Our 2007- 08 Season

Presents a Benefit Performance of
Jason Robert Brown's One Act Musical

8:00 P.M. – Tickets $20.00

The Last Five Years premiered in Chicago, was produced off-Broadway and has enjoyed numerous productions internationally. The show is an intimate, two-person musical that tells the compelling story of Jamie (Chris Di Meo), a nice Jewish boy, and Cathy (Sandy Yozviak), a good Irish Catholic girl, who fall in love, get married, and fall apart over the course of five years. Jamie is an emerging novelist enjoying his first taste of success, while Cathy is a struggling actress having trouble hitting it big, making their musical duets both wildly funny and crushingly sad.
Brown has employed an unusual temporal shift in the piece, with Cathy starting at the end of the marriage and working her way back, while Jamie begins on their first date and works his way forward. Only once do Jamie and Cathy sing together, at their wedding in the middle of the play. This underscores cause and effect, as two people whose powerful love for one another cannot overcome their cultural differences and divergent dreams.
Musically, Brown's score navigates the minefields of love and marriage through soulful, soaring music and lyrics that evoke contemporary pop songwriters like Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon, combined with the theatrical styles of Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein. Traditional Jewish and Irish musical themes are also played against the sounds, pace and complexity of contemporary life in New York City.
This poignant, richly dramatic and piercingly honest show is not to be missed.
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SANDY YOZVIAK (Cathy) is thrilled to return to the Narberth stage for this benefit performance after performing such roles as Emma in Jekyll & Hyde, Lina Lamont in Singin' in the Rain, Hedy LaRue in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and most recently, Sally Brown in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown. Sandy has performed with many local theaters in and around the Philadelphia area. Favorite roles include: My Fair Lady (Eliza Doolittle), Evita (Eva Peron), Carousel (Julie Jordan), Guys and Dolls (Adelaide), and Into the Woods (Cinderella). Sandy has performed with the Peter Nero and Philly POPS Festival Chorus and various professional and benefit cabarets in the area. Sandy also has commercial and screen credits. Most recently she was featured in M. Night Shyamalan's, The Happening, due out June 13, 2008. Sandy is a resident of Conshohocken and works as a third grade teacher in the Lower Merion School District.

CHRIS DI MEO (Jamie) is excited to be back on the Narberth stage. Chris has been singing, acting and dancing since he was 16 years old. He began in his high school gospel choir and soon began singing in casinos and beauty pageants in the Atlantic City, NJ area where he was born and raised. After receiving a business and economics degree from Rutgers University: Cook College, Chris moved to New York City to further study voice and dance. After a few years in NYC, he moved to the Philadelphia area where he has lived for the past 9 years. During the day, Chris works for HRH of Philadelphia, one of the Top Ten insurance brokerage firms in the world. He has been in several theater productions throughout the Philadelphia and New Jersey areas such as You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (Charlie Brown), Singing In The Rain (Cosmo Brown) and Hello Dolly (Cornelius), just to name a few. Chris has sung with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops and has recently recorded a Christian music CD entitled “Jesse Padgett: REINVENTED”. See more at www.jessepadgett.com

JOHN GRECIA is a full-time musician in every sense of the phrase. Since beginning piano at the age of ten, he has been consistently performing, composing, accompanying, and directing rock, classical, Broadway, and jazz. A graduate of the School of Music at West Chester University, John is director of music at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Ardmore, PA. and accompanist for the choirs at St. Joseph's University and West Chester University. On the other side of the coin, John is a prominent local singer/songwriter and leader of John Grecia Band: a four-piece rock group that plays primarily original music throughout the Tri-state area and beyond. John Grecia Band was recently a featured band of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival held in Park City, Utah. The band is currently recording their debut album to be released in Spring 2008. Now a resident of Broomall, John was a long time member of Narberth Community Theater throughout the 90's and is delighted to be back to be a part of this wonderful production! Find John on the web: www.myspace.com/johngrecia or www.myspace.com/johngreciaband.