Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren are caught in a bad romance
Uneven pairings can thrive just fine in the wild, but the onstage mismatch between Adrienne Warren and Nick Jonas in 'The Last Five Years' appears woefully doomed from the start. And from the end, as Jason Robert Brown's musical about the rise and fall of a relationship is told both backward (from her point of view) and forward (from his). At least you'll have little trouble taking sides.
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