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<p>Created page with &quot;Dear Evan Hansen is a 2015 stage musical with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and a book by Steven Levenson. ==Original text== The musical follows Evan Hans...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Dear Evan Hansen is a 2015 stage musical with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and a book by Steven Levenson. <br /> <br /> ==Original text==<br /> <br /> The musical follows Evan Hansen, a high school senior with social anxiety, &quot;who invents an important role for himself in a tragedy that he did not earn&quot;.<br /> <br /> The musical opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre in December 2016, after the show's world premiere at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. in July 2015, and an Off-Broadway production at Second Stage Theatre from March to May 2016. <br /> <br /> ==Translations and adaptations==<br /> <br /> In 2021 a film was released, directed by Stephen Chbosky and written by Steven Levenson (in his feature film screenwriting debut), based on the 2015 stage musical by Levenson, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. Ben Platt plays the title role, reprising the performance that he originated on stage six years earlier. <br /> <br /> ==Performance history in South Africa==<br /> <br /> 2025: Presented by [[Showtime Management]] &amp; [[How Now Brown Cow Productions]] at [[Artscape]], Cape Town and [[Teatro]] at Montecasino, Johannesburg, with direction by [[Greg Karvellas]], with musical supervision by [[Charl-Johan Lingenfelder]] and set, lighting, and costume design by [[Niall Griffin]]. The musical director is [[Kurt Haupt]], [[David Classen]] is the sound designer and [[Louisa Talbot]] is choreographer. Technical direction by [[Alistair Kilbee]]. With [[Stuart Brown]] as Evan, [[Lucy Tops]] as Heidi Hansen, [[Justin Swartz]] as Jared Kleinman, [[Ntshikeng Matooane]] as Alana Beck, [[Keely Crocker]] as Zoe Murphy, [[Michael Stray]] as Connor Murphy, [[Sharon Spiegel Wagner]] as Cynthia, [[Charlie Bouguenon]] as Larry Murphy, [[Shelley Lothian]], [[Léa Blerk]], [[Arno Meyer]] and [[Kent Jaycocke]].<br /> <br /> ==Sources==<br /> <br /> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Evan_Hansen<br /> <br /> https://whatsonincapetown.com/dear-evan-hansen-musical/<br /> <br /> ==Return to==<br /> <br /> Return to [[PLAYS I: Original SA plays]]<br /> <br /> Return to [[PLAYS II: Foreign plays]]<br /> <br /> Return to [[PLAYS III: Collections]]<br /> <br /> Return to [[PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances]]<br /> <br /> Return to [[South_African_Festivals|South African Festivals and Competitions]]<br /> <br /> Return to [[The ESAT Entries]]<br /> <br /> Return to [[Main Page]]</div>

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