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Dear Evan Hansen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Dear Evan Hansen

Shows · Dear Evan Hansen

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…

Opened
2016
Performances
1,670
Type
Musical
Era
Contemporary
Music: Benj Pasek & Justin PaulLyrics: Benj Pasek & Justin PaulBook: Steven Levenson

Productions3 on Broadway

2016 Music Box Theatre Original. December 4, 2016 · Michael Greif 1,670 performances · 6 Tony wins
2018 Transfer Theatre not recorded. May 10, 2018
2019 Transfer Theatre not recorded.

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Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International Dear Evan Hansen matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

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In the literature4 passages

Dear Evan Hansen (musical), 70, 299 book:singular-sensation-the-triumph-of-broadway-the-triumph-of-michael-riedel-first-a#p303

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. book:the-book-of-broadway-musical-debates-disputes-and-peter-filichia-rowman-littlefi#p193

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-… book:singular-sensation-the-triumph-of-broadway-the-triumph-of-michael-riedel-first-a#p68

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. book:the-book-of-broadway-musical-debates-disputes-and-peter-filichia-rowman-littlefi#p258

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