Theatre Madlenianum started working on a new musical, the contemporary love story The Last Five Years by the New York writer and composer Jason Robert Brown. The musical about a love affair and marriage that lasted for five years, directed by Robert Boskovic, under the conducting baton of Vesna Souc and choreographed by Milica Cerovic, is being daily diligently prepared by Branislava Podrumac, Zarko Stepanov, Mina Gligoric and Dimitrije Cincar Kostic. The part of the Team of Authors are also Vesna Rezic, a set designer, Snezana Pesic, a costume designer, Srdjan Jovanovic, a lighting designer and Dusan Arsikin, a sound designer, while 3D mapping, holograms and projections are done by Matej Bodrusic and Aleksandar Rapajic.

The story follows Jamie, a young, talented, Jewish writer who falls in love with Cathy, an actress, struggling to build her career. Their love story, from dating, marriage, rows and splitting up, over a five-year period, is made as music “deconstruction” of a love relationship. All Cathy’s songs begin with the end of their marriage and go back to the period of love, while Jamie’s songs begin when they start a relationship and go towards the end of the marriage, and they “meet” at the moment of the proposal.

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Čim su to epidemiološke mere dozvolile u Operi i teatru Madlenianum krenulo se sa radom na novom mjuziklu, savremenoj ljubavnoj priči Poslednjih pet godina njujorškog kompozitora Džejsona Roberta Brauna (Jason Robert Brown). Mjuzikl o ljubavnoj aferi i braku koji su trajali pet godina, u režiji Roberta Boškovića, pod dirigentskom palicom Vesne Šouc i u koreografiji Milice Cerović, svakodnevno vredno spremaju Branislava Podrumac, Žarko Stepanov, Mina Gligorić i Dimitrije Cincar Kostić. Deo autorske ekipe su i Vesna Režić scenograf, Snežana Pešić kostimograf, Srđan Jovanović dizajn svetla, Dušan Arsikin dizajn zvuka, dok 3D mapping, holograme i projekcije rade Matej Bodrušić i Aleksandar Rapajić. Prevod i prepev stihova: Vesna Šouc i Jovana Jezdović.

Priča prati Džejmija mladog, talentovanog, jevrejskog pisca koji se zaljubljuje u Keti, glumicu koja se muči da izgradi svoju karijeru. Njihova ljubavna priča, od upoznavanja, braka, razmirica i razlaza, tokom petogodišnjeg perioda, je napravljena kao muzička “dekonstrukcija” ljubavnog odnosa. Sve Ketine pesme počinju završetkom njihovog braka i vraćaju se u doba ljubavi, dok Džejmijeve pesme počinju kada su započeli vezu i idu ka kraju braka, a „sreću“ se u trenutku prosidbe.