five Years” Makes Music Out of a Doomed Romance The play is a chronologically scrambled autopsy of the marriage between Jamie, a writer, and Cathy, an actress. At the beginning of
The Last Five Years, Cathy (Kailey Rhodes) sings, “Jamie is over and Jamie is gone.” If you’re wondering who Jamie is and why he’s over and gone, fear not the play will answer those questions. But that doesn’t matter so much as the cloud of wounded yearning that surrounds Cathy as she faces the audience while wearing a pair of jeans with a hole in the knee.