Provincetown Counter Productions Adds THE LAST FIVE YEARS To 2010 Winter Series

Provincetown Counter Productions adds award winning musical to 2010 Winter Series

Artistic Director Susan Grilli has announced that Provincetown Counter Productions will present Jason Robert Brown's The Last 5 Years at WHAT, March 12-28. This production replaces the previously announced Side Man by Warren Leight which has been postponed due to scheduling conflicts. Grilli will direct.

The award winning musical explores a five-year relationship between Jamie Wellerstein, a rising novelist, and Cathy Hyatt, a struggling actress. Both use their own unique point of view to tell their story. 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 Last 5 Yearspremiered in Chicago in 2001 and opened Off-Broadway in 2002.

Provincetown Counter Productions company members Denise Parks and Equity actor Ethan Paulini will reunite to play the couple. Parks and Paulini have previously appeared together in Counter's The Full Monty and opposite each other in tick, tick...BOOM! for which Paulini received a 2008 Best Performance of the Year citation from The Cape Cod Times.

Performances will take place at The Julie Harris Stage at WHAT. Provincetown Counter Productions is currently in residence at the Wellfleet venue through May.
Opening is set for March 12. The run will continue for three weeks through March 28. Performances will take place on Friday and Saturday Evenings at 7:30pm and Sundays at 2pm. Tickets are $22-$24 and are available by visiting www.what.org or508.349.9428.

The Last 5 Years is the latest addition to Provincetown Counter Productions' Winter Season that opened in January with the critically acclaimed production of Bernard Pomerance's The Elephant Man and continues with Tom Eyen's Women Behind Bars directed by Patrick Falco in February and Tennessee Williams' Classic The Glass Menagerie in April and May.Provincetown Counter Productions will also partner with the Provincetown Public School System to produce the Rodgersand Hammerstein classic The King and I in April at the PHS Auditorium. To learn more about Provincetown Counter Productions or to find out about subscriptions, audition and sponsorship opportunities or to make a tax-deductible donation visit www.counter-productions.org.