Released by Atlantic Records in 2017 containing music from Dear Evan Hansen (2016). Audition season's in full swing, so I thought I'd share a clip from my self-tape for the Dear Evan Hansen national tour! We havent really made a big deal about it right now, but our key art shows Evans torso with his arm in the cast. Today is going to be a good day, and here's why; because today, no matter what else you are you. SL: Yes, Rent was very big for all three of us. SM: The extraordinary thing that happened with this show right from our very first production at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., was that people organically found us. with monologues . Well, I had to explain the telephone to one of my kids recently, like a payphone because they saw a payphone. Heres whats actually happening. Explain to me how long a show takes to get through? The Broadway hit-turned-film Dear Evan Hansen ' s ending created some controversy and a flurry of questions. I think that was really what I took away from it, and its interesting that Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook did a 6,000-word essay about this, essentially saying that the solution to an over-Facebook of the world is more Facebook. The next thing I want you to talk about is where theater is going. - The fourth letter in "Sincerely, Me" and the final letter of the first act. EVAN. They may have started finding us because Ben Platt was about to come out in the second Pitch Perfect movie, or because Pasek and Paul had a following of millennials who were very adept at social media. Its about a high school student with a social anxiety disorder and a problem with the internet. Can you talk about each of the characters? Doesnt this acquaint? It is an awful, awful thing he does. When I was younger, I was like, Oh, Ill just put this book on my physical book, like, What?. A speech Evan writes about Connor then goes viral. Please consider making a one-time contribution to Vox today. SL: It is, but that idea that these shows, all they are is the next performance. Just, uh, you knowbe true to yourself. People have said to me, theyre sure he has Aspergers or something else. Film adaptation of the Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical about Evan Hansen, a high school senior with Social Anxiety disorder and his journey of self-discovery and acceptance following the suicide of a fellow classmate. A battle over freedom of expression at a Concord, N.H., elementary school. Good to know. It turns out to be false, or an advertising or a marketing thing. SM: She is also lonely. producer and book writer of the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen.. Sep 23, 2019 - Explore Abby Gallegos's board "Monologues" on Pinterest. I can only tell you the funny story that we all just do things too quickly, and we make silly mistakes all the time. It was fascinating to have all that going on at once. SM: Heidi Hansen, yeah, Evan's mom. I think thats what Evan taps into is, even though what he says isnt true, theres something that feels true about it. Easy to talk to. If you haven't seen it, let me attempt to briefly summarize the show's somewhat unbelievable plot. And intellig but, just be yourself!! Dear Evan Hansen, Today is going to be an amazing day and here's why: because, uh, because today all you have to do is just be yourself. It is a conversation starter. This time, this time he won't let go. Evan Hansen, a young man beset by social-anxiety disorder, is ordered by his therapist to write self-addressed motivational letters to himself in order to improve his disposition and communication skills. Oh very much, so no matter what you do People bringing, its like an old Seinfeld episode, remember? That process has taken us a long time. As much of a blessing as it is, we want the people who love our show and loved it first to be able to come. How do you feel like you can work into that, because he sells fake news? How did this become a phenomenon? The teens are doing revenge porn like Evan. Its not scalable. That is cool. I think shes a really funny, dark person. How Trump uses it is fascinating. It means, Do your homework, brush your teeth. Dear Evan Hansen (2021) centers on Evan Hansen (Ben Platt), a high school student with social anxiety disorder whose letter to himself, one that was not meant to be seen by others, lands into the wrong hands of fellow classmate, Connor Murphy (Colton Ryan), who, as a result, commits suicide. I talked about mistakes. Theyre our community, because this show actually started out with a little bit of an ensemble that got cut after our workshop, but Will is the comic relief. There is haptic touch. Hashtag youre not alone. Monologues are presented on StageAgent for educational purposes only. You got involved with this, and what were you thinking, Steven? SL: Yeah, it begins with the boy in his room with his computer, and before the orchard, it ends with him finally face to face with his mother, no screens between them, really having to tell each other the truth. SL: Yes, and Cynthia is still, I think, struggling and fighting and searching for a way to get through to him, whereas Larry has by the time the show started just written him off, and so has Zoe. "It takes a little patience, takes a little time. Then he uses it, the social media, to amplify that awfulness. I have mixed feelings about filming shows, because you lose something. Youll have it. Dear Evan Hansen, the smash-hit, Tony winning 2015 musical, was, depending on your outlook, a poignant depiction of the mental health perils of high school, or an unrelentingly . Spoilers for the show and a trigger warning for discussion of ableism and suicide after the jump. SL: Exactly. The musical opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre in December 2016, after the show's world premiere at the Arena Stage in . Or even knowing phone numbers, but thats another thing. Talk about how you got to Dear Evan Hansen which, by the way, I dont want to call it the Hamilton of this season, but it kind of is. VOX teens experienced a matinee performance of "Dear Evan Hansen" at the Fox Theatre, thanks to the generosity of VOX community partners Most Valuable Kids of Greater Atlanta and Broadway in Atlanta. All of those people are actually real people too that we asked just among our fan group to send us videos of themselves. "Extraordinary. You dont see his head, but you see a sea of faces surrounding him. I always say about Alana, if you ask her, she has a million friends. You cant keep doing that. DEAR EVAN HANSEN YWBF Mug Regular price $20.00 USD Regular price Sale price $20.00 USD Unit price / per . You could see as experienced, everyones got to have the heightened sense of experience all the time. You talked about it at the beginning, but your show has benefited from that too. Thats something that I do think is new to social media. "My name. In 2020, the Oscars stage saw a "swirling cyclone" of Swarovski Crystals thanks to Jason Sherwood, production designer for the 92nd Academy Awards. Michael Grief and I are from another. This article originally appeared on Recode.net. In the wake of the election and people feeling all sorts of feelings and trauma, there was Social media actually did become a refuge for a lot of people, and a place to feel. Im not even worried about it though, seriously, because its not like, uh, its not going to be like that one time you had the perfect chance to introduce yourself to Zoe Murphy at the band concert last year that time when you waited afterwards just to talk to her and tell her how good she was and, like, you were going to pretend to be so casual like you didnt even know her name. SM: The song literally says you are not alone.. - The third letter in "Sincerely, Me". Youre also not trying to do lesson learning. I dont think it was the tech. We give them a heads up. DEAR EVAN HANSEN Stripe Collection Polo . As a producer whos had some successes and a lot of what I call glorious failures SM: My last musical that I lead produced was The Bridges of Madison County.. I think whats interesting about the fake news is clearly, facts dont work to dispel it. SL: Then there are a lot of expressionistic approaches to the internet, which is like fractured images and text. Today in the red chairs are Stacey Mindich and Steven Levenson, the producer and book writer of Dear Evan Hansen. Its a musical about a high school student with social anxiety disorder struggling to connect with people around him, including his crush, Zoe, and her social outcast brother Connor. Not all of them hit. Laura Baronet. . Heres a clip from the show. Some have argued, for example, that the film's message is toxic. Why do you think this resonated? Then the next few days, it changed. With its Broadway debut, "Dear Evan Hansen" took the world by storm, going on to win the 2017 Tony Award for Best Musical. I dont know how old you are, but it was mind-blowing, and I went a dozen times. We werent going to do a very big thing about it right at this moment, but we did that. It was a smart way to talk about hard things. The power ballad that closes act one of Dear Evan Hansen, it marks the moment when Evan, a socially anxious teenager, delivers a heartfelt speech about a friend, Connor, who has recently met with tragedy.Shaking with emotion, Evan recalls a time that Connor helped him, and he . And the father? It's easy to see why they cut it down for length and time and also to make it vague enough that Connor could've written it just as easily as Evan. SM: No, as a matter of fact, we spend a lot of our time trying to get bootleg tapes of it off of YouTube. SL: Yes, absolutely, its just never-ending. Rent was one of those choices, and Angels in America I would say, probably, are two shows that the conversation had to continue after. Fun Fact: Tom queued for . CW: This article references suicide.Please refer to the end of the article for on- and off-campus resources. Perhaps the story of Evan Hansen could fit into that format, but I feel like what we have, the musical Dear Evan Hansen, is just that. Social media now lets you have People put up that video. He is in a total of 11 musical numbers. Thats a very good play, or a delicate flower. SL: Yes, and he looks around as I think many of us do at social media, and sees the world of people who are fluent and who seem to be able to navigate this world of communication that he finds baffling. Evan and Connor both feel like their families don't listen to them. We actually do. In fact, he didnt, but they presumed that Evan was his only friend. SL: There are always people who thought he suffered too much for what he did, so it ultimately comes down to me to some of the Theres a song, Words Fail, that Evan sings. This has been a bad year. Financial contributions from our readers are a critical part of supporting our resource-intensive work and help us keep our journalism free for all. 5 terms. Because today, all you have to do is be yourself. That may be something else I would pay money for, but for me SL: But its different. Above photo: VOX teen reviewer Sydney with her mom Lisa at the April 28, 2019 performance of "Dear Evan Hansen" at Atlanta's Fox Theatre. "Dear Evan Hansen" is a high school musical, but one in which the loneliness and pain of teen life is front and center, and the sense of isolation intensified in today's social media world. SL: I was struck immediately by this whole concept of the voyeurism and exhibitionism of grief, which was really what I think Benj was so interested in. I thought it was going to be an attack on technology, which I dont mind by the way, but it was really smart. I was a journalist first. You can also contribute via, Full transcript: Broadways Dear Evan Hansen Producer Stacey Mindich and book writer Steven Levenson on Recode Decode, This story is part of a group of stories called, 9 questions about the threats to ban TikTok, answered. SL: Yes, and she actually We always try to be careful thats shes never a villain. Its fantastic. Hamilton absolutely is similar, and I also think that there is something in a world where everything is digital. Its music, however, is fairly affecting. Universal. To me, having seen the misery and the depths to which this character falls, I feel by the end that he has paid a terrible price, and he has come out on the other side and realized what he has done. DEAR EVAN HANSEN is "the most vital and important musical of a generation" (Daily Mail, Baz Bamigboye) with "a raw, relevant and exhilarating score" (BBC Radio London, Jonathan Phang) from the songwriters of The Greatest Showman and La La Land.. A timely and timeless new musical about struggling to connect in a hyperconnected world, DEAR EVAN HANSEN is the winner of 3 Olivier Awards . Book writer Steven Levenson on the power of moral tension---In some ways, "You Will Be Found" is just a moving song. Dear Evan Hansen: Directed by Stephen Chbosky. I have been for so many years, and people come up to me and say, Im Evan. SL: Thats a really good question. He is the son of Heidi and Mark Hansen. SL: Yes, and theyve gotten to that point that a lot of parents get to with their troubled child, where your affection for them has begun to even go away or you dont know what to do. There is no thing. I cant wait to see Hello Dolly. I cannot wait to just delve into that beautiful history of a musical, but the new theater that is exciting to me is being created by young people who have something very interesting to say about the way theyre seeing the world. This show is really depicting the way we live in America now, the way we are at our breakfast tables with our families. So feeling like I was telling you earlier that Dave is working on a VR version of Othello. Im thrilled Othellos going to get to people, so Im not adverse to that idea. One of our founding members Tom Stevenson gives his rendition of this modern monologue taken from the hit musical Dear Evan Hansen. That meant that we would have to find some way to communicate the ubiquity of technology as it is in our lives into this story. What do you hope to accomplish, each of you? Thats what I really appreciate is it wasnt an attack. Broadway - July 30, 2017. TikTok isnt really limiting kids time on its app. The idea of getting people, especially younger people. SM: Theyre an important part of the fabric of the whole thing. I think each one really leads the theater world to be a beauty, to do more and to be more honest. This sends Evan on a journey of self-discovery and . SL: Yes, it improves his life, and what becomes impossible for him to stop is how much it improves other peoples lives. We know that because we hear from them. Like its central character, Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel is a bit of a lovable misfit: a rare instance of a hit Broadway musical being adapted for the page. Thats why people get frustrated. What begins as a little white lie becomes a way of comforting this family. Were talking right now to Stacey Mindich and Steve Levenson, the producer and book writer of the hit show on Broadway, Dear Evan Hansen. When we get back, well talk about where theater is going as we move forward in the digital age. This was a day off. Research Playwrights, Librettists, Composers and Lyricists. I love her because shes amazing. You feel like youre there. That is something as Stacey said that is organic and then we cant control. She is a child that has grown up out of the spotlight because her brother took up so much of the oxygen. I guess, every Steven Sondheim movie, you feel bad for everybody in it at I mean musical. The story alone is so icky, so offensive, so profoundly manipulative and fraudulent, that it really never should have gotten a single Tony (or six), much less a film adaptation. SM: Hes not fictional to me anymore, because not only have I lived with him for so long, but I stand in the back of the theater. Kara Swisher: Hi, Im Kara Swisher, executive editor of Recode. Platt is certainly not the first adult to play a teenager onscreen, nor is he the first to look his age while . Exploring grief, mental health struggles and the dangers of social media, the musical was embraced by young people for its honest . Also, don't worry if . Now theyre gone. Suddenly, sharply, nothing. View in iTunes. Its not what I would have done when I was a kid. SL: We always wanted to thread that needle. SL: Larry and Cynthia and Zoe, who is their daughter and Connors sister, are all really And Evan Hansen probably more who really SL: Yes exactly. Were here talking with Stacey Mindich and Steven Levenson, the producer and book writer of Dear Evan Hansen, the hit musical about a high school student with social anxiety disorder and social media problems. Keep going until he sees the sun." 3. will2btenor 6 yr. ago. Getting back to how you do theater, do you feel good about theater now that people ? Summary. One of the most compelling musical films that relates to neurodiversity and social anxiety is Dear Evan Hansen, a 2021 adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical about an isolated high school senior who becomes the motivational force behind a campaign for mental health awareness following the suicide of a fellow student.. It is. Dear Evan Hansen. 22. Whats been interesting to me is there is something about these characters in this world that, especially young people, really want to engage with. They look happy as ever. In the beginning of the ad campaign, those faces were actually stock faces that we bought. SM: Shows have changed so much. For 30 years (as of November 2022) Theater Talk has been appointment listening on WBFO, featuring the insights of theater critic and historian, Anthony Chase, who joins Peter Hall for a five-minute weekly broadcast at 6:45 and 8:45 Friday mornings on 88.7 WBFO with a podcast available on wbfo.org. Thats why I think its a character. The ensemble cast also includes Kaitlyn Dever, Amandla Stenberg, Nik Dodani . I dont know, if you dont live in Silicon Valley, but I, like, oh my God, her. Its fascinating. Riding the wave . It just continues. Whats important now when youre doing that as youre moving to Broadway? SM: The comic Jared Kleinman, who together with Alana are also, theyre our great chorus. SL: Exactly. Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! Everybody is super happy. Im going to keep pushing this because you got to see something in the new VR. You had the memories of when you saw it, when you didnt feel acquainted, but you couldnt revive those feelings. My very last question which I ask everybody, and maybe here well do it a little differently. The unfortunate thing about my kids is both their parents are highly technically literate, and so they cant fool us or anything. Its so funny when youre looking up things, like, What is that, or what is that? I was at a party the other night, and someones like, What do you think happened in his first night? If only we had a device that we can search and find things out, but then I remember dinner parties where you just didnt know. Dear Evan Hansen: The Movie By Stephen Levenson, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul Adapted for film by Jack Gorzynski *note: a / means that the line was cut off by the next line. Theres always an outsider, and theres often a story with a moral tale that has a lie, and then the truth comes out, and the catharsis of that, and the redemption and the forgiveness is what makes audiences feel very good. You may know me as the director of the hit off- off- off-Broadway musical, Dear Mark Zuckerberg, but in my spare time I talk tech, and youre listening to Recode Decode, a podcast about tech and medias key players, big ideas in how theyre changing the world we live in. Because she wants to use it for that, she wants to use it for advantage. JustANumberToYou. Is that true? Then there are those moments where it goes quiet, which is those are generally the emotional moments in the show. When I was talking to Jeffrey Seller, and he said that he thought that online had so much to do, the conversation thats just continued on and on and on about this show. I saw it recently, and its about isolation. SL: Exactly, yes, the paradox of a world where we are incredibly interconnected and yet isolation feels at an unprecedented level. I was expecting that. She has a lot of wisdom from all of those years of pain and family therapy, a jaundiced view of the world. On our stage at the end of Act One, in our Act One finale called You Will Be Found, the projections which basically is the internet goes viral. But its very kind to these people who are struggling to each of them in a different way, which I think is an interesting way to do that. It went from off Broadway, and then you developed it over time, and added to it. Hailey Bieber, Selena Gomez, and the Easter egg-ification of the Hollywood feud, Alex Murdaugh sentenced to two life terms for murdering his wife and son. "Even if you've always been that barely-in-the-background kind of guy, you still matter." - Val Emmich, 'Dear Evan Hansen'. Google Pay. Sorry to tell you, but theyre coming. Steven, youve hit the meme exactly at the right moment, which is Did you think about that before? They want to continue the story, and they want to embellish the story. Its really interactive. SL: Partly because we see the shows so many times, so we get really granular, and its like, Oh, thats not quite right.. Of course he is the ringleader of that and the instigator, but there is some complicity. One of the things that I think is really striking is despite this awful situation, youre very kind to their characters. You dont actively participate in the world, but thats how you comment. Is it this one square mile abroad or whatever? SL: From the beginning, we decided we wanted this to be a contemporary musical. The first performance was in July 2015. Dear Evan Hansen. SM: If you dont, somebody might throw it at you, but you have to. START. Absolutely. And intellig but, just be yourself!! Where do you see theater going? So no hiding. The musical premiered in July 2015 in Washington, DC, debuted on Broadway in 2016, and later won six Tony Awards in . You will never regret having slept on it. I think shes a very important character for some reason, being a mom to SM: Very, very, because she is the one that he comes home to in the end and discovers his, I hope spoiler alerts are okay, but discovers he has something that he didnt realize before. Because today, all you have to do is be yourself. Your director Michael did Rent. I remember when Rent came out. Theyre like, Whats that? Im like, Oh, okay, let me just break it down for you. It was fascinating. SL: Its really a credit to our director, Michael Grief, and our designers Dave Korins, and Peter Nigrini was our video designer. Likewise, the character whose death triggers the events of the musical, Connor Murphy, can be viewed both as a redeemable character or a villain. This has been really fascinating. Im only mentioning VR because its different than film or television. Its certainly done that for me. I think thats what makes it special. Do you not put stuff online? Stacey, why dont you go through the story so people get a sense of what happens. I can tell you, because Im a super old person, it was so great not to know anything or have a phone around. I hope youre okay. What did you use that for?, SM: I had to explain to one of my sons how to actually call someones home, because theyre so used to calling someone directly. Some of them are still about something fantastical, but theyre so much more rooted in reality. New York, NY, Accessibility Statement Terms Privacy |StageAgent 2020. He plays off of Evan. Silence. I first met Stevens colleagues, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and fell in love with their music, and really took them out to lunch one day, came with a whole bunch of ideas from my older-generation head, and within five minutes at the lunch table realized that they would never want to do a musical version of Edith Whartons something -something, but I didnt want to leave without working with them. The musical follows Evan Hansen, a high school senior with social anxiety, "who invents an important role for himself in a tragedy that he did not earn".. Were going to talk about, the musical, that and more, but first lets about a little bit of your background, each of you. SL: Totally, and she also represents someone who doesnt believe in privacy. Thats what was strong about this, was it? When we announce a new block of tickets on sale, we give the fans a two-hour heads up, because as you said, it is hard to sell tickets, and that hurts us in some ways. Final Scene and Finale by Dear Evan Hansen OBC - Karaoke Lyrics on Smule. Evan, in an effort to assuage their terrible grief, finds himself inadvertently claiming that he was his friend. I talk to a lot of entrepreneurs, and I always say, Whats the mistake you made that you could have corrected or that you learned from? I dont mean a learning moment, but its something youd advise people to pay attention to. SM: What about all the angry people whod tweet? Its quite extraordinary. SM: That was never meant to be literal, because we hope the show will live for many years, and these things may become dinosaurs. Certainly, if the show continues to do well, its something well entertain, but right now More likely, youll go out and do shows all over the country? People always say to me, Just take an hour. Talk about the other characters, the mothers, both parents. Dear Evan Hansen, Today's going to be an amazing day and here's why: because because today, . But yet he goes along with it, he goes along with the lie. I think that we do like to say that the story could have happened in ancient Greece. The Oscar-nominated actress will return to a musical role for the first time since 2011's The . We have seen kids leave. Again, it just gives credit to Stevens real knack for credible, authentic characters, because I think that is so true of so many men. Dear Evan Hansen explores the meaning of family, particularly found family, as the teenage characters find new sources of familial support and acceptance. The more interesting thing was to explore, even when its fake, which it is by definition, can it reach something real in us? Shes trying to reach people. jennyjenrose. It was mind-blowing to see Rent at that time. Its the hot ticket on Broadway right now. Today in the red chairs are Stacey Mindich and Steven Levenson, the producer and the book writer of Dear Evan Hansen, which is an amazing musical right now on Broadway. Then last in this section, one of the things thats interesting because you did hit a meme with fake news and things that we think we get so excited about something thats real and genuine. I saw the early versions of it. Youll have it in your eyes.
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