Tanya Moore is the music director of the upcoming Boat Club Productions “The Last Five Years” February 13-23 at Fitger’s Spirit of the North Theatre.

Whether acting, singing, teaching, music directing, performing with bands and choirs, or playing piano at church, Tanya Moore has shared her considerable talents throughout the Twin Ports.

Born in Duluth, she grew up in Maple, Wisconsin, and attended high school at Northwestern High School. “I loved doing every performance activity that my high school had to offer, including choir, show choir, band, dance line, cheerleading, theater, and speech,” Tanya said. “Choir was my favorite subject in high school. I also played flute in the band. I always say music was my only option. I never considered anything else.”
Tanya went to UW-Superior where she majored in Vocal Music and minored in Theater. She explained, “I began teaching private voice in the UW-Superior Music Conservatory while a student in the music department. I continued teaching in the conservatory after graduation while teaching voice at Hamlin Music Academy and in my home studio.”
She has music directed at the Duluth Playhouse, UW-Superior, Renegade Theater, Superior School District, and at Boat Club Productions, where she is currently music directing for their production of “The Last Five Years.”
Her acting and vocal talents have made her a standout in many area productions. She said her favorite roles have been Rosie in “Mamma Mia” (Opening show at the NorShor), Audrey in “Little Shop of Horrors” (UW-Superior), Lena in “Ole & Lena’s Wedding” (Change of Pace Productions), and most recently, Soccer Mom in “The Wolves” at UW-Superior.
“Playing Rosie in “Mamma Mia” will always be a special experience for me. It was an exciting time: a new theater, a huge show that had just become available; the cast was beyond enthusiastic. It was so much fun,” Tanya said.
She added. “As a music director, my favorite show was “Ride The Cyclone” at UW-Superior. It was a fresh, contemporary show that few people had seen. We had a cast that was a mixture of seasoned and brand new. They reminded me that theater can be truly magical. Watching the production come together was difficult and emotional and ultimately the most rewarding show I’ve music directed. I cried tears of joy at every single show!”
“Music is my job and my therapy. It is where I go to forget the heaviness of life. I have amazing coworkers in the theater world. Great, kind humans that I get to work with,” she said.
“It’s a unique workplace because you create a little family that you spend countless hours with and then it abruptly ends. It’s actually quite painful on that final curtain,” she added.
“Any theater person out there knows what I mean. I have just spent almost every day with you for the last two months and I don’t know if I’ll ever see you again! But we accept it because it fills our souls with camaraderie. It’s the best!”
Family Time and Love of Hiking
Tanya lives in Superior with her husband Greg, her two children Tabitha and Truman, and their two dogs Watney and Sky.

When not making music or spending time with her family, Tanya loves distance hiking. “I am section hiking the Pacific Crest Trail- Mexico to Canada. I just made plans to do my third section next fall. “

She added, “I also love cruising. My husband and I are about to take our twelfth cruise. We hope to do a European river cruise for our 25th anniversary. Fingers crossed!

The Last Five Years
“My goal is to assist the amazing cast, crew and band of “The Last Five Years” to tell this touching, painful, funny, powerful love story.”
“I adore the two characters Cathy and Jamie. You love them. You want them to succeed. It can, however, be difficult to stay on the side of these characters,” Tanya said.
“While you love them, they are making choices you might not agree with. I hope the audience is thinking, ‘What are you doing? Why’ You want young love to be idyllic. This show has honest and real moments that will hopefully make the audience feel all the feels. And the music . . . Amazing.”
Information on “The Last Five Years”

Written and Composed by Jason Robert Brown
Originally Produced for the New York stage by Arielle Tepper and Marty Bell Originally Produced by Northlight Theatre Chicago, IL
February 13-15 7:30pm | February 16 2:00pm
February 21-22 7:30pm | February 23 2:00pm
Spirit of the North Theatre, Fitger’s Complex – 3rd Floor
Box Office Phone Number: (218) 623-7065
Tickets online at boatclubrestaurant.com
This modern musical ingeniously chronicles the five-year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up and from break-up to meeting. Jason Robert Brown’s Drama Desk winner, “The Last Five Years,” has been translated into a handful of languages and was named one of TIME Magazine‘s ten best shows of 2001.
A testament to the show’s longevity, and spurred by the show’s regional popularity, “The Last Five Years” enjoyed an Off-Broadway revival at Second Stage in 2013. A film adaptation was released in 2014, starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan
An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years, the show’s unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells his story chronologically; the two characters only meet once, at their wedding in the middle of the show.
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