And interesting. Can you talk about each of the characters? Why do you think this resonated? SL: Absolutely. How long does it ? Then the next few days, it changed. I think theater is going forward in the kinds of stories we can tell. But also confident; thats super important. Exploring grief, mental health struggles and the dangers of social media, the musical was embraced by young people for its honest . Some of them are still about something fantastical, but theyre so much more rooted in reality. Its really interactive. I think thats what makes it special. In 2020, the Oscars stage saw a "swirling cyclone" of Swarovski Crystals thanks to Jason Sherwood, production designer for the 92nd Academy Awards. Just, uh, you knowbe true to yourself. Connor is his classmate and lives lavishly with his parents and sister. I dont believe Michael Grief is on social media at all, and I only joined the world of social media, and Im now slightly addicted not in posting but in SM: I love Instagram, but I only joined it because of this show, because I literally had them telling me every day, You wont understand your own children and the way they live and the way theyre liked if you dont participate in some way. This conversation has been going on, and my notes on the show sometimes have questioned this backdrop. We didnt have to buy the rights to a book to make this. Broadway - August 3, 2017. SM: Shows have changed so much. I hope its a conversation starter about so many issues, but mostly I hope its a catharsis for the people who come to see it, because its a catharsis for me every night. I was looking at the social media on the show. Yes, she is. Benj was astounded that basically his whole class identified with it, wrote their college essays about it. 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. But they want to continue the relationship. It was really just meant to surrealistically portray the way we are all brushed. We found that we gathered fans very, very quickly, and they stayed with us, and so one of our approaches in, not really selling tickets, but in keeping our own community alive was really to talk directly to the fans, to always give them something first, because we believe that they are part of the reason why we were able to go from Arena to Second Stage, and Second Stage to Broadway. Theres just nowhere except the theater where you really do. Obviously, your star is well known from Pitch Perfect.. Well, I had to explain the telephone to one of my kids recently, like a payphone because they saw a payphone. 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. "Extraordinary. SM: The song literally says you are not alone.. We accept credit card, Apple Pay, and Monologues. Right, and not even then because you start looking up things. Okay. SL: Exactly. Its difficult to do because Theres always like an Uber joke or a Twitter joke, but thats it. You can find more episodes of Recode Decode anywhere you listen to a podcast. Financial contributions from our readers are a critical part of supporting our resource-intensive work and help us keep our journalism free for all. SL: Even though the show isnt explicitly this, it feels like its from Evans point of view, I think, in a lot of ways. On his journey to be found, he discovers the consequences of risking it all for the chance to . 4. I think thats how the world feels to someone like Evan. When I first heard the song Anybody Have a Map? which was our third or fourth opening number to the show. I started producing about 12 years ago, and had a real passion to find young authors, and pair them with some of the veteran directors of our industry. Its quite enormous in terms of how it gets known. It was like the most thrilling moment of my social media life that somebody I thought was cool and young liked my picture, so it works. SL: Never send an email when youre angry has been the best lesson. with monologues . I do feel like people are hungering for something that is ephemeral and something thats just here and now, because everything else is permanent and online. Im in my 50s. Summary. Its music, however, is fairly affecting. I can only tell you the funny story that we all just do things too quickly, and we make silly mistakes all the time. Found the image online but it's shown in the book Dear Evan Hansen: Through the Window. Ultimately what is going to separate theater from everything else is not the content. I asked them what they wanted to do, and Benj Pasek told me a story that was just the germ of what happened in Dear Evan Hansen, but it was something that happened in his high school life where a senior, they were all in the senior class, and a senior passed away from drugs. 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. SL: Partly because we see the shows so many times, so we get really granular, and its like, Oh, thats not quite right.. 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. SM: It does start with a 17-year-old boy alone in his bedroom scrolling through social media. I dont have time, but I will catch you later. I think Steven in less words than more actually captures that in Heidi. That was me in high school. Maybe they didnt tell the lie. Keep going until he sees the sun." 3. will2btenor 6 yr. ago. Giving a speech at Connor's memorial assembly, Evan soon shoots to fame, the Connor Project growing after his speech is put online, many people empathizing with Evan's words. 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. But also confident that's important and . Thats one of the things lets talk about how you weaponize social media. Broadway - July 30, 2017. Rent was one of those choices, and Angels in America I would say, probably, are two shows that the conversation had to continue after. Then we brought in the great director, Michael Grief, whos done Rent and Next to Normal. He also brought in his own interpretations. On the advice of his therapist, he pens supportive letters to himself: "Dear Evan Hansen, Today is going to be an amazing day, and here's why. 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. Why dont we start with you, Stacey? As Steven said earlier, they write to us in droves. SM: But for us, what serves our show so well is the intimacy of those 984 plus 16 standing room possibilities. It was fascinating to have all that going on at once. Zoe is a survivor, really. Its not what I would have done when I was a kid. They purposely didnt. Do you know what I mean, like thats what we got. Research Playwrights, Librettists, Composers and Lyricists. He plays off of Evan. Today is going to be a good day, and here's why; because today, no matter what else you are you. Yeah, but also, it is the agony of social media, and now you can see it. SM: What about all the angry people whod tweet? He is counseled by his therapist in order to build himself up to write a letter to himself, that self-help letter, Dear Evan Hansen. Stacey, why dont you go through the story so people get a sense of what happens. I think its going to be that experience could exist, but it wont be the same. You dont see his head, but you see a sea of faces surrounding him. You had the memories of when you saw it, when you didnt feel acquainted, but you couldnt revive those feelings. Right. Im going to keep pushing this because you got to see something in the new VR. So you heard TikToks being banned. It was actually really meaningful. Well, you do the I-wish-you-were-dead-but-not-really thing. I said Zoe. And youd be like, Oh, see I thought you said Chloe because Im just Im very busy withuh, other stuff right now. But you didnt even end up saying anything to her anyway because you were scared your hands were sweatywhich, they werent, really. He has social anxiety, which shapes his personality throughout the musical. As the performance began, Evan was alone. You know what I mean? SL: Yes. SL: It feels like what all those fake news things are hitting on is a true emotion that people are feeling. SL: No. Maybe they didnt have the tragic events, but were all a little bit like that. . I think what took so long from launch to the Music Box Theatre was actually eight years but it was crafting of what we call our underlying rights. Each of you take one and talk about what they mean and what youre trying to do. Do see it, and see that beneath the faade, were all searching for the same things. We have friends calling friends. Suddenly, sharply, nothing. It is. With Ben Platt, Julianne Moore, Kaitlyn Dever, Amy Adams. Music sales now go through individual songs, although, I think, probably cast like theater sale whole much better. SM: Its actually so much simpler then that. jennyjenrose. Seeking 2 Actor Team for Spring You see how this kind of thing can actually happen. She is surrounded by friends, but really, she doesnt have many. 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. SL: Everyone in the show is doing things for the right reason. 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. Good to know. - The third letter in "Sincerely, Me". SM: Heidi Hansen, yeah, Evan's mom. We give them a heads up. By Nils Skudra. We werent going to do a very big thing about it right at this moment, but we did that. This has been a bad year. You could see as experienced, everyones got to have the heightened sense of experience all the time. When we started talking about this idea and trying to abstract it and think about what was at the heart of it, we started to think about the idea of connection immediately, that all of this had to do with the desire and the need and the hunger to connect. He finds a family with them. It feels like somewhere, thats the solution to the fake news is to reach people in their core. Dear Evan Hansen: Directed by Stephen Chbosky. Dear Evan Hansen, Today's going to be an amazing day and here's why: because because today, . What begins as a little white lie becomes a way of comforting this family. This was a day off. It should go everywhere, because I think its real. SM: And yet the final scene of our show set in an apple orchard that was planted in Connors honor, and not exactly in a straight-line way, but yet as Evan says at the end of the show, He was memorialized, and there is this moment to step out into the sun. Well, its also become a war zone too, I mean, at the same time like a hellscape, like sometimes this was a SL: Yes. Laura Baronet. I think that is the beauty of Stevens writing. 22. With its Broadway debut, "Dear Evan Hansen" took the world by storm, going on to win the 2017 Tony Award for Best Musical. Take a phone vacation. Its impossible. He'll hold on and he'll keep going. Hashtag youre not alone. In fact, he didnt, but they presumed that Evan was his only friend. Its certainly done that for me. Stream songs including "Waving Through A Window (From the "Dear Evan Hansen" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)", "For Forever (From The "Dear Evan Hansen" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)" and more. SL: Evan, if you track his journey, if you look at the granular level, the first time that the parents come to Evan and say, This letter, we found this letter with our son, the first thing he says is he didnt write it. SL: They must be cyclical, but it feels like there are a few things going on, but one of them being the pervasive irony and sarcasm, for lack of a better word. September 21, 2021. 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. SL: Yes. He captured something that maybe it even did, maybe it does in smaller ways less musically accentuated, but it is something that is very believable in America right now. Evan is in high school and suffers from anxiety. Put your phone away. Kara Swisher: Hi, Im Kara Swisher, executive editor of Recode. We dont really live in that world anymore. 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 . "It takes a little patience, takes a little time. 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. Ive met Alana a hundred times. I look at Rent being really a grandfather to Dear Evan Hansen happening. It was a smart way to talk about hard things. He has a single mom who is trying her best, but not perhaps succeeding. Letter #4: Evan Hansen to Connor Murphy. SL: It does feel like there is something, especially with younger people wanting something unique and something you can touch. Sometimes when you say I love you to your child, it means 10 things. One of our founding members Tom Stevenson gives his rendition of this modern monologue taken from the hit musical Dear Evan Hansen. Dear Evan Hansen. The school said, Well, we dont want to be punitive. I said, No, we want to be punitive. I think people are hungering to feel a part of a community, and to be sitting in an audience with other people. Evan Hansen is the main character in the musical Dear Evan Hansen. Easy to talk to. You see it outside the theater, I have stood at a matinee and seen the people leaving get back online to buy more tickets. SM: No, as a matter of fact, we spend a lot of our time trying to get bootleg tapes of it off of YouTube. Its also a very traditional show, if you think about it. The only thing I knew about Dear Evan Hansen before this point was that the main character had a broken arm. I think shes a really funny, dark person. They were trying to find reasons why he killed himself. Snowballs, and then social media is the key snowball, or as it amplifies and creates the situation that improves his life, and also makes the horrible situation worse. Its just made me more aware of when Im using technology as a crutch or as a way of avoiding interactions. The national tour of Dear Evan Hansen plays Tuesdays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM, Fridays at 8 PM, Saturdays at 2 PM and 8 PM, and Sundays at 1 PM and 6:30 PM through March 5 at the Eccles Theatre (131 South Main Street, Salt Lake City). Snapchat didnt exist really. I want to finish up on what do you hope where to go, where it happens, because you definitely, youre very current. What happens? Theyre like, Whats that? Im like, Oh, okay, let me just break it down for you. It was fascinating. "Even if you've always been that barely-in-the-background kind of guy, you still matter." - Val Emmich, 'Dear Evan Hansen'. 'Dear Evan Hansen' adaptation is 'a total misfire,' 'one of the worst movie-musicals ever made,' critics say Published Fri, Sep 10 2021 2:05 PM EDT Updated Fri, Sep 10 2021 2:38 PM EDT Sarah . It is a conversation starter. Whereas if you adapt a musical into a film, or adapt it into a TV series or a VR, then it becomes that. A lot of musicals recently, theyre not kind. It is an awful, awful thing he does. He is in a total of 11 musical numbers. | Smule Social Singing Karaoke app 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. They dont ever have to say to the mother, Hi, its Danny. SL: Yes. I thought it was going to be an attack on technology, which I dont mind by the way, but it was really smart. SL: Its really a credit to our director, Michael Grief, and our designers Dave Korins, and Peter Nigrini was our video designer. But the idea that we need to get Theres no more offline communities, and were not connected offline anymore. Likewise, the character whose death triggers the events of the musical, Connor Murphy, can be viewed both as a redeemable character or a villain. View Dear Evan Hansen opening monologue.docx from AA 1Dear Evan Hansen, Today's going to be an amazing day and here's why: because because today, all you have to do is just be yourself. Tickets are $69.50-$229.50. SL: From the beginning, we decided we wanted this to be a contemporary musical. He described the set design to Architectural Digest: "I wanted to create a design that would feel as complex, encompassing, and dimensional as the cultural impact of the films themselves.". 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. 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. Evan Hansen. He is somebody in a world of connections who is completely disconnected and desperate to connect, and also terrifying to connect too. Its quite extraordinary. Dear Evan Hansen poster. She has a very bitter sense of humor. Its a show about life and how we live it. I think for all of us on that dark day that we came to rehearsal, being in the theater where we all have the license to be the people that we are, the little strange quirky Evan-like people that we all are SM: Its a good place for people. Within a couple of months, we found Steven, who had the right voice to create a musical that the three of them really wanted to be as authentic as possible. It will be its own thing. What happens to theater going forward then? Please consider making a one-time contribution to Vox today. Sometimes, people will say, Is it a show about death? I always say, Its absolutely not. The authors adapted the novel from the original Broadway musical of the same name, which they also wrote. 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. A speech Evan writes about Connor then goes viral. They put new pictures, theres all these things. Its not scalable. I do think youre right about books. Weve talked a lot about the show itself, but lets talk about doing theater now. That is something as Stacey said that is organic and then we cant control. Final Scene and Finale by Dear Evan Hansen OBC - Karaoke Lyrics on Smule. We call the social media aspect of the show either the backdrop of our show or the ninth character sometimes. He had another one on Snapchat, which is interesting. We have people from the age Well, we werent able to take people, I think, under the age of 18, but these people are from the age of 18 to the age of 80, from all over the country and actually all over the world, and theyre in our show. 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. Dear Evan Hansen is a novel published in 2018. The unfortunate thing about my kids is both their parents are highly technically literate, and so they cant fool us or anything. I hope more people will listen to this and come. Support our mission, and make a gift today. Then once she gets the letters, she uses them like shes almost a journalist, like, I got the memo, or something like that. Nobody in this world wants or rather, everybody wants to believe the story that he tells. He is the son of Heidi and Mark Hansen. The first performance was in July 2015. But yet he goes along with it, he goes along with the lie. 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. When I was younger, I was like, Oh, Ill just put this book on my physical book, like, What?. I hope youre okay. SM: Were struggling and learning. FLIP HTML5 is a Interactive html5 digital publishing platform that makes it easy to create interactive digital publications, including magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. The Broadway hit-turned-film Dear Evan Hansen ' s ending created some controversy and a flurry of questions. This is a very current show, and also just like you said, a traditional story of loneliness. What were you going for to create that feeling of being on the phone or being assaulted by media? Terms in this set (21) Dear Evan Hansen, Today is going to be a amazing day and here's why. DEAR EVAN HANSEN Stripe Collection Navy Pocket Tee Regular price $30.00 USD Regular price $40.00 USD Sale price $30.00 USD Unit price / per . Michael Grief and I are from another. 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. SM: If you dont, somebody might throw it at you, but you have to. You used to pay for social media with your eyeballs. Section 230, the internet law the Supreme Court could change, explained. SM: Sort of, but the thing that youd try so hard to do when youre marketing a show is create a way for word of mouth to happen. Yeah, absolutely. Yes, he did a horrible thing, but it has become so apparent for me in knowing the script by heart now that SM: But its all been deeply pleasurable. SM: That was never meant to be literal, because we hope the show will live for many years, and these things may become dinosaurs. "My name. Then your other extra characters are also very interesting, like the girl who SL: Alana, who is our voice of social media in a lot of ways. Now theyre gone. EVAN. SM: But its a great symbol of the need for community because she uses knowingly, unknowingly, the experience of Connors death and Evans decision to create the Connor Project, to create a community and a role and a life for herself. I hope it goes Is it coming to San Francisco? His life is compounded by the fact that he has social anxiety, although I think we have found that people look at him and bring their own problems to him. This election, fake news everywhere kind of thing, and now the president just uses it as a catch phrase. Then also how connection isnt connecting. SL: Exactly. SM: Waving Through a Window is the telephone song from Bye Bye Birdie, without a doubt. 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. You will never regret having slept on it. Are you private? The musical premiered in July 2015 in Washington, DC, debuted on Broadway in 2016, and later won six Tony Awards in . I feel like its hard. 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. Whats it like to create theater in this age, in this age of digital? He has just done incredible work, and its so exhaustive and so detailed. Where else do you actually have to put your phone away? Dear Evan Hansen tells the story of a high school student suffering from extreme social anxiety whose desperate desire for acceptance leads him into a web of lies following the tragic death of a . Thats to me, I think, the difficulty they had is they didnt like him. Getting back to how you do theater, do you feel good about theater now that people ? Not all of them hit. 5 terms. I always say about Alana, if you ask her, she has a million friends. There is no thing. All monologues are property and copyright of their owners. You can read some of the highlights from the interview at that link, or listen to it in the audio player below. Then at the same time, when you have this going, this fake news and where it leads to, how do we get back to community? 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]. SM: I think if we want people to relate to the show, then the idea really is that I always said, If every mother in that audience doesnt ultimately want to hug Evan, then were not doing the right thing. We want everyone to essentially be kind and feel a warmth about our show. The plot of Dear Evan Hansen begins with a letter, unsurprisingly given the title. Released by Atlantic Records in 2017 containing music from Dear Evan Hansen (2016). After one of these missives is stolen by a classmate who subsequently takes his own life, the deceased's parents believe it to be a genuine . Its just assaultive. That's the big, like, that's number one: be yourself. Whats important now when youre doing that as youre moving to Broadway? Book sales are going up, and Kindle and eBooks are really being bought by middle-aged people. SL: Yet, watching it now, you dont feel like its old-fashioned, or you feel like the technology is old-fashioned but the emotions are real and the story, you can follow. Were on Apple Podcast, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Stitcher, SoundCloud and more, or just visit recode.net/podcasts for more. Teens can still click right on through the new screen time limit. Weve also provided a lightly edited complete transcript of their conversation.
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