VIDEO: DEAR EVAN HANSEN's Ben Platt Takes Stagedoor Manor's #BroadwayForOrlando Challenge

As reported on BroadwayWorld, in response to the growing popularity of the Broadway Records recording of "What the World Needs Now Is Love," which benefits the victims of the Orlando shooting massacre, the young performers of Stagedoor Manor have filmed their own video of the 1965 Burt Bacharach and Hal David hit.

They've also initiated a challenge to raise money in the fight against hate, encouraging people to post videos of themselves singing their favorite part of "What The World Needs Now Is Love" and challenge three friends to do the same, using the hashtag #BroadwayForOrlando. For each share or challenge, Stagedoor will donate $10 to the GLBT Center of Central Florida, up to $5,000, because love is love is love.

One of the first to take up the challenge is "Pitch Perfect" star Ben Platt, who will be following up his Washington D.C. and Off-Broadway success in the title role of DEAR EVAN HANSEN when the Benj Pasek, Justin Paul and Steven Levenson musical hits Broadway this season.

Ben Platt, who led the world and New York premieres of the musical, will once again star as Evan Hansen, a performance for which he recently won the 2016 Obie Award and earned nominations from the Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Platt will be joined by Laura Dreyfuss, Rachel Bay Jones, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Mike Faist,Michael Park, Will Roland and Kristolyn Lloyd.