Rachel Zegler, Ben Platt The Last Five Years Cast Album Is Headed Your Way

Rachel Zegler, Ben Platt The Last Five Years Cast Album Is Headed Your Way

The Jason Robert Brown musical was recorded live in London for its 25th anniversary.

April 04, 2026 By Meg Masseron, Andrew Gans

The special concert production of The Last Five Years, which has just arrived in LA following its London Palladium staging, will release a live cast recording April 20. Stars Ben Platt and Rachel Zegler revealed the news April 3 following their one-night-only performance at the Hollywood Bowl.

The cast recording was captured live during the London Palladium concerts, which ran March 24-29.

The special 25th anniversary production of Jason Robert Brown's two-person musical will next head to New York City, playing Radio City Music Hall April 6-7. Tony-winning composer Brown (Parade, The Bridges of Madison County, Songs for a New World) directs and conducts the performances.

The Last Five Years tracks a five-year relationship between Cathy and Jamie from beginning to end via intertwining solo songs, with Jamie's story unfolding chronologically and Cathy's reverse chronologically. The musical, which premiered at Skokie, Illinoise's Northlight Theatre before a 2002 Off-Broadway run at Minetta Lane Theatre starring Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott, has become a particular favorite among theatre fans. There was an Off-Broadway revival in 2013 and a film adaptation in 2014. A 2025 staging directed by Whitney White, starring Adrienne Warren and Nick Jonas, marked the work's Broadway debut.

Platt won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Evan in Dear Evan Hansen, as well as the Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance (youngest recipient in history). He later reprised his role in the Universal Pictures film adaptation alongside Julianne Moore and Amy Adams. He received a second Tony nomination for his work as Leo Frank in the Michael Arden-directed revival of Parade. Platt has also released three albums: 2019's Sing to Me Instead, 2021's Reverie, and 2024's Honeymind. He also produced, co-wrote, and starred in the award-winning Sundance film Theater Camp, which was released by Searchlight Pictures.

Zegler, who recently drew raves for her performance in the title role of the London revival of Evita, made her Broadway debut in Sam Gold's Romeo + Juliet, starring opposite Kit Connor with music by Jack Antonoff. She can also be seen as Snow White in Disney's live-action remake of the classic story and recently starred in the A24 disaster comedy Y2K.

The 25th anniversary concerts are presented by Live Nation-Hewitt Silva in association with Lambert Jackson and Cuffe and Taylor, with associate direction by Emma Butler.

Click here for tickets to Radio City Music Hall.