Dear Evan Hansen
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Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway: Show Is Now Closed
Regular Price Tickets
ORCH $139
MEZZ $129
Secondary Market
$109
Dear Evan Hansen Summary
- Show Status: Closed
- Genre: Musical
- Dear Evan Hansen is 2 hours and 20 minutes long, including an intermission of 15 minutes
- 8 Shows per week
- Previews Began: November 14, 2016
- Show Opened : December 4, 2016
- Show Closed: September 18, 2022
17-year-old anxiety-stricken boy who gets caught in a web of his own lies after the death of his bully.
What's Dear Evan Hansen Like?
In Dear Evan Hansen, Evan is an anxious rising high school senior, who is taunted by the school bully, Connor. As advised by his therapist, Evan writes himself pep notes addressed to himself. When Connor finds one of these notes, he pockets it and makes fun of Evan for having no friends to sign his cast on his broken arm; Connor proceeds to sign it in jest.
When Connor then surprisingly commits suicide, his family discovers Evan’s note in his pocket, and assumes that Evan was Connor’s one and only friend. Evan is then invited into their family, a more traditional and well-off household than his single-mother home, and becomes closer to his crush, Connor’s sister. As the lie continues to blossom out of Evan’s control, the musical presents the heart and the humor of social anxiety and a sense of belonging.
Is Dear Evan Hansen Good for Kids?
This show is appropriate for children as well as adults, although the theme of suicide may make it most appropriate for children over the age of 10. Children under the age of 4 are not permitted in the theatre.
Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway Background
Dear Evan Hansen is a new musical set at a high school, with a score by the Tony and Emmy nominated, promising young songwriting team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (A Christmas Story, Dogfight).
The book is by Steven Levenson (The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin, Core Values, The Language of Trees). The director, three-time Tony nominee Michael Greif, can be considered an expert on helming musicals involving the tribulations of youth, as he was also the man behind Next to Normal and Rent.
The choreographer is Danny Mefford (Fun Home, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson). The first Evan Hansen – Ben Platt, who plays the title character Evan Hansen – took home an Obie Award for his lead performance, when the show had its New York premiere Off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre.
The show took home an additional Obie Award for Musical Theatre, given to Pasek, Paul, and Levenson. The show’s world premiere took place at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. in summer 2015. The play transferred to Broadway, following a sold-out run at Second Stage.
Post Pandemic Reopening Date
Open: December 11, 2021
Theatre Information
Music Box Theatre
239 West 45th Street
New York, NY 10019
New York, NY 10019
Seats:
1,025
Entrance:
45th Street, between 8th and Broadway
Theatre
Information
Dear Evan Hansen Marquee
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Cast Members
- Evan Hansen
- Zachary Noah Piser
- Zoe Murphy
- Gabrielle Carrubba
- Heidi Hansen
- Jessica Phillips
- Cynthia Murphy
- Christiane Noll
- Connor Murphy
- David Jeffery
- Larry Murphy
- Manoel Felciano
- Jared Kleinman
- Jared Goldsmith
- Alana Beck
- Phoebe Koyabe
Past Cast Members
- Evan Hansen
- Jordan Fisher
- Evan Hansen
- Andrew Barth Feldman
- Evan Hansen
- Noah Galvin
- Evan Hansen
- Taylor Trensch
- Evan Hansen
- Ben Platt
- Zoe Murphy
- Mallory Bechtel
- Zoe Murphy
- Laura Dreyfuss
- Larry Murphy
- Ivan Hernandez
- Larry Murphy
- Michael Park
- Jared Kleinman
- Will Roland
- Jared Kleinman
- Sky Lakota-Lynch
- Heidi Hansen
- Lisa Brescia
- Heidi Hansen
- Rachel Bay Jones
- Alana Beck
- Kristolyn Lloyd
- Alana Beck
- Phoenix Best
- Alana Beck
- Samantha Williams
- Cynthia Murphy
- Jennifer Laura Thompson
- Cynthia Murphy
- Ann Sanders
- Connor Murphy
- Alex Boniello
- Connor Murphy
- Mike Faist
Producers
101 Productions, Ltd
Stacey Mindich at Stacey Mindich Productions
Arena Stage (Associate Producer)
Second Stage Theatre (Associate Producer)
Production Credits
- General Manager
- 101 Productions
- Company Manager
- Katrina Elliott
- Production Manager
- Juniper Street Productions
- Casting Director
- Tara Rubin Casting
- Advertising Representative
- Serino Coyne
- Press Agent
- DKC O&M
- Production Stage Manager
- Judith Schoenfeld
Creative Team
- Book Writer
- Steven Levenson
- Music & Lyrics
- Benj Pasek
- Music & Lyrics
- Justin Paul
- Director
- Michael Greif
- Choreographer
- Danny Mefford
- Settings
- David Korins
- Costumes
- Emily Rebholz
- Lighting
- Japhy Weideman
- Sound
- Nevin Steinberg
- Projections
- Peter Nigrini
- Musical Supervisor
- Alex Lacamoire
- Musical Director
- Ben Cohn