The Last Five Years Video

The story explores a five-year relationship between Jamie Wellerstein, a rising novelist, and Cathy Hiatt, a struggling actress. The show uses a form of storytelling in which Cathy travels backwards in time (beginning the show at the end of the marriage), and Jamie travels forwards (starting just after the couple have first met). The characters do not directly interact except for a wedding song in the middle as their timelines intersect.

We were blessed with some incredible musicians: Brian Bartley, pianist/MD; Avril Javel, violin; Talia Lindsay & Ralph Stricker Chapman, cello; and Andrew Becker, guitar.

The show has the most beautiful music along with a heart-wrenching story line. For a more detailed description of the show, click here.

This video is a short highlight reel, including the very funny audition scene and the well-known song 'Goodbye Until Tomorrow.'

Thank you to all at the Oregon Musical Theatre Festival for making this production possible. We hope to do it again sometime in the future!

South America

We had the recent luxury of performing on a ship that went through South America. The ship began in Ft. Lauderdale, then proceeded through a few Caribbean ports and finally hit South America. We went to Columbia, Ecuador, Panama, through the Panama Canal, the San Blas Islands, and ended in Peru. Below are a few of the highlights.

The most beautiful, quaint church in Panama City. We visited the Old City full of history and French architecture. The city is working hard to renovate the old building to restore them to their original construction. Really beautiful.

Hanging out in the Old City square.

This is the inside of the National Theatre there. Wow. It was so beautiful. I wish we could have seen (or performed) a show there!

The view of the city from the beach.

Now we are in Ecuador. We walked everywhere despite the hot weather. We stopped in this park here to enjoy a bit of shade.

The Panama Canal. Believe it or not, this was our first trip through the canal. The history of the canal is so fascinating and just exciting to cruise through. These are pictures of us going through one of the locks. We were so close to land, we were sure the ship would hit. We could literally reach out and touch the land. So neat to experience.

It was very interesting to see how the locks operated. It was also fun to see all of the people watching the ship from the shore. We were the spectacle to the natives!

And our last, and favorite stop, was Lima, Peru. Our time in Lima coincided with the G20 summit. The conference made our time there even more exciting! This is a picture of the presidential palace. You can see all of the flags representing the 20 countries that had their heads of state there.

This is one of the many churches throughout the city. They are all beautiful and grandiose.

Our AMAZING lunch in Mira Flores in Lima. Jeff enjoyed a local beer (which he surprisingly loved). The food, service and view were just fantastic.

This is the view of the beach in Lima. Lima has the most consistent surf in the world so there were surfers everywhere.

Overall, we truly enjoyed our time in South America. These are places that we probably never would have visited on our own. We feel so lucky to have a career that takes to all ends of the world!