On Tuesday night, a select crowd of New Yorkers got to see a rare treat: a live performance of The Last Five Years, Jason Robert Brown’s beloved 2001 musical, starring two of Broadway’s most talented working actors. The concert performance at Town Hall raised funds for the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence and starred The Color Purple’s Cynthia Erivo and The Scottsboro Boys’ Joshua Henry as Cathy and Jamie, a couple in a passionate but doomed marriage. Erivo and Henry, who are black, by all accounts gave fresh life to two roles traditionally played by white actors. (Jamie is a Jewish writer who drops Yiddish expressions with some frequency, and Cathy is the “shiksa goddess” actress who tempts him into “breaking [his] mother’s heart.”) Vulture obtained video of two of the numbers from the first act, and they are enough to make you wish Erivo and Henry would quit their current projects—Henry is set to star as Aaron Burr in the Chicago production of Hamilton—and commit to a revival of The Last Five Years.

Erivo’s rendition of “Still Hurting,” the first song of the musical, is an astonishing vocal and dramatic feat. “Still Hurting” is Cathy’s stunned reaction to Jamie’s announcement that he’s leaving her. (Cathy tells the story of their marriage in reverse chronological order, while Jamie tells it going forward in time.) Erivo’s wry body language and facial expressions paint an exquisite portrait of a woman who is feeling defensive but not humorless after receiving a blow she wasn’t expecting. As she twists her left-hand ring finger during an instrumental bridge, she seems to be considering all the implications of her failed marriage for the very first time. It’s rare to see a musical theater performance so natural and rooted in the present moment—and even if you couldn’t shell out $250 to be at Town Hall, you’ll feel lucky to see it captured on video.