Dear Evan Hansen (TCG Edition)
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ISBN: 1559365609 / Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, May 2017
The powerful Broadway hit about an outsider yearning to connect.
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<p style="margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Winner of the 2017 Tony Award for Best Musical</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 12.0pt 0in .0001pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">“<em><span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Dear Evan Hansen</span></span></em> lodges in your head long after you’ve seen it or heard it or read it. It feels like a pure expression from young writers at a crossroad of coming to terms with who they are and what they want to say about the world. Its honesty and truths haunt and ultimately open us up to ask the same question, no matter what our age or crossroad: What are the lies we tell ourselves?” –James Lapine (from the Foreword)</span></p><p style="margin: 12.0pt 0in .0001pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never meant to be told, a life he never dreamed could be his. Evan Hansen is about to get the one thing he’s always wanted: a chance to belong. Deeply personal and profoundly universal, <em><span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Dear Evan Hansen</span></span></em> is a groundbreaking American musical about truth, fiction, and the price we’re willing to pay for the possibility to connect.</span></p><p style="margin: 12.0pt 0in .0001pt 0in;"><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">*This publication includes the book and lyrics to the musical, as well as a foreword by James Lapine. Please note that it does not include the musical score.*</span></em></p><p style="margin: 12.0pt 0in .0001pt 0in;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Steven Levenson</span></strong><span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"> is the book writer for <em><span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Dear Evan Hansen</span></span></em>. His plays <em><span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">include If I Forget</span></span></em>, <em><span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin</span></span></em>, <em><span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Core Values</span></span></em>, <em><span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">The Language of Trees</span></span></em>, and <em><span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Seven Minutes in Heaven</span></span></em>. A graduate of Brown University, he served for three seasons as a writer and producer on Showtime’s <em><span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Master of Sex</span></span></em>.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 12.0pt 0in .0001pt 0in;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Benj Pasek & Justin Paul</span></strong><span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"> are the song-writing team behind <em><span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Dear Evan Hansen</span></span></em>. Previous musicals include <em><span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">A Christmas Story: The Musical</span></span></em>, <em><span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Dogfight</span></span></em>, <em><span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">James and the Giant Peach</span></span></em>, and <em><span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Edges.</span></span></em> Their film projects include <em><span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">La La Land</span></span></em> (for which they won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for “City of Stars,” with composer Justin Hurwitz), <em><span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Trolls</span></span></em>, <em><span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Snow White</span></span></em>, and <em><span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">The Greatest Showman</span></span></em>. Their television credits include <em><span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">The Flash</span></span></em>, <em><span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Smash</span></span></em>, and <em><span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Johnny and the Sprites</span></span></em>. Both are graduates of the University of Michigan Musical Theatre Program and members of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.</span></span></p>
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