Lyric change alert! The original line from the Off-Broadway production is, “I found your book at a Borders in Kentucky.” Now Cathy sings, as she’s video-chatting Jamie about the horrors of doing summer stock, “I found your book at a Target in Kentucky.” RIP Borders.īrown added some robust string orchestrations for this romantic number where Jamie proposes, but he didn’t add as much as he initially intended. “We just sort of set her loose on it and said, ‘This is where you’re at, go for it.’ So she’s an animal, she’ll make up anything. “Most of the Schmuel interjections that Anna made are entirely her ad lib,” Brown said. There are no new lyrics, but there is some new dialogue. This was the hardest number to visualize for LaGravenese, who even admits to asking Brown to write an original tune so he didn’t have to deal with it. “At the end of the song, she’s just reading the manuscript for the first time when she’s realizes number one he used her in the book and number two he’s talented and where is that going to put her?” “She’s having a flashback to when he first started writing the book because she’s talking to people,” LaGravenese continues. ![]() “I was telling a story within that song that was going back in time as it was happening,” LaGravenese said of his approach to Cathy’s song where she sings about fading into the background of Jamie’s career. So I’ve actually outlived the replacement reference and gone back to the original.” “For the past 10 years now, I’ve been saying Oprah Winfrey, and now that doesn’t count anymore either because she doesn’t do the book club. “ Sonny Mehta is a reference for absolutely no one,” Brown says of the shoutout to the editor. While there are no lyric changes, there’s one that stuck around against all odds. Cathy shout-singing, “You could stay with your wife on her f-king birthday,” as Jamie leaves Ohio early is the only one that made the cut. Brown edited some of his lyrics to make sure the movie received a PG-13 rating. ![]() This is the only song where the F-word is used in the film. The music and lyrics are the same, save the addition of some percussion. “I decided because he’s a writer, he’s the only one who has fantasies,” LaGravenese explains. But look closely: this only happens during Jamie’s songs. ![]() “Some of Anna’s keys are actually different than either Betsy or Sherie so we had to adjust a little bit around that,” Brown explains.Īs Jamie regales the lore of his ex-girlfriends, all of a sudden the film’s first fantasy sequence starts. This song, in which Cathy finds the break-up note, is the same in the film, but certain changes had to be made for new actors. In honor of the film’s Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records soundtrack, The Hollywood Reporter spoke with Brown and LaGravenese to chart just how different each song in the film really is, complete with the original 2002 recordings - and a stream of one of the most romantic tracks from the movie-musical. While the score remains largely the same, there are some updates, both in the music and lyrics. ![]() Read More Watch Anna Kendrick Relive Her Relationship’s Highs and Heartbreaks in ‘The Last 5 Years’ Trailer
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