I want to finish up on what do you hope where to go, where it happens, because you definitely, youre very current. EVAN. 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. Its quite extraordinary. Dear Evan Hansen. Keep going until he sees the sun." 3. will2btenor 6 yr. ago. Why do people, especially our age, feel the need to broadcast their sadness and their mourning? New York, NY, Linda Ray Because she wants to use it for that, she wants to use it for advantage. September 10, 2021. Talk about the other characters, the mothers, both parents. SM: That was never meant to be literal, because we hope the show will live for many years, and these things may become dinosaurs. Theres something about this story. 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. This is in the song "Sincerely, Me". ap micro unit 3 id's. 45 terms. Thats not going to work. I was so happy to be in that room telling the story about people rising above the lies and finding unity together. Dear Evan Hansen Monologue. In the beginning of the ad campaign, those faces were actually stock faces that we bought. 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. They didnt know that Connor had any friends. And intellig but, just be yourself!! The only thing I knew about Dear Evan Hansen before this point was that the main character had a broken arm. 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.". That is cool. I brought my son, whos 15. 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. 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. Theres a moment where he says those were private, those letters, and she has no idea what he even means by that. I like to insult him, but hes a genius on Twitter. Please consider making a one-time contribution to Vox today. Sep 23, 2019 - Explore Abby Gallegos's board "Monologues" on Pinterest. SM: It is, although I must say, to me, Hamilton is a movement, a phenomenon, something that is SM: It is. SM: Were struggling and learning. Theres been some shows that have been real touchdowns, like Hamilton and some others that have been really Theres a new, I cant remember the latest one, but theres a bunch that Maybe its The Grand Hotel, one that seems fantastic in some ways. Exploring grief, mental health struggles and the dangers of social media, the musical was embraced by young people for its honest . 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. SL: Everyone in the show is doing things for the right reason. Okay. SM: Shows have changed so much. I just saw it in San Francisco. It didn't make it into the show, it's the note that Evan was originally gonna write to himself. Why do you think this resonated? I think people are hungering to feel a part of a community, and to be sitting in an audience with other people. Music sales now go through individual songs, although, I think, probably cast like theater sale whole much better. DEAR EVAN HANSEN, the winner of six 2017 Tony Awards including Best Musical and the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Whats happened is theres dozens of shows. You got involved with this, and what were you thinking, Steven? YouTube is the beginning. You can find more episodes of Recode Decode anywhere you listen to a podcast. Is it this one square mile abroad or whatever? SL: I was struck immediately by this whole concept of the voyeurism and exhibitionism of grief, which was really what I think Benj was so interested in. Kara Swisher: Hi, Im Kara Swisher, executive editor of Recode. The eponymous Evan has been tasked by his therapist with writing pep talk letters to himself to help him visualize success: "Dear Evan Hansen, Today is going to be a great day." Youll have it. Just, uh, you knowbe true to yourself. The plot of Dear Evan Hansen begins with a letter, unsurprisingly given the title. I think each one really leads the theater world to be a beauty, to do more and to be more honest. Theyre like, Whats that? Im like, Oh, okay, let me just break it down for you. It was fascinating. Ben Platt plays the title role, reprising the performance that he originated on stage six years earlier. You used to pay for social media with your eyeballs. If Dear Evan Hansen addresses these problems and anxieties, it also explores, presciently, how easily experience can be faked online and how persuasive those fakes can be. Stacey and Steven, welcome to Recode Decode. SL: I think storytelling is going to continue to evolve into different forms and formats. Something we talked about really early on was this was like six years ago, so Facebook and Twitter were really coming into their own, and it felt like whenever there was a natural disaster or a celebrity passed away, there would be the strange public ritual of people going on social media and somehow identifying with the tragedy. Whats it like to create theater in this age, in this age of digital? JustANumberToYou. . Shes always trying to help people. So no hiding. 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. Ben Platt in "Dear Evan Hansen." "Dear Evan Hansen" has been criticized because Ben Platt is a 27-year-old playing a student. Now its all about Trump. 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. After Evan's parents' divorce, his father moves to Colorado to start a new family, and his mom works constantly and never has time for Evan. Your director Michael did Rent. I remember when Rent came out. Found the image online but it's shown in the book Dear Evan Hansen: Through the Window. I think shes a very important character for some reason, being a mom to SM: Very, very, because she is the one that he comes home to in the end and discovers his, I hope spoiler alerts are okay, but discovers he has something that he didnt realize before. Easy to talk to. 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 was expecting that. Thats what I really appreciate is it wasnt an attack. Its fascinating. Absolutely. Or even knowing phone numbers, but thats another thing. New York, NY, Ages 12-17: Camp Broadway Ensemble @ Carnegie Hall Chloe? 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. SL: From the beginning, we decided we wanted this to be a contemporary musical. Do see it, and see that beneath the faade, were all searching for the same things. This election, fake news everywhere kind of thing, and now the president just uses it as a catch phrase. The story alone is so icky, so offensive, so profoundly manipulative and fraudulent, that it really never should have gotten a single Tony (or six), much less a film adaptation. Here's hoping I won't be a singing w. I think that is the beauty of Stevens writing. I talked about mistakes. Hes the most awkward 17-year-old ever, Im going to have to tell you. Its super hard for them to do anything good online. On that stage, and you also used it in your own marketing, you had Twitter, Facebook, what else? The next thing I want you to talk about is where theater is going. 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. Ive gone to theater in New York my whole life. DEAR EVAN HANSEN Stripe Collection Polo . What were you going for to create that feeling of being on the phone or being assaulted by media? Explain to me how long a show takes to get through? Just, uh, you knowbe true to yourself. 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. Is that your name? Dear Evan Hansen, the smash-hit, Tony winning 2015 musical, was, depending on your outlook, a poignant depiction of the mental health perils of high school, or an unrelentingly . Then it was so relevant to today at the same time. I do think youre right about books. 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".. It was that and Angels in America were very big deals. Yeah, absolutely. 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. jennyjenrose. SM: Hes not fictional to me anymore, because not only have I lived with him for so long, but I stand in the back of the theater. If youre not that private, thats why you have that many and stuff like 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. Sign up today to unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. Because today, all you have to do is be yourself. Social media proved its relevance outside of establishing the modern setting as the speech goes viral all over the internet, an important plot point expressed beautifully across the digital . On his journey to be found, he discovers the consequences of risking it all for the chance to . Its not scalable. What did you use that for?, SM: I had to explain to one of my sons how to actually call someones home, because theyre so used to calling someone directly. They werent sweaty until you started worrying that they were sweaty, which made them sweaty, so you put them under the hand dryer in the bathroom. Dear Evan Hansen explores the meaning of family, particularly found family, as the teenage characters find new sources of familial support and acceptance. They were holding back the stuff. SL: Yes. SM: We dont have a current plan to do that. 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. See more ideas about monologues, acting monologues, dear even hansen. Its an interesting question, because throughout the preview process and throughout the out of town production in off Broadway, there were always a certain number of people whove thought he didnt suffer enough for what he did. SL: Its incredible that that has been happening and happened around the show. "My name. A particularly exciting addition to the Dear Evan Hansen cast announced per Variety is Amy Adams. It means, Do your homework, brush your teeth. This has been really fascinating. I dont know, if you dont live in Silicon Valley, but I, like, oh my God, her. The family needs this story just as much as he does. Dear Evan Hansen, Today is going to be an amazing day and here's why: because, uh, because today all you have to do is just be yourself. And the father? I hope more people will listen to this and come. He has social anxiety, which shapes his personality throughout the musical. It actually took me a couple of years of watching the show every night to really understand her plight. People have said to me, theyre sure he has Aspergers or something else. I know Hamilton didnt put things online, like a ton of stuff. SL: No. By Nils Skudra. The most iconic track from the musical remained, while some of the new songs are used to flesh out supporting characters. SM: I will say, though, that there has been a wonderful conversation going on these eight years about this, because Steven and Benj and Justin are from one generation. 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. Now, that mosaic as we call it in our key art is all 100 percent our fans faces. She is a child that has grown up out of the spotlight because her brother took up so much of the oxygen. Dear 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. You could see as experienced, everyones got to have the heightened sense of experience all the time. Its also a lot about the impact of the internet on teens and everyone. 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. You see it outside the theater, I have stood at a matinee and seen the people leaving get back online to buy more tickets. That was me in high school. Maybe they didnt tell the lie. Then you Snapchat though, that was interesting of course I noticed that, of course its Snapchat. 23. 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. That is an event. You dont actively participate in the world, but thats how you comment. 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 was actually really meaningful. September 21, 2021. Its a beautiful song that Benj and Justin have written. There is feeling like Its disturbing how real it feels. 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. They did obviously make a CD, and theyre selling. 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 idea of getting people, especially younger people. Obviously, your star is well known from Pitch Perfect.. SL: Thats the thing. Everyones happy on Instagram, and everything is All food is delicious. 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. It should go everywhere, because I think its real. Because today all you have to do is be yourself. Because how you market the shows has changed, the way you sell tickets has changed. I think not just in my family but every family. 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. Just weaponize. People bring whatever they have themselves or they know about to him, but hes lonely and isolated. 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. This show is really depicting the way we live in America now, the way we are at our breakfast tables with our families. This time, this time he won't let go. It gets the people on an analog. Cynthia Murphy, who is the other mom, Connor Murphys mom, is equally as relatable, and I think it takes us part of her journey to really come to understand her and her fortitude, because she goes through the grief, the absolute horror, the last thing that any mother or father ever, ever, ever wants to go through, and yet shes so admirable because she keeps finding ways to lift herself up and to keep life going. We had bands of teenagers come in the beginning who loved Ben Platt, our star, from the Pitch Perfect movies, but they want to come back with their parents, and talk to their parents afterward. 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. He is in a total of 11 musical numbers. SM: No, as a matter of fact, we spend a lot of our time trying to get bootleg tapes of it off of YouTube. 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. 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? He is, within his opening monologue, portrayed beautifully and poignantly as somebody who is literally on the outside looking in as you can imagine on social media, but also in life. Evan Hansen is the main character in the musical Dear Evan Hansen. Yes, she is. You can read some of the highlights from the interview at that link, or listen to it in the audio player below. That is something as Stacey said that is organic and then we cant control. It must be seen to be believed." ADAM FELDMAN, TIME OUT NEW YORK. SL: It does feel like there is something, especially with younger people wanting something unique and something you can touch. You go to 10,000 rather at once, and its people sitting in the theater, and then 10,000 others. The novelization of Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's six-time Tony Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen is compelling and deeply emotional. It becomes a way of bringing people together, of making everyone feel less alone, and yet its all premised on this lie. Support our mission, and make a gift today. What do you hope to accomplish, each of you? He has a single mom who is trying her best, but not perhaps succeeding. Social media now lets you have People put up that video. SL: Yeah, Ben Platt who plays Evan Hansen, who weve been discussing. We give them a heads up. The teens are doing revenge porn like Evan. Im going to keep pushing this because you got to see something in the new VR. I love her because shes amazing. Broadway - August 3, 2017. Not anymore. But then they were still sweatyand just, uh, very warm as well. If you haven't seen it, let me attempt to briefly summarize the show's somewhat unbelievable plot. SL: But I will say thats the substitute of our musical. SL: Exactly. He is somebody in a world of connections who is completely disconnected and desperate to connect, and also terrifying to connect too. 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. 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. You talked about it at the beginning, but your show has benefited from that too. You have to up the game. Do you want to take a little plug, Steven? I was a journalist first. SL: Exactly. Dear Evan Hansen is a 2021 American coming-of-age musical film directed by Stephen Chbosky from a screenplay by Steven Levenson, based on the stage musical of the same name by Levenson, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul. Dear Evan Hansen has struck a chord with audiences and critics everywhere, including The Washington Post who says Dear Evan Hansen is, "Theatrical magic.One of the most remarkable shows in musical theatre history." The New York Times calls it "a breathtaking knockout of a musical."And NBC Nightly News declares the musical, "an anthem resonating on Broadway and beyond." Please consider making a one-time contribution to Vox today. 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. 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. 5 terms. SL: That was our initial Just thinking about the story, we knew that that was the easy obvious way of doing social media and of telling the story would be to poke fun at our using this technology to post as something that were not, but we felt like that was obvious. I do think you should get some of it a little bit online, because I think certain parts of it are really resonant in this age, and really talk about things in a really fair way. SM: I think the power of live theater is very potent, especially with a tale like this. He has just done incredible work, and its so exhaustive and so detailed. Everything has done that. SM: The father is an interesting nut to crack, because he at first doesnt emote about his pain. This has been a bad year. SL: No. When you were like that before, you didnt see it, and now you see the entire thing and what everybody else is doing. SL: It is, but that idea that these shows, all they are is the next performance. YouTube seems to be. So you heard TikToks being banned. I remember going on social media that night, the night of the election, people saying, Get in touch with me if you need somebody to talk to. It was actually genuine. SL: Exactly, yes, the paradox of a world where we are incredibly interconnected and yet isolation feels at an unprecedented level. On our stage at the end of Act One, in our Act One finale called You Will Be Found, the projections which basically is the internet goes viral. 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. Its the experience, sitting there in that theater in that one place with that one performance. SM: It did, but for me, immediately, when you tell me that there is a boy who is in trouble, me being who I am at this part of my life, I immediately said, Well then, there has to be a mom. It within moments became a multi-generational piece. When I was younger, I was like, Oh, Ill just put this book on my physical book, like, What?. We have a contact list from our website of multiple thousands and thousands and thousands of people that most shows dont have. SL: Never send an email when youre angry has been the best lesson. I think thats what makes it special. SM: The comic Jared Kleinman, who together with Alana are also, theyre our great chorus. SL: And loneliness, and so we immediately thought in a dramatic sense, Who would be the person who is unable to connect? Thats the big, like, thats number one: be yourself. It led to offline, which was interesting. SL: Exactly. Of course he is the ringleader of that and the instigator, but there is some complicity. 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. But also. He'll hold on and he'll keep going. Thats a very good play, or a delicate flower. You can only reach so many people. 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. We didnt have to buy the rights to a book to make this. Evan Hansen, an awkward, lonely high school senior, struggles with Social Anxiety Disorder. We havent really made a big deal about it right now, but our key art shows Evans torso with his arm in the cast. What happens to theater going forward then? Not all of them hit. Evan attempts to find the acceptance and love he has been lacking in his life. 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. 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. Final Scene and Finale by Dear Evan Hansen OBC - Karaoke Lyrics on Smule. At that time when people are going less and less analog and experience everything online, theres been some real cultural touchdown shows now. Sorry to tell you, but theyre coming. SL: Yes. Dear Evan Hansen (2021) centers on Evan Hansen (Ben Platt), a high school student with social anxiety disorder whose letter to himself, one that was not meant to be seen by others, lands into the wrong hands of fellow classmate, Connor Murphy (Colton Ryan), who, as a result, commits suicide. If you have the good fortune to become successful, you do become something more, but the essence of it is sitting in that theater. I guess it shows the way people are interacting with culture today. 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 . You know what I mean? When Dear Evan Hansen premiered on Broadway in 2016, it drew near-universal praise from New York's theater critics. SM: The whole business of theater is about putting butts in seats. 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. SM: Terrible, terrible, but no, were in a tiny theater really, and we very much want people to come and see us. SM: But for us, what serves our show so well is the intimacy of those 984 plus 16 standing room possibilities. Were on Apple Podcast, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Stitcher, SoundCloud and more, or just visit recode.net/podcasts for more. SL: We always wanted to thread that needle. I want to continue to have that experience that I saw A Chorus Line 28 times, not on VR. Oh very much, so no matter what you do People bringing, its like an old Seinfeld episode, remember? I recommend it. Ive seen so much stuff that is very earnest about the show in the way that the stuff about Connors arent. This is fake news, either of you. Yeah, but also, it is the agony of social media, and now you can see it. SM: She is also lonely. Monologues. The "Dear Evan Hansen" Trailer Just Dropped, Featuring A Very 27-Year-Old Ben Platt. Thats super interesting. It turns out to be false, or an advertising or a marketing thing. SL: Partly because we see the shows so many times, so we get really granular, and its like, Oh, thats not quite right.. 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. They want to continue the story, and they want to embellish the story. Is that retro like, Hey, lets put on our cashmere sweaters from the 50s, or not? I can tell you, because Im a super old person, it was so great not to know anything or have a phone around. I think its going to be that experience could exist, but it wont be the same. - The fourth letter in "Sincerely, Me" and the final letter of the first act. You dont know theyre happy. Then a week later, two of them divorced. I was looking at the social media on the show.
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