Shows · Dear Evan Hansen
Dear Evan Hansen
Opened 2016
1,670 performances
Musical, Contemporary
Tony Award for Best Musical, 2017
Anxious, isolated teenager Evan Hansen writes himself therapeutic letters that begin "Dear Evan Hansen." When a troubled classmate, Connor Murphy, takes one of these letters and then dies by suicide, a misunderstanding leads everyone to believe the two were secret best friends. Evan seizes the lie as a chance to finally belong, but as his fabricated friendship inspires a viral social media movement, the weight of his deception threatens to destroy the real connections he has built.
- Music
- Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
- Lyrics
- Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
- Book
- Steven Levenson
Productions4 productions: 1 on Broadway, 3 in the West End
Songs5 songs
You Will Be Found, Waving Through a Window, Sincerely Me, Words Fail, For Forever
Recordings 8 recordings
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Dear Evan Hansen matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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.