The Five

The Five is a love letter to New York City, told one borough at a time. It's a show about the greatest city in the world in all its noise and swagger and heartbreak and ambition, five distinct neighborhoods, five different energies, woven into a single, electric portrait of the place that never stops moving. From the waterfront to the skyline, from the old standards to the modern anthems, it's the sound of a city that has scored a century of American dreams, with a detour or two along the way, because that's how a night in New York actually goes.

Built on some of the most iconic New York music ever written, it's an unabashed crowd-pleaser: brassy, cinematic, and instantly recognizable from the first note. The Bronx gets its own signature moment, a featured flugelhorn quartet that gives the show a warm, burnished centerpiece and puts four of your players out front. It's a big, bold, high-energy production packed with tunes an audience already knows, built for an ensemble with the swagger to carry a stadium and a crowd that'll be singing along before the first movement is done.

The music:

• On the Town (Leonard Bernstein)
• On the Waterfront (Leonard Bernstein)
• New York, New York (Frank Sinatra)
• Streets of the Bronx (Cool Change), featured flugelhorn quartet
• Empire State of Mind (Jay-Z and Alicia Keys)
• City of Angels

Permissions to arrange are required for all selections.