Then he uses it, the social media, to amplify that awfulness. On Broadway. The unfortunate thing about my kids is both their parents are highly technically literate, and so they cant fool us or anything. Dear Evan Hansen explores the meaning of family, particularly found family, as the teenage characters find new sources of familial support and acceptance. The gauzy white glow of the screen illuminates the face of Evan Hansen, sitting at a desk with a hard cast on. Nobody in this world wants or rather, everybody wants to believe the story that he tells. Its a musical about a high school student with social anxiety disorder and social media problems. 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. As Steven said earlier, they write to us in droves. But would you have plans to do that, to have a digital version of it after? Everybody is super happy. This is a very current show, and also just like you said, a traditional story of loneliness. I think she is an incredible depiction of contemporary motherhood, whether youre a single mom or not, busy, under pressure, trying hard, absolutely love your child, but in the daily rush of things doesnt always get everything right. They put new pictures, theres all these things. I dont think it was the tech. Fun Fact: Tom queued for . Benj was astounded that basically his whole class identified with it, wrote their college essays about it. Talk about the other characters, the mothers, both parents. Social media now lets you have People put up that video. Hes making up a story, but its a story that actually becomes true for him and for all of these people, so its like there are so many weird layers, and then you start to feel a little dizzy. Youll have it. It will be its own thing. And intellig but, just be yourself!! Thats the surface story. SL: He is Evans family friend in quotes, which according to Jared means theyre not really friends. I think thats how the world feels to someone like Evan. Reader support helps us keep our explainers free for all. Evan and Connor both feel like their families don't listen to them. Dear Evan Hansen is a novel published in 2018. Right now, I was just invited to a showing in San Francisco where we will be wearing VR headsets during the show, and its going to be SM: Thats the Encounter Within Broadway. I dont know, if you dont live in Silicon Valley, but I, like, oh my God, her. Explain to me how long a show takes to get through? He goes back to school. You go to 10,000 rather at once, and its people sitting in the theater, and then 10,000 others. Weve also provided a lightly edited complete transcript of their conversation. We havent really made a big deal about it right now, but our key art shows Evans torso with his arm in the cast. Some of them are very funny, but a lot of them are very earnest and horrible in some way, and thats what you do. Anyone familiar with Broadway in the last five years will have heard of "Dear Evan Hansen," the pop-musical sensation that swept the Tony Awards in 2017. If you like this, be sure to subscribe to Recode Decode on Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, TuneIn or Stitcher. YouTube is the beginning. Ben Platt plays the title role, reprising the performance that he originated on stage six years earlier. She has a very bitter sense of humor. SL: Even though the show isnt explicitly this, it feels like its from Evans point of view, I think, in a lot of ways. SM: You found out on Monday morning at the locker, but you didnt in real time experience that live-action pain. Who would find that most difficult? Evan was who we eventually created. He has just done incredible work, and its so exhaustive and so detailed. It was that and Angels in America were very big deals. Whats important now when youre doing that as youre moving to Broadway? CPAC used to be a barometer. Jared is often the voice of the audience, pointing out what were thinking, so he serves a really interesting and useful purpose. This is in the song "Sincerely, Me". Scene 1: We start on a black screen. I was like, Aww.. Please consider making a one-time contribution to Vox today. Benj and Justin and I were just talking recently about how when we were in high school, we assumed that everybody was having more fun than we were, but now if youre a high school student, you have proof every day that everybody is happier than you are. SL: No. We accept credit card, Apple Pay, and Where do you see theater going? I guess it shows the way people are interacting with culture today. Absolutely. He is in a total of 11 musical numbers. 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. We shouldnt. Section 230, the internet law the Supreme Court could change, explained. Teens can still click right on through the new screen time limit. What do you think of things like that? SM: Terrible, terrible, but no, were in a tiny theater really, and we very much want people to come and see us. It feels very much like a phone going up. To get to the point, do you feel like when I say retro, Im talking about the ideas? SL: Yes. It didn't make it into the show, it's the note that Evan was originally gonna write to himself. She has a lot of wisdom from all of those years of pain and family therapy, a jaundiced view of the world. SL: Sarah Ruhl, the playwright, had a play called Dead Mans Cell Phone, where she had a line where she said, The only two places that are safe from cellphones now are theaters and churches.. I mean, of course its the heart of Any show with heart does resonate, and obviously, it becomes a phenomenon. Its the hardest ticket to get right now. It was interesting because the schools are trying to struggle with these things too once things become apparent. 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 . We had bands of teenagers come in the beginning who loved Ben Platt, our star, from the Pitch Perfect movies, but they want to come back with their parents, and talk to their parents afterward. 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. 5 terms. Then the next few days, it changed. Dear Evan Hansen is a musical with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and a book by Steven Levenson. Over the last several years, people have grown a little tired of that I think, and theres a real hunger for art thats sincere and that is heart-filled. Okay. 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? Also, don't worry if . 3. You didnt have the answer, which was, I was like, Remember when you didnt have the answer, and you just argue, you get drunk, and that was it? That was the entire thing. You feel like youre there. Just weaponize. And interesting. But I think whats interesting is the fresh trends of whats happening now, because eight years ago, Facebook was not as big as it is [now]. SL: Yes, and she actually We always try to be careful thats shes never a villain. Can you talk about each of the characters? There is nothing else. You had the memories of when you saw it, when you didnt feel acquainted, but you couldnt revive those feelings. So you heard TikToks being banned. It's a testament to the songwriting prowess of La La Land duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul that Dear Evan Hansen has gotten anywhere. He has a cast from falling from a tree, and his mother urges him to get people to sign it as a way of making friends. Terms in this set (21) Dear Evan Hansen, Today is going to be a amazing day and here's why. 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. 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. Someone whos not a parent might look at him and say, He hasnt paid enough, but as a parent, I look at him and think especially because of the Words Fail, he has been absolutely tortured. Whereas if you adapt a musical into a film, or adapt it into a TV series or a VR, then it becomes that. Technology is the oxygen of the world now. September 10, 2021. SM: Every show is different. Other sets by this creator. He has social anxiety, which shapes his personality throughout the musical. 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. . So, I dont even know why Im bringing it up because its not going to happen because itsbut, like, all you have to do is just be yourself!! When I first heard the song Anybody Have a Map? which was our third or fourth opening number to the show. Thats not going to work. CW: This article references suicide.Please refer to the end of the article for on- and off-campus resources. SL: Thats a really good question. Directed by Stephen Chbosky, this powerful film . Letter #4: Evan Hansen to Connor Murphy. We give them a heads up. Zoe is a survivor, really. Final Scene and Finale by Dear Evan Hansen OBC - Karaoke Lyrics on Smule. See you, rather. Everything has done that. producer and book writer of the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen.. I was just talking to him about the phenomenon of Hamilton and what its like, and as he pointed out, Hamilton ultimately is just the show thats going to happen at 8pm tonight. 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. A speech Evan writes about Connor then goes viral. Evan was the beginning of our story. They dont ever have to say to the mother, Hi, its Danny. Available on Cinemax, Prime Video, iTunes, HBO Max, Hulu. START. 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. Thats to me, I think, the difficulty they had is they didnt like him. I dont know if theyve discovered it yet. But then they were still sweatyand just, uh, very warm as well. This article originally appeared on Recode.net. You see why this happened to him, and this probably will never happen to him again because he learned the lesson. We werent going to do a very big thing about it right at this moment, but we did that. The new single "Found/Tonight," arranged by Alex . Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing and changing us. I remember going on social media that night, the night of the election, people saying, Get in touch with me if you need somebody to talk to. It was actually genuine. SL: It is, but that idea that these shows, all they are is the next performance. That is cool. I look at Rent being really a grandfather to Dear Evan Hansen happening. Because today, all you have to do is be yourself. It must be seen to be believed." ADAM FELDMAN, TIME OUT NEW YORK. She just goes about it perhaps the wrong way. Now theyre gone. 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. Evan attempts to find the acceptance and love he has been lacking in his life. We want some cause for what theyre learning, the things. Can you talk about that idea of do you think he pays enough for what hes done, or does he have to pay? You could see as experienced, everyones got to have the heightened sense of experience all the time. Thats a very good play, or a delicate flower. He'll hold on and he'll keep going. Its an interesting question, because throughout the preview process and throughout the out of town production in off Broadway, there were always a certain number of people whove thought he didnt suffer enough for what he did. It went from off Broadway, and then you developed it over time, and added to it. Dear Evan Hansen takes on challenging subjectsdeath, grief, class, mental illness, social media, social anxietywith unapologetic trust in the power of contemporary pop music to tell complex stories onstage. Just, uh, you knowbe true to yourself. It was written by Val Emmich, Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul. I can tell you, because Im a super old person, it was so great not to know anything or have a phone around. It was mind-blowing to see Rent at that time. Whats happened is theres dozens of shows. Of course he is the ringleader of that and the instigator, but there is some complicity. The musical opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre in December 2016, after the show's world premiere at the Arena Stage in . I call it sometimes movies are three-text movies or no-text movies, because Im not going to be able to text until Im done with this movie. Youll have it in your eyes. All right, Ill follow you. 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. You cant keep doing that. Thats right, and when she gets it, boy, its interesting. He uses it as an art. I start Talkbacks now by saying, Were going to keep our Talkback breath, because I know that you want to go home and hug your children, forgive your mother and perhaps download our CD, because that is the universal thing. What do you hope to accomplish, each of you? SL: Its really a credit to our director, Michael Grief, and our designers Dave Korins, and Peter Nigrini was our video designer. This one took a long time because it was not based on a book or a movie, or anything at all except perhaps a moment that Benj Pasek had in high school, except for the fact that Steven Levenson turned that all around. A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never . They were trying to find reasons why he killed himself. I just did an interview with Alison Bechdel. Do you want to take a little plug, Steven? CAST: Ben Platt (Evan Hansen), Laura Dreyfuss (Zoe Murphy), Michael Lee Brown (u/s Connor Murphy), Will Roland (Jared Kleinman), Kristolyn Lloyd (Alana Beck), Michael Park (Larry Murphy), Jennifer Laura Thompson (Cynthia Murphy) NOTES: Act 1 ends after Sincerely, Me. SM: It is, although I must say, to me, Hamilton is a movement, a phenomenon, something that is SM: It is. I recommend it. It turns out to be false, or an advertising or a marketing thing. SM: To me, that feels more like an event than the theater that I grew up on, and it may very well be a very generational thing. Dear Evan Hansen is a musical.The music and lyrics were written by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Steven Levenson wrote a book based on the musical). A lot of musicals recently, theyre not kind. New York, NY, Ages 12-17: Camp Broadway Ensemble @ Carnegie Hall Dear Evan Hansen Monologue. I was looking at the social media on the show. I remember the school saying it wasnt terrible like this, but it wasnt one where she shouldnt have been in the video, and was, and this and that. Cynthia Murphy, who is the other mom, Connor Murphys mom, is equally as relatable, and I think it takes us part of her journey to really come to understand her and her fortitude, because she goes through the grief, the absolute horror, the last thing that any mother or father ever, ever, ever wants to go through, and yet shes so admirable because she keeps finding ways to lift herself up and to keep life going. with monologues . He wanted to write something about his generation. At first, you dont want anything to do with that mother, but then you realize that there are people who are like that walking around our world today, and they have picked themselves up and kept going. They find their son through him, and then this story snowballs from there. Getting back to how you do theater, do you feel good about theater now that people ? I have mixed feelings about filming shows, because you lose something. Steven and the authors and then Michael crafted this story. And the father? But also confident that's important and . Jared pretends to be the guy whos got it all figured out, but all of these characters are lost and alone in different ways. They didnt know that Connor had any friends. Essentially, this other boy, Connor Murphy, ends up through a strange series of circumstances taking the letter from Evan, and later offstage, Connor ends up killing himself, and the only thing that his parents find on his person is this letter to Dear Evan Hansen. Were on Apple Podcast, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Stitcher, SoundCloud and more, or just visit recode.net/podcasts for more. SM: The comic Jared Kleinman, who together with Alana are also, theyre our great chorus. Join StageAgent today and unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. The more interesting thing was to explore, even when its fake, which it is by definition, can it reach something real in us? Its about a high school student with a social anxiety disorder and a problem with the internet. Sep 23, 2019 - Explore Abby Gallegos's board "Monologues" on Pinterest. Dear Evan Hansen has struck a chord with audiences and critics everywhere, including The Washington Post who says Dear Evan Hansen is, "Theatrical magic.One of the most remarkable shows in musical theatre history." The New York Times calls it "a breathtaking knockout of a musical."And NBC Nightly News declares the musical, "an anthem resonating on Broadway and beyond."
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