DEAR EVAN HANSEN broadcasts UK tour in 2024

A brand new manufacturing of the Olivier, Tony and Grammy award-winning Finest Musical DEAR EVAN HANSEN will open on the Nottingham Playhouse on 9 September 2024, forward of a UK tour.

Ryan Kopel (Newsies) will play the long-lasting function of Evan Hansen, alongside Lauren Conroy (Into The Woods) as Zoe Murphy and Alice Fearn (Depraved, Come From Away) as Evan’s mum, Heidi. 

They are going to be joined by Helen Anker (MaMMA Mia!) as Cynthia Murphy, Richard Hurst (The Lion King) as Larry Murphy, Killian Thomas Lefevre (Bat Out Of Hell) as Connor Murphy, Tom Dickerson (Heathers) as Jared Kleinman, Vivian Panka (9 to five the Musical) as Alana Beck and Sonny Monaghan (found by way of TikTok) as alternate Evan.

That is the primary manufacturing of Pricey Evan Hansen within the UK to carry out the present with an ensemble. The ensemble are Lara Beth-Sas, Will Forgrave, Daniel Forrester, Jessica Lim, Sonny Monaghan and Shakira Simpson.

The casting workforce collaborated with TikTok through the audition course of, inviting TikTok customers who have been eager about being forged within the manufacturing to add a video of themselves singing any quantity from the present. The workforce then reviewed all submissions and invited these they felt might be part of the forged to take part within the formal audition course of. Over 2000 movies have been submitted and of these, 36 TikTok customers have been invited to in-person auditions. Sonny Monaghan was forged within the ensemble, and as alternate Evan (performing the function twice every week, at each matinee efficiency), because of the TikTok collaboration.

The manufacturing can also be delighted to announce its partnership with The Combine, the UK’s main digital charity for underneath 25-year-olds.  The present offers with delicate subjects, very related to younger individuals right now, and this partnership will be certain that anybody affected by the problems explored within the present is aware of the place to seek out help.

The Combine will present coaching to the forged and inventive workforce on methods to appropriately reply to queries from the general public, each on-line and offline, and equip them with the data to direct people to the correct help channels. The partnership additionally goals to create partaking and informative content material to assist elevate and empower younger individuals at a time after they want it most. This can embody assets and recommendations on important life abilities for transitioning into maturity.

Morgan Massive is Set and Costume Designer (Newsies, Sister Act), with Carrie-Anne Ingrouille as Choreographer (Six, Zoo Nation), Matt Daw as Lighting Designer (Pet Store Boys, Lorde), Tom Marshall as Sound Designer (West Facet Story, Sister Act), Ravi Deepres as Video Designer (College for Scandal, Woolf Works), Matt Smith as Musical Supervisor (Pricey Evan Hansen, My Neighbour Totoro) and Natalie Gallacher CDG for Pippa Ailion & Natalie Gallacher Casting as casting director (Imply Women, MJ The Musical, Moulin Rouge), Michelle Payne as Affiliate Director and Laura Llewellyn-Jones as Orchestral Supervisor.

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Meet Evan: an anxious highschool child who desires nothing greater than to slot in. The factor is, on his strategy to becoming in, he didn’t inform the entire reality. And now should hand over on a life he by no means dreamt he’d have. As occasions spiral and the reality comes out, Evan faces a reckoning with himself and everybody round him.

MONDAY 9 – SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2024
Nottingham Playhouse

TUESDAY 1 – SATURDAY 5 OCTOBER 2024
Leicester Curve

TUESDAY 15 – SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER 2024
Theatre Royal Brighton

TUESDAY 22 – SATURDAY 26 OCTOBER 2024
Birmingham Alexandra

TUESDAY 29 OCTOBER – SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2024
New Victoria Theatre, Woking

TUESDAY 5 – SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2024
Leeds Grand Theatre

TUESDAY 12 – SATURDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2024
Liverpool Empire

TUESDAY 19 – SATURDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2024
Sunderland Empire

TUESDAY 26 – SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2024
Oxford New Theatre

2025

TUESDAY 14 – SATURDAY 18 JANUARY 2025
Northampton Derngate

TUESDAY 21 – SATURDAY 25 JANUARY 2025
Mayflower Theatre, Southampton

TUESDAY 28 JANUARY – SATURDAY 1 FEBRUARY 2025
Milton Keynes Theatre

TUESDAY 4 – SATURDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2025
Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury

TUESDAY 11 – SATURDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2025
Bristol Hippodrome

TUESDAY 18 – SATURDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2025
Palace Theatre, Manchester

TUESDAY 25 FEBRUARY – SATURDAY 1 MARCH 2025
King’s Theatre, Glasgow

TUESDAY 4 – SATURDAY 8 MARCH 2025
His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen

TUESDAY 11 – SATURDAY 15 MARCH 2025
Grand Opera Home, Belfast

TUESDAY 18 – SATURDAY 22 MARCH 2025
Storyhouse Theatre, Chester

TUESDAY 25 – SATURDAY 29 MARCH 2025
New Wimbledon Theatre

TUESDAY 1 – SATURDAY 5 APRIL 2025
Wolverhampton Grand

TUESDAY 8 – SATURDAY 12 APRIL 2025
Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield

TUESDAY 15 – SATURDAY 19 APRIL 2025
Theatre Royal, Plymouth

TUESDAY 22 – SATURDAY 26 APRIL 2025
Hull New Theatre

TUESDAY 29 APRIL – SATURDAY 3 MAY 2025
Wales Millenium Centre

TUESDAY 13 – SATURDAY 17 MAY 2025
Theatre Royal Norwich