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.. Thats one of the things lets talk about how you weaponize social media. The Oscar-nominated actress will return to a musical role for the first time since 2011's The . 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. Hes told to write these daily affirmations, Dear Evan Hansen, today is going to be a great day, and here is why. That is the beginning of our story, is him writing one of these letters, and its the first day of school. 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. Your director Michael did Rent. I remember when Rent came out. I do believe that were going to look back and think, Oh my goodness, projection, that is so old-fashioned. I think we have no idea yet what the next thing is going to be. He begins to type. Texting is even Theres not a thought that doesnt go down. SL: I actually have in my mind the minimalist version of the show with no projections and no SM: The words, the score, and the actions. Right, and not even then because you start looking up things. Its the hot ticket on Broadway right now. Letter #4: Evan Hansen to Connor Murphy. The idea of getting people, especially younger people. As the performance began, Evan was alone. A battle over freedom of expression at a Concord, N.H., elementary school. But the idea that we need to get Theres no more offline communities, and were not connected offline anymore. I love her because shes amazing. Some of them are very funny, but a lot of them are very earnest and horrible in some way, and thats what you do. SL: Its incredible that that has been happening and happened around the show. 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. Just, uh, you knowbe true to yourself. If you would like to give a public performance of this monologue, please obtain authorization from the appropriate licensor. SL: Its a very weird net of thing where people are really, really responding to that idea of you will be found, which is actually when Evan is saying it in the musical, its not true. It feels like people want Is theater retro? When you were like that before, you didnt see it, and now you see the entire thing and what everybody else is doing. SL: Thats a really good question. Found the image online but it's shown in the book Dear Evan Hansen: Through the Window. But also be confident. Take a phone vacation. Its impossible. Sep 23, 2019 - Explore Abby Gallegos's board "Monologues" on Pinterest. Dear Evan Hansen. SM: What about all the angry people whod tweet? I hope youre okay. Monologues. What happens? They want to continue the story, and they want to embellish the story. 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. Kara Swisher: Hi, Im Kara Swisher, executive editor of Recode. SL: It had been off Broadway last season at Second Stage Theatre, and then it had been in D.C. at the Arena Stage the summer before. Filled with a murderer's row of talented musical actors all chewing into meaty roles while singing their hearts out, Dear Evan Hansen is an ode to sincerity . I hope that the show makes people more present hopefully with the people that they are in the room with. He wanted to write something about his generation. How Trump uses it is fascinating. SL: Never send an email when youre angry has been the best lesson. If youre not that private, thats why you have that many and stuff like that. Just look at the HPV shot. 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. Soon social media posts start popping up all around us some with a warming blue glow and . She is a child that has grown up out of the spotlight because her brother took up so much of the oxygen. 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. You know what I mean? Oh my God. YouTube is the beginning. Can you talk about each of the characters? 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. SL: I think storytelling is going to continue to evolve into different forms and formats. Only, I think, every other person who comes there feels that they can relate to the eight characters on the stage. It feels like the forms are changing but the ideas underneath them are not. Guide written by. 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. Social media used to be free. You are instructed to turn your phone off, and so it is an hour or two hours where you get into a story in a way that you cant anymore when youre watching television or even in a movie theater, because you can be rude like that in the movie theater. We have a contact list from our website of multiple thousands and thousands and thousands of people that most shows dont have. 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. I think it goes back to this authenticity. We shouldnt. I think not just in my family but every family. Silence. How long does it ? SL: Yes, Rent was very big for all three of us. Its a wonderful show. New York, NY, Ages 12-17: Camp Broadway Ensemble @ Carnegie Hall SL: It does feel like there is something, especially with younger people wanting something unique and something you can touch. So you heard TikToks being banned. But the lies are precisely what happened. I wouldnt want to lose that. It was fascinating to have all that going on at once. Connor is his classmate and lives lavishly with his parents and sister. I brought my son, whos 15. If you haven't seen the show, it's the story of how a teen's viral lie winds up revealing large, prickly truths to the people involved in the falsehood. - The second letter in "Sincerely, Me". Easy to talk to. This was a day off. SL: Partly because we see the shows so many times, so we get really granular, and its like, Oh, thats not quite right.. SM: No, as a matter of fact, we spend a lot of our time trying to get bootleg tapes of it off of YouTube. You see it outside the theater, I have stood at a matinee and seen the people leaving get back online to buy more tickets. 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. Whats it like to create theater in this age, in this age of digital? SL: But I will say thats the substitute of our musical. On Broadway. Explain to me how long a show takes to get through? SM: We dont have a current plan to do that. SL: Yes, so people are writing fan fiction, and making fan art. Okay. Nobody in this world wants or rather, everybody wants to believe the story that he tells. Youll have it. Reader support helps us keep our explainers free for all. Zoe is a survivor, really. Is it this one square mile abroad or whatever? I recommend it. You can only reach so many people. By Nils Skudra. Theres just nowhere except the theater where you really do. I was a journalist first. Obviously, your star is well known from Pitch Perfect.. What were you going for to create that feeling of being on the phone or being assaulted by media? DEAR EVAN HANSEN Stripe Collection Polo . You used to pay for social media with your eyeballs. Stacey, why dont you start talking about that idea of how you create an analog experience of just one place and mostly New York City or wherever to reach audiences, especially young ones? You see why this happened to him, and this probably will never happen to him again because he learned the lesson. producer and book writer of the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen.. Is that your name? I think it did happen with Hamilton for sure. Just even the handset was like, Thats interesting. We happen to have the same director also, but Rent paved the way for skipping some in between, and Next to Normal paved the way for Fun Home. Fun Home, I remember the season of Fun Home was just starting, and I was watching it so closely because I knew if they could tell that story, then there was so much hope that we could tell our story. Its not scalable, as they say. 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. They purposely didnt. | Smule Social Singing Karaoke app SM: She is also lonely. "It takes a little patience, takes a little time. SM: Heidi Hansen, yeah, Evan's mom. They have filled our theaters in broad groups. I want to continue to have that experience that I saw A Chorus Line 28 times, not on VR. I talked about mistakes. In 2020, the Oscars stage saw a "swirling cyclone" of Swarovski Crystals thanks to Jason Sherwood, production designer for the 92nd Academy Awards. New York, NY, Accessibility Statement Terms Privacy |StageAgent 2020. And especially with the pain. You could see as experienced, everyones got to have the heightened sense of experience all the time. Then you Snapchat though, that was interesting of course I noticed that, of course its Snapchat. SM: Shows have changed so much. 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. When she admits to being afraid of Connor, the moment is brushed aside as she, too, is duped by Evan's fairy-tale portrait of a loving brother. He is somebody in a world of connections who is completely disconnected and desperate to connect, and also terrifying to connect too. I think thats what makes it special. 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. Thats what was strong about this, was it? Im like, I told you.. - The fourth letter in "Sincerely, Me" and the final letter of the first act. Its also a lot about the impact of the internet on teens and everyone. Ultimately what is going to separate theater from everything else is not the content. Evan Hansen is the main character in the musical Dear Evan Hansen. Steven and the authors and then Michael crafted this story. You see how this kind of thing can actually happen. Its great to talk to you. 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. Ive had people say, Im Heidi, or, My nephew is Evan, My nextdoor neighbor And so he is just one of those absolutely, utterly relatable authentic characters. SM: The comic Jared Kleinman, who together with Alana are also, theyre our great chorus. SM: I think the power of live theater is very potent, especially with a tale like this. We have seen kids leave. Shes trying to reach people. It actually took me a couple of years of watching the show every night to really understand her plight. SL: Yes. Chloe? And then she would be like, No, its Zoe. 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. New York, NY, Linda Ray There is no thing. 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. Laura Baronet. There is nothing else. You dont know theyre happy. Then a week later, two of them divorced. Its not scalable. 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. Now theyre gone. This is a very current show, and also just like you said, a traditional story of loneliness. It is an awful, awful thing he does. She just goes about it perhaps the wrong way. . 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. This has been a bad year. Its just assaultive. SL: It feels like there must be a middle ground, because I do feel like ultimately what is going to separate theater from everything else is not the content. See you, rather. What do you think of what he did, because hes a fictional character but hes not? 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. I always say about Alana, if you ask her, she has a million friends. 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. Getting back to how you do theater, do you feel good about theater now that people ? 24. Other sets by this creator. Book writer Steven Levenson on the power of moral tension---In some ways, "You Will Be Found" is just a moving song. 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. 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. SM: Every show is different. 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. I know Hamilton didnt put things online, like a ton of stuff. You can read some of the highlights from the interview at that link, or listen to it in the audio player below. But also confident; thats super important. We call the social media aspect of the show either the backdrop of our show or the ninth character sometimes. 4. Watching the big lie of Dear Evan Hansen spiral out of control is a tense . I dont know if theyve discovered it yet. Well, its also become a war zone too, I mean, at the same time like a hellscape, like sometimes this was a SL: Yes. SM: It gives him something fun to do too. 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. Letter #5: Connor Murphy to Evan Hansen. SL: From the beginning, we decided we wanted this to be a contemporary musical. 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. Sometimes when you say I love you to your child, it means 10 things. You dont actively participate in the world, but thats how you comment. It was actually really meaningful. Were going to talk about, the musical, that and more, but first lets about a little bit of your background, each of you. Now its all about Trump. People always say to me, Just take an hour. It feels very much like a phone going up. Ben Platt plays the title role, reprising the performance that he originated on stage six years earlier. That problem, its the plot point. The authors adapted the novel from the original Broadway musical of the same name, which they also wrote. The musical opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre in December 2016, after the show's world premiere at the Arena Stage in . SM: Terrible, terrible, but no, were in a tiny theater really, and we very much want people to come and see us. You got involved with this, and what were you thinking, Steven? Jared pretends to be the guy whos got it all figured out, but all of these characters are lost and alone in different ways. Not anymore. Here's hoping I won't be a singing w. You will never regret having slept on it. And intellig but, just be yourself!! Evan, in an effort to assuage their terrible grief, finds himself inadvertently claiming that he was his friend. People are going back to handmade in some ways, and people are really hungering for SL: Exactly. Heres whats actually happening. It went from off Broadway, and then you developed it over time, and added to it. It will be its own thing. 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. He uses it as an art. SM: The song literally says you are not alone.. - The third letter in "Sincerely, Me". Keep going until he sees the sun." 3. will2btenor 6 yr. ago. I see that with even the show This is Us on NBC. SL: There is something about Hamilton being a prime example of, there is something so old-fashioned about it, and yet something that is drawing people to it that I think has to do with seeing actors right there in front of you, seeing them sweat, seeing them spit, feeling like you were having this visceral experience in this room, and theres something quite special and intimate about that. Doesnt this acquaint? Some have argued, for example, that the film's message is toxic. 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. Dear Evan Hansen Monologue. Thats what I really appreciate is it wasnt an attack. Talk about that idea of how you get that, because it does. 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 . You do feel in this thing. Final Scene and Finale by Dear Evan Hansen OBC - Karaoke Lyrics on Smule. SM: Thats angry old men shaking their fists at the internet. She acts a lot older than she is. Riding the wave . 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. Research Playwrights, Librettists, Composers and Lyricists. The next thing I want you to talk about is where theater is going. What do you hope to accomplish, each of you? Its certainly done that for me. As Steven said earlier, they write to us in droves. Thats right, and when she gets it, boy, its interesting. Summary. 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. He finds a family with them. He has a single mom who is trying her best, but not perhaps succeeding. SM: Im still new to social media, so I dont think I can do that. Maybe that does feel retro, but its something that people are missing. With Ben Platt, Julianne Moore, Kaitlyn Dever, Amy Adams. I saw the early versions of it. Fun Fact: Tom queued for . SL: Exactly. Thats the big, like, thats number one: be yourself. Dear Evan Hansen. Evan was the beginning of our story. 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. Stacey and Steven, welcome to Recode Decode. Well, you do the I-wish-you-were-dead-but-not-really thing. It is. Im sorry, theres just no other way to put it. I think that is the beauty of Stevens writing. And the father? 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. Again, it just gives credit to Stevens real knack for credible, authentic characters, because I think that is so true of so many men. It gets the people on an analog. SM: That was never meant to be literal, because we hope the show will live for many years, and these things may become dinosaurs. Because today, all you have to do is be yourself. Treacly and manipulative, "Dear Evan Hansen . I like to insult him, but hes a genius on Twitter. People want to feel something. I was like, Oh, theyre going to do another bad Facebook. By the way, Facebook is bad in many ways, and as youre seeing with a lot of things that are happening right now from the murder to the suicides that are happening, not just that but fake news. Google Pay. He has social anxiety, which shapes his personality throughout the musical. Where else do you have to shut it off? But once she gets on the blog, she blossoms. They have a son, Connor, who has been trouble for a very long time. 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. Theyre all by the time we meet them at the beginning of the show, they have been through hell already. Dear Evan Hansen is a novel published in 2018. SL: Yes, and she actually We always try to be careful thats shes never a villain. Social media now lets you have People put up that video. 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? SM: Theyre an important part of the fabric of the whole thing. JustANumberToYou. I dont think it was the tech. Is that true? But then they were still sweatyand just, uh, very warm as well. I think whats interesting about the fake news is clearly, facts dont work to dispel it. Universal. Its difficult to do because Theres always like an Uber joke or a Twitter joke, but thats it. SM: I have to tell you that I literally went on Instagram to post about a month ago, and I was getting 21 likes here there basically from people who know me really well, and then one day, Laura Dreyfuss whos in our show liked one of my pictures, and I understood everything. Everyones happy on Instagram, and everything is All food is delicious. You can find more episodes of Recode Decode anywhere you listen to a podcast. Youll receive a black mirror, where youre going to have that. 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. Dear Evan Hansen is a musical with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and a book by Steven Levenson. Evan is in high school and suffers from anxiety. Where else do you actually have to put your phone away? Im only mentioning VR because its different than film or television. If you have the good fortune to become successful, you do become something more, but the essence of it is sitting in that theater. Likewise, the character whose death triggers the events of the musical, Connor Murphy, can be viewed both as a redeemable character or a villain. 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. If you haven't seen it, let me attempt to briefly summarize the show's somewhat unbelievable plot. Thats all I mean. He is the son of Heidi and Mark Hansen. September 10, 2021. Right, and theyre all telling each other stories that arent true, which I think is fascinating. The teens are doing revenge porn like Evan. Michael Grief and I are from another. Broadway - July 30, 2017. Section 230, the internet law the Supreme Court could change, explained. At the behest of his therapist, Evan, an anxiety-ridden 17-year-old high schooler, writes a pop-psychology pep talk in the form of a . The new single "Found/Tonight," arranged by Alex . It was written by Val Emmich, Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul. SL: Exactly, yes, the paradox of a world where we are incredibly interconnected and yet isolation feels at an unprecedented level. Are you private? I can tell you, because Im a super old person, it was so great not to know anything or have a phone around. Whats happened is theres dozens of shows. Its about a high school student with a social anxiety disorder and a problem with the internet. I dont know how old you are, but it was mind-blowing, and I went a dozen times. On that stage, and you also used it in your own marketing, you had Twitter, Facebook, what else? with monologues . An interesting thing is he started with Rent in a lot of ways. "My name. 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. It is a duet sung by Connor's father and Evan, titled "To Break in A Glove." Though it is literally talking about the correct way to break in a baseball glove, it can also be talking about . Its got to be something else. Thats all there is. You dont see his head, but you see a sea of faces surrounding him. SL: Then there are a lot of expressionistic approaches to the internet, which is like fractured images and text. It is the need to leave the show, and call. We havent really made a big deal about it right now, but our key art shows Evans torso with his arm in the cast. 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. The 13 most cringeworthy moments in 'Dear Evan Hansen' from the lack of chemistry between Evan and Zoe to the odd portrayal of mental health. At its core, Dear Evan Hansen is about the increasing temptations, and heartbreaking costs, of self-deception. They find their son through him, and then this story snowballs from there. 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. Today is going to be a amazing day and here's why. Yeah, absolutely. DEAR EVAN HANSEN, the winner of six 2017 Tony Awards including Best Musical and the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. 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. When I was younger, I was like, Oh, Ill just put this book on my physical book, like, What?. It was that and Angels in America were very big deals. Stephen Chbosky's adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen, based on the Broadway show of the same name, features a beautiful soundtrack.The 2021 movie cut several songs from the Broadway show and added a few new ones, but overall, the musical's tone is not affected by these changes.
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