Rachel Zegler and Ben Platt Will Explore The Last Five Years at Hollywood Bowl and Radio City Music Hall
The concerts will follow a London engagement of the Jason Robert Brown musical, with the composer conducting the two stars on both sides of the Atlantic.
Rachel Zegler and Ben Platt
Golden Globe winner Rachel Zegler (Evita, The Hunger Games, West Side Story) and Tony and Emmy winner Ben Platt (Dear Evan Hansen, Pitch
Perfect, Parade) will join voices this spring for concert performances of Jason Robert Brown‘s musical The Last Five Years.
The concerts, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the two-person musical, will be held April 3 at the Hollywood Bowl and April 6-7 at Radio City Music Hall. Tony-winning composer Brown (Parade, The Bridges of Madison County, Songs for a New World) will direct and conduct the performances.
As previously reported, Zegler and Platt will also perform in The Last Five Years concerts March 24–29 at the London Palladium. Brown is also directing and conducting the U.K. engagement.
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 the Hollywood Bowl and here for Radio City Music Hall.
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