Rachel Zegler and Ben Platt's 'The Last 5 Years' Album Is a Love Letter to Theater Kids
By Ct Jones
Published on April 20, 2026.
Tony award-winning Jason Robert Brown has released a new album, The Last Five Years, featuring Ben Platt and Rachel Zegler. The album was recorded during a 25th Anniversary Live at the London Palladium and features 14 songs about the same couple, Jamie Wellerstein and Cathy Hiatt, who married in their mid-twenties. The Last five Years, which defined an era of Broadway before there was ever a production on Broadway, was largely known through its cast album and revival in 2002. After its Broadway debut in 2025, the album has become a cult-classic. Platt, an Emmy-, Grammy-, and Tony-winning actor, credits the album as a crucial piece of musical theater canon and calls it a "lovely experience"
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