The run closed September 18, 2022
- Opened
- December 4, 2016
- Closed
- September 18, 2022
- Performances
- 1,670
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Music Box Theatre
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 8th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Dear Evan Hansen 2 more that season
| 2018 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2019 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it44 named
Becca Ayers
Mary Bacon
Gerard Canonico
Mykal Kilgore
Stephen Kunken
Carrie Manolakos
Natalie Weiss
Tim Young
Stephen Christopher Anthony
Andrew Barth Feldman
Jordan Fisher
Sam Primack
Mallory Bechtel
Phoenix Best
Alex Boniello
Lisa Brescia
Gabrielle Carrubba
Ciara Alyse Harris
David Jeffery
Noah Kieserman
Sky Lakota-Lynch
Gaten Matarazzo
Christiane Noll
Jessica Phillips
Talia Simone Robinson
Ann Sanders
22 of these 44 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 22 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters8 roles recorded
Ellis Kirk Evan Hansen
Rebecca McKinnis Heidi Hansen
Lauren Conroy Zoe Murphy
, Nyncke Beekhuyzen Cynthia Murphy
Martin Crewes Larry Murphy
Tom Dickerson Jared Kleinman
Mariel Percossi Alana Beck
Killian Thomas Lefevre Connor Murphy
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Michael Greif
- Choreographer
- Danny Mefford
- Orchestrations
- Alex Lacamoire
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 6 from 9 nominations
| Best Musical | Won |
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.'
Speaker not recorded. The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 293- Dear Evan Hansen (musical), 70, 299 Singular Sensation the Triumph of Broadway the Triumph of Michael Riedel First A, p. 303
- Come from Away versus SpongeBob Square Pants (2017). With Dear Evan Hansen out of the way, it would have been clear sailing for this small earnest and heartwarming musical about 9/11 victims and its saviors. The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 193
- Rent ran twelve years on Broadway, grossing nearly $300 million. It brought a new generation of writers to the theater—Robert Lopez, who wrote Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon; Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the creators of Dear Evan Hansen; Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Next to Normal; and Lin-… Singular Sensation the Triumph of Broadway the Triumph of Michael Riedel First A, p. 68
- How could these two millennials write convincingly of the era? They did so well that they seemed to be a Golden Age team. And yet, as their subsequent scores for Dogfight and Dear Evan Hansen have proved, they’re very much members of their musical generation. The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 258
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What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Dear Evan Hansen at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.