by Mike Haber | Sep 24, 2021 | Antoinette (Tony) Awards, Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
Today is going to be an amazing day and here’s why; because, today, the film adaptation of the Award winning groundbreaking musical
Dear Evan Hansen is released today in Theaters. Even after a extremely rough 18 1/2 months, this powerful story finally makes the big jump from our Theater scene to the Big Screen. This story is truly the ultimate celebration of the underdogs and celebrating those to let their voices be heard.
Under the direction of Stephen Chbosky. the film stars…..
the musical’s original star
Ben Platt reprising his Tony Award winning performance as the title role of “Evan Hansen” himself,
Oscar, Emmy, and Golden Globe winner
Julianne Moore as “Heidi Hansen”,
Golden Globe nominee Kaitlin Dever as “Zoe Murphy”,
Colton Ryan as “Connor Murphy” (a part he previously understudied in the Broadway production),
Acclaimed actor and comedian Nik Dodani as “Jared Kleinman”,
Danny Pino as “Larry” (who is now updated as the stepfather of “The Murphy Family”).
It features all the beloved Tony and Grammy winning songs by
Pasek and Paul. In addition, there are 2 new ones written for the film which promises to make audiences an emotional mess. Ironically, speaking of the score….. the film’s soundtrack is also available today…. both for digital and physical copies.
If anyone who enjoys the film version, we know this will get more audiences to come and see the stage version of DEAR EVAN HANSEN as it prepares to return this Fall. Our very own New York company will reopen at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre starting December 11th, 2021. Meanwhile, the London company reopens at the Noel Coward Theatre starting October 26th, 2021. From there, the North American National Tour will re-kick off December 7th, 2021 in Greensboro, NC before traveling to more than 30 cities across both the USA and and Canada.
WORDS FAIL to describe our excitement. Once again, we seriously cannot wait to go WATCH, WATCH, WATCHIN’ this movie at our local movie Theaters. We know it will inspire us once again that even in the toughest times, YOU WILL BE FOUND.
Congrats to the full cast, crew, creative team, and everyone involved.
See DEAR EVAN HANSEN: THE MOVIE in a Theater near you.
SINCERLEY ME (and everyone at New York Broadway Tours)
by Mike Haber | Sep 19, 2021 | Antoinette (Tony) Awards, Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
GOOD MORNING BROADWAY FANS! Today is gonna be an exciting day and here’s why….. We are just 1 WEEK AWAY from Broadway’s biggest night. Can you believe its 7 days till The 74th Annual
Tony Awards?!!! We at New York Broadway Tours have more of your favorite iconic performances coming your way on our TOP 50 TONY AWARDS COUNTDOWN
At # 7 on our countdown, we have one of the most powerful, groundbreaking, and inspirational shows out there. It tells the story of a young High School outcast who finds himself in the center of something that was not to be seen by the Public and a lie that was never meant to be told. This is
Dear Evan Hansen. The show features a score by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul along with a book by Steven Levenson.
From the 2017 telecast, here is the musical’s iconic Tony Award winning star
Ben Platt and the original Broadway cast performing one of the show’s most beloved signature underdog anthems WAVING THROUGH A WINDOW.
DEAR EVAN HANSEN was originally inspired by a real incident from Benj Pasek years in High School where a troubled teenager was found dead due to drug problems and all of a sudden, he had more mourners in death than friends in real life. The incident always came back to Pasek, he along with his collaborator Justin Paul began to create a full musical inspired by that tragic event. They decided to tell the story following an outcast with social anxiety and mental illness be in the center of it all. The show was then passed on to director Michael Grief who fell in love with the piece. From there, the show went through many years of readings and workshops.
The show originally premiered in 2015 at
Arena Stage in Washington D.C. before making its way Off Broadway playing Second Stage Theater in the Spring of 2016. The response of the Off Broadway run was well received by critics and audiences, the show was then transferred to Broadway’s Music Box Theatre before becoming one of Broadway’s most popular hottest tickets.
Under the direction of Michael Grief, the cast consisted of…
Tony winner
Rachel Bay Jones (later Lisa Brescia and Jessica Phillips) as “Heidi Hansen”,
Tony nominee Mike Faist (later
Alex Boniello and David Jeffery) as “Connor Murphy”,
Will Roland (later Sky Lakota-Lynch and Jared Goldsmith) as “Jared Kleinman”,
Kristolyn Lloyd (later Phoenix Best, Samantha Williams, and Pheobe Koyabe) as “Alana Beck”,
Michael Parks (later Ivan Hernandez) as “Larry Murphy”.
The show was nominated for 9 Tony Awards in 2017 winning 6 including BEST MUSICAL, BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (for
Pasek and Paul), and BEST LEADING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL (for Ben Platt). It’s Original Broadway Cast Recording also went on to win the
Grammy Award for BEST MUSICAL THEATRE ALBUM.
Along with Broadway, DEAR EVAN HANSEN was playing to packed houses all over North America with its current National Tour, on a North American National Tour, and most recently made its UK Debut in London’s West End (where it just took home the
Olivier for BEST NEW MUSICAL).
The show continued to sell out every night on Broadway and around the world until it was abruptly shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it is coming back this Fall. The Broadway production will reopen at the Music Box Theatre starting December 11th, 2021. The London company reopens at the Noel Coward Theatre starting October 26th, 2021. From there, the North American National Tour will re-kick off December 7th, 2021 in Greensboro, NC before traveling to more than 30 cities across both the USA and and Canada.
In addition to its success on stage, the musical is about to inspire audiences on the big screen. The film adaptation is set to come out THIS FRIDAY, September 24th, 2021 in Theaters everywhere. Produced by
Universal Pictures, Marc Platt and Adam Siegel, and directed by Stephen Chbosky, the film will feature a full all-star cast led by….
Ben Platt reprising his Tony winning performance of the title role,
Oscar, Emmy, and Golden Globe winner
Julianne Moore as “Heidi Hansen”,
Golden Globe nominee Kaitlin Dever as “Zoe Murphy”,
Colton Ryan as “Connor Murphy” (a part he previously understudied in the Broadway production),
Acclaimed actor and comedian
Nik Dodani as “Jared Kleinman”,
Danny Pino as “Larry” (who is now updated as the stepfather of “The Murphy Family”),
The new film will have some unique updates including brand new Ensemble characters created specifically for the film. It also will feature 2 new original songs written for the film by Pasek and Paul along with all the beloved hits from the musical.
DEAR EVAN HANSEN is a celebration of everyone.
Doesn’t this show make you really care for the underdogs who feel like they don’t have a voice?
#TonyAwards #CountdownToTheTonys #BroadwaysBiggestNight #NYBTTop50TonyAwardsCountdown #ThisIsBroadway
by Mike Haber | Sep 10, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
FIRST LISTEN: This month marks the highly anticipated release of the film adaptation of the Tony, Grammy, and Olivier Award winning smash hit
Dear Evan Hansen. As previously announced, this new movie version will include not only the beloved songs from the stage production but new songs as well written by
Pasek and Paul.
We are so happy to introduce to all of you the most talked about song in the new film. The song entitled THE ANYONYMOUS ONES is sung by the character of brainiac “Alana Beck” (played by
Amandla Stenberg). It’s sung midway through the film. Very relevant song about the underdogs out there.
Along with Stanberg’s version, the song will also be heard in the end credits sung by recording artist SZA.
Both versions will be heard on the soundtrack out the same day the film is released on September 24th, 2021.
by Mike Haber | Aug 26, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
BREAKING NEWS: The soundtrack for the highly anticipated film adaptation of the Tony and Grammy winning smash hit
Dear Evan Hansen is now available for pre-orders. According to
iTunes, the full tracklist of all the songs in the film has been revealed.
The new film will include only 9 of
Pasek and Paul songs from the stage production including WAVING THROUGH A WINDOW, FOR FOREVER, SINCERLEY ME, REQUIEM, and of course YOU WILL BE FOUND. There will also be 2 new songs written specifically for the movie consisting of…
THE ANONYMOUS ONES (sung by the character of “Alana Beck”)
and
A LITTLE CLOSER (sung by “Connor Murphy”.
With all of this, sadly the following songs from the stage production will NOT appear in the film consisting of….
the show’s PROLOUGE number ANYBODY HAVE A MAP,
DISAPEAR,
TO BREAK IN A GLOVE,
and
the revealing and intense f*** you anthem GOOD FOR YOU.
This is all sung by the film’s promising incredible all-star cast consisting of…..
Ben Platt reprising his Tony winning performance as the title role,
Oscar, Emmy, and Golden Globe winner
Julianne Moore as “Heidi Hansen”,
Golden Globe nominee Kaitlyn Dever as “Zoe Murphy”,
Colton Ryan reprising his performance he understudied in the Broadway production as “Connor Murphy”,
Acclaimed actor and comedian
Nik Dodani as “Jared Kleinman”,
The film adaptation of
Dear Evan Hansen is coming to Theaters on September 24th, 2021.
Meanwhile, the stage version is set to return this year!! The Broadway company of Dear Evan Hansen will reopen at the Music Box Theatre starting December 11th, 2021. Meanwhile, the London company reopens at the Noel Coward Theatre starting October 26th, 2021. From there, the North American National Tour will re-kick off December 7th, 2021 in Greensboro, NC before traveling to more than 30 cities across both the USA and and Canada.
WORDS FAIL to describe our excitement. Once again, we seriously cannot wait to go WATCH, WATCH, WATCHIN’ this movie at our local movie Theaters.
Thoughts on the soundtrack?
Who is excited for this film?!!
by Mike Haber | Aug 18, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
DEAR FANSENS,
Next month is going to be an unforgettable week and here’s why….
Not only we’re celebrating the return of Broadway, we will also be celebrating the release of the film adaptation of the Award winning smash hit Dear Evan Hansen. Our hearts are filled with anticipation FOR FOREVER as a brand new poster has been released.
The poster features a montage of scenes from this new film featuring its all-star cast. Under the direction of Stephen Chbosky. the film star’s…..
the musical’s original star Ben Platt reprising his Tony Award winning performance as the title role of “Evan Hansen” himself,
Oscar, Emmy, and Golden Globe winner Julianne Moore as “Heidi Hansen”,
Golden Globe nominee Kaitlin Dever as “Zoe Murphy”,
Oscar nominee Amy Adams as “Cynthia Murphy”,
Colton Ryan as “Connor Murphy” (a part he previously understudied in the Broadway production),
Acclaimed actress and singer Amandla Stenberg as “Alana Beck”,
Acclaimed actor and comedian Nik Dodani as “Jared Kleinman”,
&
Danny Pino as “Larry” (who is now updated as the stepfather of “The Murphy Family”).
The film will have some unique updates including brand new Ensemble characters created specifically for the film. New to the world of this powerful show will include Broadway favorites….
Isaac Powell (who was appearing on Broadway prior before COVID hit in the revival of West Side Story) as school jock “Rhys”,
Demarius Copes (recently seen on Broadway prior before COVID in the just recently abruptly closed Mean Girls) as “Oliver”,
and
Gerald Caesar as “Josh”.
You can expect to hear all the beloved Pasek and Paul songs from the musical (including WAVING THROUGH A WINDOW, FOR FOREVER, and YOU WILL BE FOUND). In addition, the duo themselves wrote several new songs especially for the film.
Along with the new movie, we cannot wait to experience this powerful musical back on stage when Live Theater reopens its doors.
As previously mentioned, the Broadway production of Dear Evan Hansen will reopen at the Music Box Theatre starting December 11th, 2021.
Along with the Broadway company’s return, DEAR EVAN HANSEN will also re-launch its various productions worldwide. The London company reopens at the Noel Coward Theatre starting October 26th, 2021. From there, the North American National Tour will re-kick off December 7th, 2021 in Greensboro, NC before traveling to more than 30 cities across both the USA and and Canada.
WORDS FAIL to describe our excitement. Once again, we seriously cannot wait to go WATCH, WATCH, WATCHIN’ this movie at our local movie Theaters.
SINCERLEY ME
(and everyone at New York Broadway Tours)
P.S. Who is excited?!!
