May Favourites

May favourites are here!!! It's like I nearly forgot or something... 

1) Clapper Board: The first few days of May were spent filming "The Audition Tape" a new web-series by 1995 Productions coming Summer 2015, hopefully! It was such a fun - stressful at times - experience. I can't wait to get the edit together and see the finished product. After filming so much for college or just vlogging it was great to make something creative that was just a passion project. 

2) MacBook Pro: I genuinely don't know how I would have got through the last few months without this lil' baby. Paperwork, editing, blogging, music listening, movie watching. It does it all. As the last lap of college came in I was editing my final project heavily as well as handing in every last bit of paper work at times I felt like I wasn't of this sometimes frustrating machinery. 

3) Business cards: I am now a fully fledged adult poised and ready to social network with my beautiful little business cards! ughhh I love them, I even bought a car holder so they sit nicely on my desk and another card holder than goes in my bag and keeps them all protected.... now to find networking events. 

4) Chasers of the Light (Poems from the typewriter series) -Tyler Knott Gregson: I recently ranted in a vlog that I don't have time to read a book. So this has been a great little companion as I do have time to read a poem or two in the spare moments that I do have. I got this a few months ago, I ordered it online and it finally arrived after a particularly bad morning and ever since it never fails to just make me happier.

5) The Last Five Years (Movie): I feel like I have been waiting a lifetime for this movie. TL5Y is honestly one of my most favourite musicals ever. Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordon are perfect within there roles and this movie defiantly didn't disappoint. Jason Robert Brown the creator even has a brilliant cameo. So if you do anything in June, find a store go on Amazon, GET THIS MOVIE! I have watched it a gazillion times since I bought it.

#MusicMonday: The Last Five Years - Movie Soundtrack

Life has been hectic the last few weeks, juggling course work, a part time job and a social life is rather tiring. It leaves very little time to try and maintain this blog as I would like to. 

This weeks Music Monday is The Last Five Years. I have been obsessed with this musical for maybe three years now. The songs are brilliant there catchy and uplifting, and also heartbreaking. 

The character are flawed beings, as all people are. Cathy and Jamie are one of the greatest fictional couples created… even if they don’t end up together. You can feel there joy and there pain. 

What adds to the genius is that that Jamie’s timeline is Start-End and Cathy’s timeline is end-start. So they contrast in emotions throughout the musical.

Which means the last song will undoubtedly leave you an emotional wreck as Cathy sings "goodbye until tomorrow", as she embarks on the relationship with Jamie not knowing what she is about to endure and Jamie sings “I could never rescue you” at the end of the relationship unable to try again. Her hopefulness and his defeat is so powerful. 

Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan star in the movie adaptation of the Jason Robert Brown Musical. Though still not available in the UK the snippets that have been released look amazing. The soundtrack sounds sublime. Kendrick and Jordan voices play on the emotions so well and I was not left disappointed by the new soundtrack. 

Highlights:

“If I didn’t believe in You” this is undoubtedly one of the best songs in the musical. It’s Jamie getting tired of the relationship, its relatable it all the best and worst ways. It shows the struggles of being in a relationship. Jeremy Jordan brings an more angrier, frustrated quality than Adam Kantor and Norbit Leo Butz and makes it his own, adding to the song, and what he is singing in the moment.  

“Climbing Uphill” is another one of the great songs from the musical and says so much that Cathy is frustrated with from beginning to end of her relationship with Jamie, she’s a frustrated actress who can’t seem to catch  a break. She’s watching Jamie who’s caught success quite fast and she knows who she doesn’t want to be, she doesn’t want to be just the wife of the successful writer. You can feel her pain, you can relate to her pain, the self doubt. You can feel the anger at the life that she definitely doesn’t want. Kendrick plays this amazing. 

This was longer than I thought it was going to be and honestly I could say so much more. This is genuinely such an incredibly written musical. It’s so easy to get wrapped into the world and relationship of Jamie and Cathy. Enjoy!

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First Look: The Last Five Years

This is the first look we have been given at the new movie musical The Next Five years, originally an off-Broadway production written by the fantastic Jason Robert Brown the film adaptation sees Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air, Pitch Perfect) and Jeremy Jordon (Smash, Joyful Noise) take the parts of Cathy and Jamie a couple who have ups and downs throughout there 5 year relationship.


The stage version plays both storylines out separately, first we meet Cathy she's at the end of the relationship and her story goes in non-chronological order, and when we meet Jamie he is at the beginning of the relationship and his story then follows in chronological order. There timelines meet briefly when the couple get married. Due to its interesting narrative I can't wait to see how the movie works it out.


But if this first look is anything to go by, I already have high hopes. Now all we have to do is wait till February...


In the meantime check out the cast albums from the two off-Broadway productions

Original Sountrack

2013 Soundtrack