Shows · Dear Evan Hansen · Music Box Theatre, 2016
Dear Evan Hansen, 2016
Opened December 4, 2016
Closed September 18, 2022
1,670 performances
Original
Broadway
6 Tony Awards
Of the productions that opened in the 2010s, this had the 8th longest run.
Other stagings of Dear Evan Hansen 3 more
Who was in it44 named
Becca Ayers
Mary Bacon
Mykal Kilgore
Stephen Kunken
Carrie Manolakos
Natalie Weiss
Tim Young
Stephen Christopher Anthony
Andrew Barth Feldman
Sam Primack
Mallory Bechtel
Phoenix Best
Alex Boniello
Lisa Brescia
Gabrielle Carrubba
Manoel Felciano
Ciara Alyse Harris
Ivan Hernandez
David Jeffery
Noah Kieserman
Sky Lakota-Lynch
Gaten Matarazzo
Christiane Noll
Jessica Phillips
Talia Simone Robinson
Ann Sanders
Creative team
- Director
- Michael Greif
- Choreographer
- Danny Mefford
- Orchestrations
- Alex Lacamoire
Tony Awards 6 from 9 nominations
Recordings 7 released while this run was on
1 more exist for other runs of this show: see Dear Evan Hansen for all of them.
Around this production
Dear Evan Hansen is a stage musical with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and a book by Steven Levenson. The musical follows Evan Hansen, a high school senior with social anxiety, "who invents an important role for himself in a tragedy that he did not earn". The show's world premiere was at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. in July 2015. After an Off-Broadway production at Second Stage Theatre from March to May 2016. The musical transferred to Broadway, opening at the Music Box Theatre in December 2016. It closed on September 18, 2022. The show received critical acclaim; at the 71st Tony Awards, it was nominated for nine awards, winning six, including Best Musical, Best Book…
'To Break in a Glove' (Dear Evan Hansen, 2016). You might not think it’s worth it,” sings Mr. Murphy. “You might begin to doubt. But you can’t take any shortcuts; you gotta stick it out. And it’s the hard way, but it’s the right way.'
The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 293Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.