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DEAR EVAN HANSEN broadcasts UK tour in 2024

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Jun 16, 2024 / 245 Views

Evan Walker

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.

As we speak goes to be day. And right here’s why…

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.

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Liverpool Empire

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Oxford New Theatre

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