Rachel Zegler and Ben Platt’s ‘The Last 5 Years’ Album Is a Love Letter to Theater Kids

Tamara Ceaikovski

There are two sides to every story. And in the musical The Last Five Years , audiences are given a rare opportunity: a chance to hear them both.  Written by Tony award-winner Jason Robert Brown, The Last Five Years follows Jamie Wellerstein and Cathy Hiatt, a novelist and an actress who marry in their mid-twenties, and the struggles with success, maturity, and desire that eventually tear their marriage apart. Through 14 songs, the couple go through key aspects of their relationship: the first