Ben Platt, Laura Dreyfuss, Rachel Bay Jones & More Will Return for DEAR EVAN HANSEN at Second Stage Theatre; Full Cast Announced!

Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director, Casey Reitz, Executive Director), in association with Stacey Mindich Productions, has announced complete casting and creative team for its upcoming production of the new musical, DEAR EVAN HANSEN.

The company will include several performers who appeared in the World Premiere production at Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage, featuring Ben Platt as the title character, Evan Hansen, in a performance that was called "extraordinary, bordering on heroic" by Peter Marks in the Washington Post. Also reprising their performances from the "splendid" (Marks, Washington Post) cast are Laura Dreyfuss as Zoe, Mike Faist as Connor, Rachel Bay Jones as Heidi, Will Roland as Jared, Jennifer Laura Thompson as Cynthia. New cast members John Dossett (Larry) and Kristolyn Lloyd (Alana) complete the company.

Single tickets, priced at $80, go on sale to the general public on Wednesday, February 3 at 12:00pm. The first 50 ticket buyers at the Second Stage Theatre box office will receive a complimentary Dear Evan Hansen T-Shirt. A limited number of "$30 UNDER 30" youth advance tickets are available for patrons under the age of 30, based on availability. Proof of age must be shown at the box office when picking up tickets.

Tickets and season subscriptions are available at www.2ST.com or by calling the box office at 212-246-4422. DEAR EVAN HANSEN will begin previews on Saturday, March 26th and officially open on Sunday, May 1st at Second Stage's Tony Kiser Theatre (305 West 43rd Street).

DEAR EVAN HANSEN features music and lyrics by the Tony and Emmy nominated composing team Benj Pasek& Justin Paul (Dogfight, A Christmas Story), book by Steven Levenson (Showtime's Masters of Sex), choreography by Danny Mefford (Fun Home), and direction by three-time Tony Award nominee Michael Greif(Rent, Next to Normal, Grey Gardens, If/Then). Scenic design is by David Korins, costume design by Emily Rebholz, lighting design by Japhy Weideman, sound design by Nevin Steinberg, and projection design by Peter Nigrini. The musical director is Ben Cohn and the music supervisor is Alex Lacamoire.

All his life Evan Hansen has felt invisible. To his peers, to the girl he loves, sometimes even to his own mother. But that was before he wrote the letter - that led to the incident- that started the lie - that ignited a movement - that inspired a community - and changed Evan's status from the ultimate outsider into the somebody everyone wants to know. But how long can Evan keep his secret? And at what price?

A tribute to the outsider in us all, DEAR EVAN HANSEN is about someone you know, maybe even someone you are, but more than anything, it's about discovering the person we all long to be - ourselves.

In its world premiere production at Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage, Peter Marks of The Washington Post calledDEAR EVAN HANSEN, "Entertainingly smart and radiating charm, wit and humor! This heart-piercingly lovely new musical is a trip to the exciting place that musical theater sometimes takes you, a destination of wholly unexpected impact, where characters burst into song and you, in spite of yourself, into tears." And Charles Isherwood of The New York Times called the musical, "Fresh, vibrant, and quite moving."

Photo Credit: Margot Schulman