I want to continue to have that experience that I saw A Chorus Line 28 times, not on VR. 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. Michael Grief and I are from another. When youre trying to get to what Evan does, it is an awful thing he does. This sends Evan on a journey of self-discovery and . 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 long does it ? Technology is the oxygen of the world now. SL: No, Alana is She is desperate to keep a bright smile on and to show everybody how great she is. 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. I do hope and it seems to occasionally work this way that people are leaving the theater, and at least being more mindful I think of the way that they use technology. 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. 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 . What I found interesting maybe you want to talk about is I dont want to get to the idea of where shows are too like whats at the heart of all these shows and these connections is that you dont insult technology. Thats something that I do think is new to social media. It is a conversation starter. Explain to me how long a show takes to get through? 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. 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. Its just assaultive. Final Scene and Finale by Dear Evan Hansen OBC - Karaoke Lyrics on Smule. 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. So no hiding. Riding the wave . He has just done incredible work, and its so exhaustive and so detailed. September 21, 2021. 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. Weve also provided a lightly edited complete transcript of their conversation. That is something as Stacey said that is organic and then we cant control. I love her because shes amazing. 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. 23. YouTube seems to be. SL: Everyone in the show is doing things for the right reason. You see how this kind of thing can actually happen. Were sounding old. 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. The musical opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre in December 2016, after the show's world premiere at the Arena Stage in . The new single "Found/Tonight," arranged by Alex . We didnt have to buy the rights to a book to make this. 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 was expecting that. Also, dont worry if your hands are going to get sweaty for no reason and you cant make it stop no matter what you do because no, theyre not going to get sweaty. SL: It feels like what all those fake news things are hitting on is a true emotion that people are feeling. Thats not going to work. There is feeling like Its disturbing how real it feels. Were going to talk about, the musical, that and more, but first lets about a little bit of your background, each of you. Thats to me, I think, the difficulty they had is they didnt like him. Fun Fact: Tom queued for . Connor is his classmate and lives lavishly with his parents and sister. They dont ever have to say to the mother, Hi, its Danny. SM: But for us, what serves our show so well is the intimacy of those 984 plus 16 standing room possibilities. SM: Thats angry old men shaking their fists at the internet. People want to feel something. Its difficult to do because Theres always like an Uber joke or a Twitter joke, but thats it. Its a beautiful song that Benj and Justin have written. SM: Its actually so much simpler then that. You can only reach so many people. Heres whats actually happening. Please consider making a one-time contribution to Vox today. September 10, 2021. It was really just meant to surrealistically portray the way we are all brushed. 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. But the idea that we need to get Theres no more offline communities, and were not connected offline anymore. I hope youre okay. It goes wild with people holding up signs that say, #youwillbefound, supporting the Connor Project and Evan, and the idea that this boy made a friend and all of that. 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. That was really where we began, was with that phenomenon, and I think what the three of us all found interesting was instead of parodying that or satirizing that, trying to look at what is underneath that impulse, and why do people feel the need to connect in that way, whats propelling that on a human level. Sometimes when you say I love you to your child, it means 10 things. Phone numbers were never meant to protect or identify us, but we use them to do that all the time. SNAP boosts kept millions out of poverty during Covid. I talked about mistakes. Today is going to be a amazing day and here's why. You dont actively participate in the world, but thats how you comment. You dont know theyre happy. Then a week later, two of them divorced. Is it this one square mile abroad or whatever? Do you imagine a future where that doesnt have to be what we do, like tape it and make it? The breathtaking Broadway phenomenon becomes a soaring cinematic event as Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award winner Ben Platt reprises his role as an anxious, isolated high schooler aching for understanding and belonging amid the chaos and cruelty of the . Whats it like to create theater in this age, in this age of digital? He is the son of Heidi and Mark Hansen. 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. Jared is also our truth teller. It feels like people want Is theater retro? Its like somebody without skin. Thats all there is. Nobody in this world wants or rather, everybody wants to believe the story that he tells. I think it did happen with Hamilton for sure. Despite its Broadway credentials, "Dear Evan Hansen" hits screens faced with an inherent tension: Can its songs and cast, led by Ben Platt reprising his Tony-winning role, overcome the . But they want to continue the relationship. SL: It is, but that idea that these shows, all they are is the next performance. Dear, Evan Hansen. Where else do you have to shut it off? Spoilers for the show and a trigger warning for discussion of ableism and suicide after the jump. Do you know what I mean, like thats what we got. That process has taken us a long time. Its the experience, sitting there in that theater in that one place with that one performance. SM: Im still new to social media, so I dont think I can do that. 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. She has a lot of wisdom from all of those years of pain and family therapy, a jaundiced view of the world. It feels like the forms are changing but the ideas underneath them are not. Approachable. People are going back to handmade in some ways, and people are really hungering for SL: Exactly. She is surrounded by friends, but really, she doesnt have many. People bring whatever they have themselves or they know about to him, but hes lonely and isolated. Then he uses it, the social media, to amplify that awfulness. DEAR EVAN HANSEN, the winner of six 2017 Tony Awards including Best Musical and the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Thats what was strong about this, was it? But also confident; thats super important. It was written by Val Emmich, Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul. What begins as a little white lie becomes a way of comforting this family. Dear Evan Hansen is a novel published in 2018. Stacey and Steven, welcome to Recode Decode. SM: Think about this, Steven, if they do a revival of this show in 25 years, they could do it in a retro way with no projections. SM: I just think its an incredible conversation starter, and when you start talking about these things, all kinds of good can come from it, not just in terms of being mindful, and maybe youre too disconnected from the world by being on your phones, but also, we have issue of loneliness, and people bring what theyre going through to the show, so mental illness, suicide prevention. Its music, however, is fairly affecting. 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. The Broadway hit-turned-film Dear Evan Hansen ' s ending created some controversy and a flurry of questions. I do think, though, that the weird thing about social media is weve all become high schoolers now. This election, fake news everywhere kind of thing, and now the president just uses it as a catch phrase. Of course he is the ringleader of that and the instigator, but there is some complicity. Dear Evan Hansen. For more information visit saltlakecity.broadway.com. CW: This article references suicide.Please refer to the end of the article for on- and off-campus resources. 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 . I guess, every Steven Sondheim movie, you feel bad for everybody in it at I mean musical. And intellig but, just be yourself!! Dear Evan Hansen: Directed by Stephen Chbosky. So you heard TikToks being banned. 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? SM: We dont have a current plan to do that. 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. 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. Whereas if you adapt a musical into a film, or adapt it into a TV series or a VR, then it becomes that. I look at Rent being really a grandfather to Dear Evan Hansen happening. SM: The whole business of theater is about putting butts in seats. You got involved with this, and what were you thinking, Steven? This was a day off. We accept credit card, Apple Pay, and You can read some of the highlights from the interview at that link, or listen to it in the audio player below. Letter #5: Connor Murphy to Evan Hansen. Why dont we start with you, Stacey? 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. I guess it shows the way people are interacting with culture today. 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. Then there are those moments where it goes quiet, which is those are generally the emotional moments in the show. That is cool. 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). Some have argued, for example, that the film's message is toxic. 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. DEAR EVAN HANSEN Stripe Collection Polo . 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. That was me in high school. Maybe they didnt tell the lie. The authors adapted the novel from the original Broadway musical of the same name, which they also wrote. 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. Benj was astounded that basically his whole class identified with it, wrote their college essays about it. Because she wants to use it for that, she wants to use it for advantage. He uses it as an art. Well, something, and thats your weapon. 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. See you, rather. Do see it, and see that beneath the faade, were all searching for the same things. It becomes a way of bringing people together, of making everyone feel less alone, and yet its all premised on this lie. 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. On his journey to be found, he discovers the consequences of risking it all for the chance to . I hope that the show makes people more present hopefully with the people that they are in the room with. Your show, which you cant get tickets to or someone in Kansas cant see it, some lonely teenager, its a very different thing that you could instead of reaching How many people fit in your theater every night? He has social anxiety, which shapes his personality throughout the musical. SL: Exactly, yes, the paradox of a world where we are incredibly interconnected and yet isolation feels at an unprecedented level. Letter #6: Evan Hansen. 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. Rent was one of those choices, and Angels in America I would say, probably, are two shows that the conversation had to continue after. 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 . 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. 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. It was a smart way to talk about hard things. Doesnt this acquaint? Exploring grief, mental health struggles and the dangers of social media, the musical was embraced by young people for its honest . Who would find that most difficult? Evan was who we eventually created. 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. When Dear Evan Hansen premiered on Broadway in 2016, it drew near-universal praise from New York's theater critics. That problem, its the plot point. View in iTunes. We are all looking and seeing how much fun everything else is thats happening. Broadway - July 30, 2017. 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! 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. Its just made me more aware of when Im using technology as a crutch or as a way of avoiding interactions. Found the image online but it's shown in the book Dear Evan Hansen: Through the Window. SM: It does start with a 17-year-old boy alone in his bedroom scrolling through social media. I think thats what makes it special. We actually went out to our fans, and we told them exactly how to take a picture of themselves, and send their faces in to us. Now theyre gone. SM: But in 25 years, they may have all been over and done with that panic. But once she gets on the blog, she blossoms. 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: Its so universal, because I think we all feel that way. 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? 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. I hope it goes Is it coming to San Francisco? With Ben Platt, Julianne Moore, Kaitlyn Dever, Amy Adams. What happens? Its also a very traditional show, if you think about it. It was so fascinating because it was so old and so relevant at the same time, so you felt the age of it because it felt old, like what youre talking about. Ive seen so much stuff that is very earnest about the show in the way that the stuff about Connors arent. I hope that people who have felt like Evan and who have felt like everybody else is having a wonderful life except for them. Not all of them hit. 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 . Will you support Voxs explanatory journalism? A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never . It could have happened 100 years in the future. They didnt know that Connor had any friends. Its quite enormous in terms of how it gets known. Thats been the lesson Ive learned. Laura Baronet. It is. 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. Theres a moment where he says those were private, those letters, and she has no idea what he even means by that. A Note to Readers: This article contains significant plot points and spoilers from "Dear Evan Hansen" as they relate to teen mental health.
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