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# New production company bring award-winning musical to Lichfield
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/new-production-company-bring-award-winning-musical-to-lichfield/
- Published: 2013-10-15T08:00:19.000Z
- Updated: 2013-10-11T04:47:06.000Z
- Author: Ann Mayo
- Tags: What's On, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 19:24

A musical penned by a Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist is being presented by a new Lichfield production company.

Studio Theatre Productions makes its debut in the city next month with the one-act musical, The Last 5 Years, written by Jason Robert Brown.

[![Oliver Rowe](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/oliver-rowe-2.jpg)](//lichfieldlive.co.uk/?attachment%5Fid=130508)

Oliver Rowe

The company is headed by Oliver Rowe, who is also chairman and Musical Director for Lichfield Garrick Youth Theatre.

Oliver will produce and star in the two-hander, alongside Kellie Humphrey, a regular cast member of Walsall Operatic Society.

“The Last 5 Years is about the five-year relationship between a New York couple,” Oliver said. “It’s an emotionally powerful and intimate musical about a couple in their late twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years.”

The show’s unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells his story chronologically. The two characters only meet once, at their wedding in the middle of the show.

[![Kellie Humphrey](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/kellie-humphrey.jpg)](//lichfieldlive.co.uk/?attachment%5Fid=130507)

Kellie Humphrey

Oliver added: “The musical is funny, honest and intimate, and has an exuberantly romantic score.”

Jason Robert Brown won Drama Desk Awards for the music and the lyrics after the Off-Broadway premiere in 2002\. The show has since been produced around the world.

A much-anticipated film has just been finished starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan, due for release in 2014.

The production comes to the Studio Theatre at the Lichfield Garrick for one week only – from November 5 to 9 at 7.30pm. It will feature a six-piece orchestra led by pianist Mike Cotton. Tickets are £10-£12 (£8-£10 students) from the Garrick box office on 01543 412121 or online at [www.lichfieldgarrick.com](http://www.lichfieldgarrick.com/?ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk).