New York, NY, Accessibility Statement Terms Privacy |StageAgent 2020. Stacey, why dont you go through the story so people get a sense of what happens. This sends Evan on a journey of self-discovery and . Because today, all you have to do is be yourself. Book writer Steven Levenson on the power of moral tension---In some ways, "You Will Be Found" is just a moving song. I just did an interview with Alison Bechdel. That was me in high school. Maybe they didnt tell the lie. 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). He'll just hold on. Shes always trying to help people. Please consider making a one-time contribution to Vox today. He plays off of Evan. Shes a true survivor. SM: The comic Jared Kleinman, who together with Alana are also, theyre our great chorus. They purposely didnt. What do you hope to accomplish, each of you? And especially with the pain. The Broadway hit-turned-film Dear Evan Hansen ' s ending created some controversy and a flurry of questions. My lesson here that will change my life forever was that this kind of word of mouth, you cannot manufacture. 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. Each of you take one and talk about what they mean and what youre trying to do. Okay. Where do you see theater going? "Dear Evan Hansen" is a high school musical, but one in which the loneliness and pain of teen life is front and center, and the sense of isolation intensified in today's social media world. Be yourself! Oh very much, so no matter what you do People bringing, its like an old Seinfeld episode, remember? But once she gets on the blog, she blossoms. 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. 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. 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. Final Scene and Finale by Dear Evan Hansen OBC - Karaoke Lyrics on Smule. 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. I see that with even the show This is Us on NBC. But yet he goes along with it, he goes along with the lie. Where else do you actually have to put your phone away? Then, in the darkness, a laptop snaps open. 4. 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. I think she is an incredible depiction of contemporary motherhood, whether youre a single mom or not, busy, under pressure, trying hard, absolutely love your child, but in the daily rush of things doesnt always get everything right. Im going to keep pushing this because you got to see something in the new VR. Just, uh, you knowbe true to yourself. My son had one with a bad video, and it went up. This show is really depicting the way we live in America now, the way we are at our breakfast tables with our families. TikTok isnt really limiting kids time on its app. Today is going to be a good day, and here's why; because today, no matter what else you are you. If you like this, be sure to subscribe to Recode Decode on Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, TuneIn or Stitcher. Support our mission, and make a gift today. 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. 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. Chloe? And then she would be like, No, its Zoe. DEAR EVAN HANSEN Stripe Collection Navy Pocket Tee Regular price $30.00 USD Regular price $40.00 USD Sale price $30.00 USD Unit price / per . Youre also not trying to do lesson learning. EVAN: (don't forget to TALK FAST) Dear Evan Hansen, Today is going to be an amazing day and here's why Because, Because today um all you have to do SL: Then there are a lot of expressionistic approaches to the internet, which is like fractured images and text. 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. Offended by the "girly" clothes worn by his daughter's elementary school art teacher, one parent has taken aim at . You talked about it at the beginning, but your show has benefited from that too. You do feel in this thing. Benj and Justin and I were just talking recently about how when we were in high school, we assumed that everybody was having more fun than we were, but now if youre a high school student, you have proof every day that everybody is happier than you are. Theyre all by the time we meet them at the beginning of the show, they have been through hell already. 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".. SM: It is, although I must say, to me, Hamilton is a movement, a phenomenon, something that is SM: It is. It turns out to be false, or an advertising or a marketing thing. Do you imagine a future where that doesnt have to be what we do, like tape it and make it? So no hiding. We have parents who come with each other on their theater date night, and they come back and they bring their kids. Its the experience.. Nobody in this world wants or rather, everybody wants to believe the story that he tells. How Trump uses it is fascinating. Teens can still click right on through the new screen time limit. 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. Tickets are $69.50-$229.50. 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. I was so happy to be in that room telling the story about people rising above the lies and finding unity together. Here's hoping I won't be a singing w. START. There is haptic touch. It feels like somewhere, thats the solution to the fake news is to reach people in their core. We have seen kids leave. Easy to talk to. One of our founding members Tom Stevenson gives his rendition of this modern monologue taken from the hit musical Dear Evan Hansen. 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. 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. Please consider making a one-time contribution to Vox today. Where else do you have to shut it off? 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. Monologues are presented on StageAgent for educational purposes only. SM: It does start with a 17-year-old boy alone in his bedroom scrolling through social media. SM: And yet the final scene of our show set in an apple orchard that was planted in Connors honor, and not exactly in a straight-line way, but yet as Evan says at the end of the show, He was memorialized, and there is this moment to step out into the sun. Its the hardest ticket to get right now. It feels very much like a phone going up. SL: Yeah, Ben Platt who plays Evan Hansen, who weve been discussing. It was a smart way to talk about hard things. Right. I was looking at the social media on the show. 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. 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 . SM: Sort of, but the thing that youd try so hard to do when youre marketing a show is create a way for word of mouth to happen. Whats the worst social media thing youve done? SM: What about all the angry people whod tweet? The ensemble cast also includes Kaitlyn Dever, Amandla Stenberg, Nik Dodani . Not all of them hit. I hope that people who have felt like Evan and who have felt like everybody else is having a wonderful life except for them. I think that is the beauty of Stevens writing. This is Evan's mom. Its not scalable, as they say. That problem, its the plot point. Today is going to be an amazing day and heres why: because, uh, because today all you have to do is just be yourself. How about do you feel about this, Steven? SL: Thats the thing. I want to continue to have that experience that I saw A Chorus Line 28 times, not on VR. Because she wants to use it for that, she wants to use it for advantage. Im only mentioning VR because its different than film or television. Thats to me, I think, the difficulty they had is they didnt like him. Stacey and Steven, welcome to Recode Decode. Can I please speak to ?. I dont know how old you are, but it was mind-blowing, and I went a dozen times. That is something as Stacey said that is organic and then we cant control. Is that your name? You can read some of the highlights from the interview at that link, or listen to it in the audio player below. In that song, which becomes really a soliloquy, we see this person Evan, just his soul is bared. Again, it just gives credit to Stevens real knack for credible, authentic characters, because I think that is so true of so many men. 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.